Searches for squarks and gluinos at the LHC

Despite the absence of experimental evidence, weak scale supersymmetry remains one of the best motivated and studied Standard Model extensions. This talk summarises recent LHC results on searches for supersymmetric squarks and gluinos, including third generation squarks produced directly or via decay of gluinos. The searches involved final states containing jets (possibly identified as coming from b-quarks), missing transverse momentum with and without light leptons, taus or photons. Sensitivity projections for the data that will be collected in 2015 are also presented.