Lua
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Lua skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Lua over the 6 months to 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 849 980 1119
Rank change year-on-year +131 +139 -231
Permanent jobs citing Lua 47 8 87
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.048% 0.008% 0.056%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.14% 0.018% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 3 7 34
10th Percentile - - £41,125
25th Percentile £62,500 £37,000 £44,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £39,000 £77,000
Median % change year-on-year +92.31% -49.35% +33.91%
75th Percentile £95,625 £54,750 £80,500
90th Percentile £100,500 £86,950 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £42,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +76.47% -10.53% +18.75%

All Programming Languages
UK

Lua is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 33,278 45,076 83,930
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.79% 43.37% 53.85%
Number of salaries quoted 25,047 28,788 44,148
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,635 £55,000 £53,750
% change year-on-year -2.48% +2.33% +7.50%

Lua
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Lua as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Lua in the UK

Lua
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lua.

Salary trend for Lua in the UK

Lua
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lua over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Lua in the UK

Lua
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lua within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +165 45 £75,000 +92.31% 2
UK excluding London +17 41 £75,000 +76.47% 2
South East - 36 £75,000 -
Work from Home +88 9 £97,500 +87.50%
London +125 4 £97,500 +150.00%
South West - 4 - -
East Midlands - 1 - -
Midlands - 1 - -

Lua
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 36 (76.60%) Camunda
1 36 (76.60%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 36 (76.60%) IBM Cloud
1 36 (76.60%) OpenShift
2 6 (12.77%) AWS
3 4 (8.51%) Azure
3 4 (8.51%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (76.60%) MongoDB
1 36 (76.60%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (4.26%) GCC
General
1 40 (85.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 40 (85.11%) Public Sector
2 4 (8.51%) Aerospace
3 3 (6.38%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 36 (76.60%) Full Stack Engineer
2 10 (21.28%) Senior
3 4 (8.51%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (8.51%) Senior DevOps
3 4 (8.51%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 3 (6.38%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (6.38%) Embedded Engineer
5 2 (4.26%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (4.26%) Cloud Security Engineer
5 2 (4.26%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
5 2 (4.26%) Firmware Engineer
5 2 (4.26%) Security Engineer
5 2 (4.26%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 2 (4.26%) Senior Embedded Engineer
5 2 (4.26%) Senior Firmware Engineer
5 2 (4.26%) Senior Security Engineer
6 1 (2.13%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 1 (2.13%) Senior Consultant
6 1 (2.13%) Senior Security Consultant
6 1 (2.13%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (76.60%) KeystoneJS
1 36 (76.60%) Node.js
1 36 (76.60%) React
1 36 (76.60%) Swagger
2 4 (8.51%) JSON
2 4 (8.51%) JWT
2 4 (8.51%) OAuth
2 4 (8.51%) RESTful
2 4 (8.51%) XML
3 2 (4.26%) Middleware
3 2 (4.26%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 36 (76.60%) Blockchain
1 36 (76.60%) e-Learning
1 36 (76.60%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (8.51%) PKI
3 2 (4.26%) IoT
3 2 (4.26%) Public Cloud
3 2 (4.26%) Robotics
3 2 (4.26%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (12.77%) Linux
1 6 (12.77%) Windows
2 2 (4.26%) Android
2 2 (4.26%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (76.60%) Artificial Intelligence
1 36 (76.60%) Coaching
1 36 (76.60%) Customer Service
1 36 (76.60%) Full Stack Development
1 36 (76.60%) Mentoring
1 36 (76.60%) SDLC
2 34 (72.34%) Technology Transformation
3 4 (8.51%) Configuration Management
3 4 (8.51%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (8.51%) DevOps
3 4 (8.51%) Identity Access Management
3 4 (8.51%) Security Architecture
3 4 (8.51%) Threat Modelling
4 2 (4.26%) Agile
4 2 (4.26%) Cryptography
4 2 (4.26%) Embedded Software Development
4 2 (4.26%) Functional Testing
4 2 (4.26%) Fuzz Testing
4 2 (4.26%) Load Balancing
4 2 (4.26%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 42 (89.36%) JavaScript
2 40 (85.11%) Java
3 11 (23.40%) Python
4 8 (17.02%) Ruby
5 4 (8.51%) C#
5 4 (8.51%) Go
5 4 (8.51%) Perl
5 4 (8.51%) PowerShell
5 4 (8.51%) Rust
5 4 (8.51%) Tcl
6 3 (6.38%) C
7 2 (4.26%) C++
7 2 (4.26%) Dart
7 2 (4.26%) Kotlin
7 2 (4.26%) Objective-C
7 2 (4.26%) PHP
7 2 (4.26%) Swift
Qualifications
1 4 (8.51%) DV Cleared
1 4 (8.51%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.38%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.13%) JTAG
System Software
1 36 (76.60%) Docker
2 4 (8.51%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (6.38%) Embedded Firmware
3 3 (6.38%) Firmware
4 2 (4.26%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (8.51%) Ansible
1 4 (8.51%) Progress Chef
1 4 (8.51%) Puppet
1 4 (8.51%) Single Sign-On
1 4 (8.51%) vRealize
Vendors
1 36 (76.60%) IBM
1 36 (76.60%) Oracle
1 36 (76.60%) Red Hat
2 4 (8.51%) Cisco
2 4 (8.51%) SaltStack
2 4 (8.51%) ServiceNow
2 4 (8.51%) VMware