The first table below looks at the demand for WAN skills in IT jobs advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WAN over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Scotland region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Wide Area Network (WAN)
Rank 106 108 98
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -10
Permanent jobs citing WAN 48 52 58
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 1.467% 1.523% 1.627%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.09% 9.683% 12.45%
Number of salaries quoted 36 37 39
Average salary £42,500 £35,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+21.42% +16.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £27,000 £18,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £45,000 £45,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All Communications & Networking
Scotland
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
397 537 466
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 12.14% 15.73% 13.08%
Number of salaries quoted 241 326 334
Average salary £42,500 £34,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+25.00% -15.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,100 £22,500 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £77,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
WAN
UK

WAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland WAN Jobs Demand Trend

WAN
Salary Trend

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

Scotland WAN Salary Trend

WAN
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing WAN across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Scotland WAN Salary Histogram

WAN
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WAN within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
Aberdeen 0 21 £42,500 +21.42% 7
Glasgow -3 8 £42,500 -5.55%
Edinburgh -16 5 £35,000 +9.37% 2
North Lanarkshire - 3 £52,500 - 4
Renfrewshire - 2 £52,500 - 1
Dundee - 2 £42,500 -
Stirling - 1 £37,500 -
West Lothian - 1 £52,500 - 1
South Lanarkshire - 1 £52,500 - 1
WAN
UK

WAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland region citing WAN 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 WAN.

1 52 (61.18%) LAN
2 41 (48.24%) Firewall
3 33 (38.82%) VPN
3 33 (38.82%) Windows
3 33 (38.82%) Cisco
4 32 (37.65%) Wireless
4 32 (37.65%) Finance
5 31 (36.47%) Microsoft
6 30 (35.29%) Cisco Certification
7 27 (31.76%) DNS
8 24 (28.24%) ITIL
9 23 (27.06%) MS Exchange
9 23 (27.06%) Active Directory
10 21 (24.71%) CCNA
10 21 (24.71%) TCP/IP
10 21 (24.71%) MPLS
11 20 (23.53%) VMware
12 19 (22.35%) CCNP
13 16 (18.82%) DHCP
13 16 (18.82%) Cisco ASA
14 15 (17.65%) Degree
14 15 (17.65%) Disaster Recovery
14 15 (17.65%) HP
15 14 (16.47%) Windows Server 2008
16 13 (15.29%) Network Security
16 13 (15.29%) Exchange Server 2010
16 13 (15.29%) Linux
16 13 (15.29%) SQL Server
17 12 (14.12%) Dell
17 12 (14.12%) Backup Exec

WAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland region citing WAN 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 WAN. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (5.882%) SOAP
2 2 (2.353%) HTML
2 2 (2.353%) CSS
2 2 (2.353%) XML
Application Platforms
1 23 (27.06%) MS Exchange
2 13 (15.29%) Exchange Server 2010
3 11 (12.94%) Exchange Server 2007
4 9 (10.59%) Exchange Server 2003
5 4 (4.706%) Lync
5 4 (4.706%) IIS
6 2 (2.353%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 1 (1.176%) IBM Notes
7 1 (1.176%) Apache
7 1 (1.176%) Community Server
Applications
1 9 (10.59%) MS Excel
2 8 (9.412%) MS Office
3 1 (1.176%) Spreadsheet
Communications & Networking
1 52 (61.18%) LAN
2 41 (48.24%) Firewall
3 33 (38.82%) VPN
4 32 (37.65%) Wireless
5 27 (31.76%) DNS
6 21 (24.71%) TCP/IP
6 21 (24.71%) MPLS
7 16 (18.82%) DHCP
7 16 (18.82%) Cisco ASA
8 13 (15.29%) Network Security
9 11 (12.94%) IPsec
9 11 (12.94%) OSPF
9 11 (12.94%) EIGRP
9 11 (12.94%) SNMP
9 11 (12.94%) VoIP
10 10 (11.76%) SAN
11 9 (10.59%) Cisco PIX
11 9 (10.59%) WLAN
12 8 (9.412%) Ethernet
12 8 (9.412%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (15.29%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.353%) PostgreSQL
General
1 32 (37.65%) Finance
2 11 (12.94%) Telecoms
3 2 (2.353%) Manufacturing
3 2 (2.353%) Advertising
4 1 (1.176%) French Language
Job Titles
1 21 (24.71%) Support Engineer
2 16 (18.82%) Network Engineer
3 14 (16.47%) Solutions Architect
3 14 (16.47%) Architect
4 11 (12.94%) Analyst
4 11 (12.94%) Consultant
5 10 (11.76%) Network Support Engineer
5 10 (11.76%) Network Support
6 7 (8.235%) Infrastructure Manager
6 7 (8.235%) Integration Engineer
7 6 (7.059%) Infrastructure Analyst
8 5 (5.882%) Cisco Engineer
8 5 (5.882%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 4 (4.706%) IT Infrastructure Manager
9 4 (4.706%) Security Analyst
9 4 (4.706%) Junior
10 3 (3.529%) Network Consultant
10 3 (3.529%) Support Analyst
10 3 (3.529%) Technical Consultant
10 3 (3.529%) Technical Manager
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.412%) Client/Server
2 5 (5.882%) Thin Client
2 5 (5.882%) Fat Client
3 4 (4.706%) Enterprise Storage
3 4 (4.706%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.529%) Blackberry
4 3 (3.529%) Computer Science
4 3 (3.529%) Cryptography
5 2 (2.353%) Data Extraction
6 1 (1.176%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 33 (38.82%) Windows
2 14 (16.47%) Windows Server 2008
3 13 (15.29%) Linux
4 11 (12.94%) Windows Server 2003
5 9 (10.59%) UNIX
6 4 (4.706%) Windows 7
7 2 (2.353%) Windows XP
8 1 (1.176%) AIX
8 1 (1.176%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (28.24%) ITIL
2 15 (17.65%) Disaster Recovery
3 12 (14.12%) Financial Modelling
4 11 (12.94%) Business Continuity
5 10 (11.76%) Network Design
6 7 (8.235%) Security Management
7 6 (7.059%) Project Management
7 6 (7.059%) Service Delivery
8 5 (5.882%) Load Balancing
8 5 (5.882%) Network Management
9 4 (4.706%) Network Architecture
9 4 (4.706%) Operations Management
9 4 (4.706%) Risk Management
10 3 (3.529%) BCP
10 3 (3.529%) Service Management
10 3 (3.529%) Information Management
10 3 (3.529%) Vulnerability Assessment
10 3 (3.529%) Change Control
10 3 (3.529%) SIEM
10 3 (3.529%) ITIL V3
Programming Languages
1 3 (3.529%) SQL
2 2 (2.353%) VBScript
2 2 (2.353%) Java
2 2 (2.353%) Perl
Qualifications
1 30 (35.29%) Cisco Certification
2 21 (24.71%) CCNA
3 19 (22.35%) CCNP
4 15 (17.65%) Degree
5 11 (12.94%) CCDA
6 9 (10.59%) CCSP
7 6 (7.059%) CCVP
7 6 (7.059%) CCIE
7 6 (7.059%) CCDP
7 6 (7.059%) CCIP
8 3 (3.529%) SSCP
8 3 (3.529%) GIAC
8 3 (3.529%) CISSP
8 3 (3.529%) CEH
9 1 (1.176%) CCA
9 1 (1.176%) Citrix Certification
9 1 (1.176%) MCTS
9 1 (1.176%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.353%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (27.06%) Active Directory
2 11 (12.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (8.235%) vSphere
4 4 (4.706%) VMware Workstation
5 3 (3.529%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (2.353%) Hyper-V
6 2 (2.353%) Terminal Services
7 1 (1.176%) VMware ESX
7 1 (1.176%) XenApp
7 1 (1.176%) XenServer
7 1 (1.176%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 12 (14.12%) Backup Exec
2 4 (4.706%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
3 2 (2.353%) WSUS
4 1 (1.176%) SCCM
Vendors
1 33 (38.82%) Cisco
2 31 (36.47%) Microsoft
3 20 (23.53%) VMware
4 15 (17.65%) HP
5 12 (14.12%) Dell
6 11 (12.94%) Riverbed
7 9 (10.59%) Citrix
8 8 (9.412%) Symantec
8 8 (9.412%) Juniper
9 6 (7.059%) EMC
10 4 (4.706%) NetApp
11 3 (3.529%) Oracle
11 3 (3.529%) Twitter
12 1 (1.176%) Lotus
12 1 (1.176%) Sage
12 1 (1.176%) Avaya
12 1 (1.176%) Intel
12 1 (1.176%) Draytek
12 1 (1.176%) Aruba
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire
WAN/LAN knowledge - Strong Microsoft background - Working in an ITIL/SLA environment - Accreditations in Microsoft, Cisco, Citrix, VMware, would be advantageous 37.5 hours a week - shift rotas...
Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Salary: 25,000 - 40,000
Posted: 13 June 2013
Edinburgh, Scotland
Infrastructure / Systems Engineer - Edinburgh- £35,000- £40,000 + Benefits Support / Systems Administrator/ Infrastructure Engineer / Server Engineer/ Systems Administrator / Support Engineer / Linux and Windows Systems Engineer/ Systems Engineer required...
Cathcart Associates
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 11 June 2013
Aberdeen, Scotland
Manage both the Server and Networking teams ** Develop and maintain the design documents, component guidelines, and standards for operating systems, servers, storage, and network technologies across various locations **...
Cathcart Associates
Salary: £54000 - £61000 per annum + + Fantastic Benefits
Posted: 31 May 2013
Edinburgh, Scotland
in a variety of VPN and WAN configurations either on site or remotely.*You will be expected to install, configure and support virtual servers using VMWare software.*You...
Salary: £30000 - £35000 per annum
Posted: 3 June 2013
Bellshill, Lanarkshire
The Solutions Architect has a key position within the Commercial Team, responsible for the design and pricing of often complex, large-scale Wide Area Network and value-added...
Ampersand Consulting
Salary: £45000 - £60000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 18 June 2013
Bellshill, North Lanarkshire, Glasgow, Motherwell,...
Networx Recruitment
Salary: £45,000 - £60,000 (depending on skills) + Benefits
Posted: 30 May 2013
Lanarkshire
Change Recruitment Group
Salary: £45000 - £60000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 18 June 2013
Bellshill, Lanarkshire
networx
Salary: Salary circa £70,000 + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 18 June 2013
Motherwell, Lanarkshire
Ashdown IT
Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum
Posted: 18 June 2013
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