The first table below looks at the demand for LAN skills in IT jobs advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited LAN over the 3 months to 17 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 Edinburgh region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Local Area Network (LAN)
Rank 89 66 78
Rank change year-on-year
-23 +12
Permanent jobs citing LAN 3 27 23
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.284% 2.015% 1.492%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.459% 16.17% 13.86%
Number of salaries quoted 1 21 21
Average salary £35,000 £32,500 £75,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.69% -56.66%
UK excluding London average salary £37,250 £38,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-1.97% +8.57%
All Communications & Networking
Edinburgh
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
122 167 166
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 11.54% 12.46% 10.77%
Number of salaries quoted 68 105 108
Average salary £35,000 £34,000 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.94% -28.42%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £27,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £77,500 £43,500
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
LAN
Scotland

LAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh LAN Salary Trend

LAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh 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 15 (83.33%) DNS
2 14 (77.78%) DHCP
2 14 (77.78%) WAN
3 11 (61.11%) Windows
3 11 (61.11%) TCP/IP
4 8 (44.44%) Dell
4 8 (44.44%) Network Architecture
5 7 (38.89%) Active Directory
5 7 (38.89%) Firewall
5 7 (38.89%) VMware
6 6 (33.33%) Internet
6 6 (33.33%) OSPF
6 6 (33.33%) EIGRP
7 5 (27.78%) Project Management
7 5 (27.78%) BCP
7 5 (27.78%) BGP-4
7 5 (27.78%) SAN
7 5 (27.78%) Business Continuity
7 5 (27.78%) Network Design
7 5 (27.78%) Wireless
7 5 (27.78%) IPsec
7 5 (27.78%) HP
7 5 (27.78%) IKE
7 5 (27.78%) SNMP
7 5 (27.78%) IPv4
7 5 (27.78%) IPv6
7 5 (27.78%) MS Exchange
7 5 (27.78%) SQL Server
7 5 (27.78%) Network Management
7 5 (27.78%) Unified Communications

LAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh 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 5 (27.78%) MS Exchange
1 5 (27.78%) Exchange Server 2007
2 3 (16.67%) SharePoint 2010
2 3 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2010
2 3 (16.67%) SharePoint
2 3 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2003
3 2 (11.11%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 2 (11.11%) IIS
4 1 (5.556%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 15 (83.33%) DNS
2 14 (77.78%) WAN
2 14 (77.78%) DHCP
3 11 (61.11%) TCP/IP
4 7 (38.89%) Firewall
5 6 (33.33%) Internet
5 6 (33.33%) OSPF
5 6 (33.33%) EIGRP
6 5 (27.78%) Unified Communications
6 5 (27.78%) BGP-4
6 5 (27.78%) Wireless
6 5 (27.78%) IPsec
6 5 (27.78%) IKE
6 5 (27.78%) SNMP
6 5 (27.78%) IPv4
6 5 (27.78%) IPv6
6 5 (27.78%) SAN
7 2 (11.11%) VLAN
7 2 (11.11%) NAS
8 1 (5.556%) Cisco PIX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (27.78%) SQL Server
2 3 (16.67%) SQL Server 2005
2 3 (16.67%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (11.11%) DB2
3 2 (11.11%) MySQL
General
1 1 (5.556%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Consultant
1 5 (27.78%) Data Consultant
2 4 (22.22%) Desktop Support
2 4 (22.22%) Administrator
2 4 (22.22%) Field Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Systems Administrator
2 4 (22.22%) Server Support
2 4 (22.22%) Systems Support
3 3 (16.67%) Support Analyst
3 3 (16.67%) Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Customer Service Representative
4 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Network Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Account Manager
5 1 (5.556%) IT Support
5 1 (5.556%) IT Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Blackberry
1 3 (16.67%) EqualLogic
Operating Systems
1 11 (61.11%) Windows
2 4 (22.22%) Linux
2 4 (22.22%) Windows Server 2003
2 4 (22.22%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (16.67%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) Network Architecture
2 5 (27.78%) Network Management
2 5 (27.78%) BCP
2 5 (27.78%) Project Management
2 5 (27.78%) Business Continuity
2 5 (27.78%) Network Design
3 3 (16.67%) RDF
4 1 (5.556%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (5.556%) Load Balancing
4 1 (5.556%) Fault Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) SQL
1 2 (11.11%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) MCP
1 4 (22.22%) MCSE
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (5.556%) CCNP
3 1 (5.556%) CCNA
System Software
1 7 (38.89%) Active Directory
2 4 (22.22%) Terminal Server
2 4 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (16.67%) vSphere
Vendors
1 8 (44.44%) Dell
2 7 (38.89%) VMware
3 5 (27.78%) HP
4 3 (16.67%) Cisco
4 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
5 2 (11.11%) Oracle
5 2 (11.11%) EMC
6 1 (5.556%) Citrix
6 1 (5.556%) Avaya
6 1 (5.556%) Veritas