Lua Contracts in London

Lua
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 351 383 479
Rank change year-on-year +32 +96 +117
Contract jobs citing Lua 2 8 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.016% 0.045% 0.052%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.040% 0.12% 0.13%
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% -18.40%
75th Percentile £498 £400 £517
90th Percentile £503 £475 £519
England median daily rate £469 £350 £510
% change year-on-year +33.93% -31.37% +20.00%

All Programming Languages
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,959 6,430 11,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 39.52% 36.06% 40.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,479 4,906 8,206
10th Percentile £380 £380 £413
25th Percentile £449 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £712 £700 £738
90th Percentile £825 £825 £825
England median daily rate £525 £540 £565
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 57 85
10th Percentile £29.07 £23.80 £34.55
25th Percentile £35.00 £36.25 £49.25
Median hourly rate £44.50 £50.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.88% -12.17% +15.00%
75th Percentile £60.81 £61.75 £75.00
90th Percentile £69.38 £70.75 £83.45
England median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £61.84
% change year-on-year +0.40% +1.07% +23.68%

Lua
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lua in London

Lua
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Lua in London

Lua
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lua within the London 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
South London +7 2 £469 +4.17%
Lua
England

Lua
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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