Lua Contracts in England

Lua
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Lua skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Lua over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 483 534 639
Rank change year-on-year +51 +105 +135
Contract jobs citing Lua 2 8 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.008% 0.022% 0.028%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.024% 0.073% 0.079%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 11
10th Percentile £429 - £470
25th Percentile £436 £325 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £350 £510
Median % change year-on-year +33.93% -31.37% +20.00%
75th Percentile £498 £400 £517
90th Percentile £503 £475 £519
UK median daily rate £469 £350 £510
% change year-on-year +33.93% -31.37% +20.00%

All Programming Languages
England

Lua falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 8,221 10,920 17,806
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.76% 29.36% 35.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,687 7,931 13,003
10th Percentile £363 £350 £388
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £565
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
75th Percentile £650 £652 £688
90th Percentile £788 £775 £798
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 441 430
10th Percentile £25.25 £35.52 £26.24
25th Percentile £37.65 £48.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £61.84
Median % change year-on-year +0.40% +1.07% +23.68%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%

Lua
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Lua in England

Lua
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Lua in England.

Daily rate trend for Lua in England

Lua
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Lua in England.

Hourly rate trend for Lua in England

Lua
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lua within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +32 2 £469 +33.93% 2
Lua
UK

Lua
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon MSK
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Step Functions
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (100.00%) DynamoDB
1 2 (100.00%) Parquet
General
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Avro
1 2 (100.00%) JSON
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Business Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) Predictive Modelling
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) Perl
1 2 (100.00%) PHP
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared