WAN Jobs in Scotland

Wide Area Network (WAN)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for WAN skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited WAN over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 202 144 140
Rank change year-on-year -58 -4 -17
Permanent jobs citing WAN 80 86 106
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 1.20% 1.85% 1.81%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.31% 11.30% 13.37%
Number of salaries quoted 66 27 55
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,900 £23,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,500 £28,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.24% +6.25% -4.76%
75th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £55,000 £67,500 £73,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - -5.00% +4.17%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Scotland

WAN is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 650 761 793
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 9.72% 16.34% 13.55%
Number of salaries quoted 393 262 405
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,123 £27,050
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £35,233
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +6.67%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £83,650 £75,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing WAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for WAN in Scotland

WAN
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing WAN in Scotland.

Salary trend for WAN in Scotland

WAN
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing WAN in Scotland over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Salary histogram for WAN in Scotland

WAN
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WAN within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 13 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow -104 37 £50,000 +6.38% 6
Edinburgh +41 27 £35,000 +16.67% 3
Dundee - 7 £38,000 -
Aberdeenshire - 3 £28,500 - 4
East Ayrshire - 3 £29,500 - 1
Aberdeen -30 2 £70,000 - 6
Dumfries and Galloway - 2 £40,000 -
Midlothian -3 1 £35,000 -1.52% 4
WAN
UK

WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 16 (20.00%) IIS
2 8 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (8.75%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 51 (63.75%) Azure
2 30 (37.50%) AWS
3 15 (18.75%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (17.50%) Cloud Computing
4 14 (17.50%) GCP
5 13 (16.25%) IaaS
5 13 (16.25%) PaaS
6 9 (11.25%) SaaS
7 7 (8.75%) Entra ID
8 4 (5.00%) OneDrive
9 3 (3.75%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (3.75%) Amazon S3
9 3 (3.75%) Asana
9 3 (3.75%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (3.75%) MailChimp
9 3 (3.75%) Route 53
9 3 (3.75%) Serverless
9 3 (3.75%) Slack
9 3 (3.75%) Zapier
10 1 (1.25%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 42 (52.50%) LAN
2 35 (43.75%) Firewall
3 31 (38.75%) VPN
4 17 (21.25%) Wireless
5 16 (20.00%) TCP/IP
6 15 (18.75%) SD-WAN
7 12 (15.00%) VLAN
8 11 (13.75%) DHCP
8 11 (13.75%) DNS
9 10 (12.50%) IPsec
10 8 (10.00%) Spanning Tree
10 8 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
11 6 (7.50%) Cisco IOS
12 5 (6.25%) OSPF
13 4 (5.00%) WLAN
14 3 (3.75%) BGP
14 3 (3.75%) Remote Desktop
14 3 (3.75%) Structured Cabling
15 2 (2.50%) NGFW
15 2 (2.50%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (36.25%) SQL Server
2 11 (13.75%) NoSQL
3 3 (3.75%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (2.50%) DTS
Development Applications
1 1 (1.25%) JIRA
General
1 26 (32.50%) Social Skills
2 6 (7.50%) Finance
2 6 (7.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 6 (7.50%) Telecoms
3 4 (5.00%) Billing
4 3 (3.75%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.75%) Marketing
4 3 (3.75%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.50%) Banking
Job Titles
1 18 (22.50%) Analyst
1 18 (22.50%) Systems Engineer
2 11 (13.75%) Senior
2 11 (13.75%) Support Analyst
3 10 (12.50%) IT Support
3 10 (12.50%) Network Engineer
4 8 (10.00%) Network Technician
5 7 (8.75%) Cloud Engineer
5 7 (8.75%) IT Analyst
5 7 (8.75%) Technical Support
6 6 (7.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (7.50%) IT Support Analyst
7 5 (6.25%) Senior Systems Engineer
8 4 (5.00%) Network Analyst
8 4 (5.00%) Senior Support Engineer
8 4 (5.00%) Senior Technical Support
8 4 (5.00%) Senior Technical Support Engineer
8 4 (5.00%) Support Engineer
8 4 (5.00%) Technical Engineer
8 4 (5.00%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.25%) REST
1 5 (6.25%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 30 (37.50%) Data Centre
2 25 (31.25%) Public Cloud
3 16 (20.00%) Clustering
4 13 (16.25%) Replication
5 11 (13.75%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (7.50%) Onboarding
7 3 (3.75%) iPhone
7 3 (3.75%) Video Conferencing
8 2 (2.50%) IoT
8 2 (2.50%) Operational Technology
8 2 (2.50%) Virtual Team
9 1 (1.25%) CCTV
9 1 (1.25%) Cloud Native
9 1 (1.25%) Driving Licence
9 1 (1.25%) Management Information System
9 1 (1.25%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 32 (40.00%) Windows
2 23 (28.75%) Windows Server
3 17 (21.25%) Linux
4 11 (13.75%) Windows 10
5 10 (12.50%) Android
6 3 (3.75%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.25%) Apple iOS
7 1 (1.25%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 22 (27.50%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (21.25%) High Availability
4 16 (20.00%) Prototyping
5 13 (16.25%) DevOps
5 13 (16.25%) Mentoring
5 13 (16.25%) Network Virtualisation
5 13 (16.25%) Project Delivery
6 12 (15.00%) Capacity Planning
7 11 (13.75%) API Design
7 11 (13.75%) API Development
7 11 (13.75%) CI/CD
7 11 (13.75%) Continuous Delivery
7 11 (13.75%) Continuous Integration
7 11 (13.75%) ITSM
7 11 (13.75%) Performance Analysis
7 11 (13.75%) Software Testing
7 11 (13.75%) TDD
8 10 (12.50%) Customer Experience
9 8 (10.00%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (20.00%) SQL
2 11 (13.75%) Java
3 1 (1.25%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 18 (22.50%) Cisco Certification
2 16 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 15 (18.75%) CCNA
4 14 (17.50%) Degree
5 10 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (6.25%) SC Cleared
7 3 (3.75%) CCNP
7 3 (3.75%) HND
8 2 (2.50%) JNCIP
9 1 (1.25%) CCDP
9 1 (1.25%) CCIE
9 1 (1.25%) DBS Check
9 1 (1.25%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.00%) SLA
2 3 (3.75%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (3.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.50%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.25%) SOC 2
System Software
1 36 (45.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 29 (36.25%) VMware NSX
3 18 (22.50%) Active Directory
4 6 (7.50%) Hyper-V
5 3 (3.75%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.25%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (1.25%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 15 (18.75%) Ansible
2 13 (16.25%) FortiGate
2 13 (16.25%) Terraform
3 7 (8.75%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (3.75%) Autotask
5 2 (2.50%) PaperCut
5 2 (2.50%) Puppet
5 2 (2.50%) SafeCom
6 1 (1.25%) SCCM
Vendors
1 47 (58.75%) VMware
2 31 (38.75%) Cisco
3 29 (36.25%) Microsoft
4 13 (16.25%) NetApp
5 11 (13.75%) Juniper
5 11 (13.75%) Meraki
5 11 (13.75%) Palo Alto
6 6 (7.50%) ConnectWise
7 3 (3.75%) Apple
7 3 (3.75%) Facebook
7 3 (3.75%) HubSpot
7 3 (3.75%) Polycom
8 2 (2.50%) ABBYY
8 2 (2.50%) Canon
8 2 (2.50%) Equitrac
8 2 (2.50%) Fujitsu
8 2 (2.50%) Kofax
8 2 (2.50%) OpenText
8 2 (2.50%) ReadSoft
8 2 (2.50%) Xerox