The first table below looks at the demand for LAN skills in IT jobs advertised for the Aberdeen region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited LAN over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Communications & Networking category for the Aberdeen region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Local Area Network (LAN)
Rank 32 36 35
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -1
Permanent jobs citing LAN 14 13 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Aberdeen 4.118% 3.155% 1.465%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 26.42% 15.85% 8.511%
Number of salaries quoted 7 7 4
Average salary £42,500 £31,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+37.09% -17.33%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £38,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-1.31% +8.57%
All Communications & Networking
Aberdeen
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
53 82 47
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Aberdeen 15.59% 19.90% 17.22%
Number of salaries quoted 34 70 42
Average salary £35,000 £34,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.94% -24.44%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,200 £20,300 £20,550
10% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £57,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
LAN
Scotland

LAN
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing LAN across the Aberdeen region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

Aberdeen LAN Jobs Demand Trend

LAN
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing LAN across the Aberdeen region.

Aberdeen LAN Salary Trend

LAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Aberdeen region citing LAN also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited LAN.

1 16 (88.89%) WAN
2 12 (66.67%) Cisco
3 11 (61.11%) ITIL
3 11 (61.11%) Wireless
4 10 (55.56%) VPN
5 8 (44.44%) CCNP
5 8 (44.44%) CCNA
5 8 (44.44%) Cisco Certification
5 8 (44.44%) Firewall
5 8 (44.44%) VMware
5 8 (44.44%) Riverbed
6 7 (38.89%) Network Security
6 7 (38.89%) VMware Infrastructure
6 7 (38.89%) CCDA
6 7 (38.89%) Microsoft
7 6 (33.33%) Active Directory
7 6 (33.33%) MS Excel
7 6 (33.33%) MS Exchange
7 6 (33.33%) VoIP
7 6 (33.33%) Citrix
7 6 (33.33%) Degree
7 6 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
8 5 (27.78%) SAN
8 5 (27.78%) Windows
9 4 (22.22%) SQL Server
9 4 (22.22%) NetApp
9 4 (22.22%) Thin Client
9 4 (22.22%) EMC
9 4 (22.22%) Service Delivery
9 4 (22.22%) Security Management

LAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Aberdeen region citing LAN also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited LAN. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 6 (33.33%) MS Exchange
2 4 (22.22%) Lync
2 4 (22.22%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 6 (33.33%) MS Excel
2 1 (5.556%) MS PowerPoint
2 1 (5.556%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 16 (88.89%) WAN
2 11 (61.11%) Wireless
3 10 (55.56%) VPN
4 8 (44.44%) Firewall
5 7 (38.89%) Network Security
6 6 (33.33%) VoIP
7 5 (27.78%) SAN
8 4 (22.22%) NetScaler
9 3 (16.67%) Cisco ASA
10 1 (5.556%) NAS
10 1 (5.556%) Internet
10 1 (5.556%) MPLS
10 1 (5.556%) BGP
10 1 (5.556%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (22.22%) Finance
2 2 (11.11%) Telecoms
3 1 (5.556%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Network Engineer
1 7 (38.89%) Support Engineer
2 6 (33.33%) Analyst
2 6 (33.33%) Network Support
2 6 (33.33%) Network Support Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 3 (16.67%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Cisco Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Cisco Support
5 2 (11.11%) Cisco Support Engineer
6 1 (5.556%) Infrastructure Team Leader
6 1 (5.556%) Windows Technical Consultant
6 1 (5.556%) Deskside Support
6 1 (5.556%) Team Leader
6 1 (5.556%) Consultant
6 1 (5.556%) Technical Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Thin Client
1 4 (22.22%) Fat Client
1 4 (22.22%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (5.556%) iPad
2 1 (5.556%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (27.78%) Windows
2 1 (5.556%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (61.11%) ITIL
2 6 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (22.22%) Service Delivery
3 4 (22.22%) Security Management
3 4 (22.22%) Load Balancing
4 3 (16.67%) Change Control
4 3 (16.67%) Capacity Management
4 3 (16.67%) Service Management
5 2 (11.11%) Resource Management
6 1 (5.556%) Network Architecture
6 1 (5.556%) Business Transformation
6 1 (5.556%) User Acceptance Testing
6 1 (5.556%) Logistics
6 1 (5.556%) Project Management
Qualifications
1 8 (44.44%) CCNP
1 8 (44.44%) CCNA
1 8 (44.44%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (38.89%) CCDA
3 6 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.556%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (38.89%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 4 (22.22%) VMware Workstation
3 4 (22.22%) vSphere
4 1 (5.556%) Hyper-V
4 1 (5.556%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) Backup Exec
2 2 (11.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 12 (66.67%) Cisco
2 8 (44.44%) VMware
2 8 (44.44%) Riverbed
3 7 (38.89%) Microsoft
4 6 (33.33%) Citrix
5 4 (22.22%) NetApp
5 4 (22.22%) EMC
6 2 (11.11%) Twitter
7 1 (5.556%) Iron Mountain
7 1 (5.556%) Aruba
7 1 (5.556%) F5
7 1 (5.556%) Blue Coat
7 1 (5.556%) Juniper
7 1 (5.556%) HP
7 1 (5.556%) Dell