Searches for supersymmetry are a key element of the research programme at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. The ATLAS and CMS collaborations have performed a large set of direct searches for supersymmetry using proton-proton collision data at centre-of-mass energies ranging from 7 to 13 TeV. In this document we present a selection of these analyses, giving emphasis to the results obtained at $\sqrt{s} = 13$ TeV and, more specifically, based on data recorded in the first part of 2016.