LAN Job Trends in Glasgow

Local Area Network (LAN)
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring LAN skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 59 120
Rank change year-on-year +18 +61 -29
Permanent jobs citing LAN 11 10 9
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 1.64% 1.44% 0.69%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 17.19% 16.13% 5.73%
Number of salaries quoted 7 9 8
10th Percentile - £30,950 £33,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,307 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,000 £40,000 £38,250
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +4.58% -4.73%
75th Percentile £39,750 £50,000 £50,063
90th Percentile £63,500 £82,500 £54,375
Scotland median annual salary £33,500 £40,250 £40,000
% change year-on-year -16.77% +0.63% +8.11%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Glasgow

LAN falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Glasgow.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 64 62 157
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 9.55% 8.95% 11.96%
Number of salaries quoted 43 32 117
10th Percentile - £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £25,087 £32,202 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £37,000 £65,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £67,750 £68,750 £66,000
Scotland median annual salary £30,500 £47,500 £28,000
% change year-on-year -35.79% +69.64% -44.00%

LAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing LAN relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

LAN job vacancy trend in Glasgow

LAN
Salary Trend in Glasgow

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing LAN.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing LAN

LAN
Salary Histogram in Glasgow

Salary distribution for jobs citing LAN in Glasgow over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for LAN in Glasgow

LAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) Azure
1 2 (18.18%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 11 (100.00%) WAN
2 4 (36.36%) Firewall
3 3 (27.27%) SD-WAN
3 3 (27.27%) VPN
4 2 (18.18%) MPLS
4 2 (18.18%) Network Security
5 1 (9.09%) DHCP
5 1 (9.09%) DNS
5 1 (9.09%) VLAN
5 1 (9.09%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (9.09%) Wireless
General
1 5 (45.45%) Telecoms
2 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) CCTV Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Network Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Network Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) IT Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Network Manager
Miscellaneous
1 6 (54.55%) Driving Licence
2 5 (45.45%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
1 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Preventative Maintenance
2 4 (36.36%) Cloud Security
3 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (27.27%) Service Delivery
4 2 (18.18%) Collaborative Culture
4 2 (18.18%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (18.18%) Identity Management
4 2 (18.18%) ITIL
4 2 (18.18%) Security Architecture
4 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (9.09%) Change Control
5 1 (9.09%) Contract Negotiation
5 1 (9.09%) High Availability
5 1 (9.09%) Incident Response
5 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Management
5 1 (9.09%) Line Management
5 1 (9.09%) Process Improvement
5 1 (9.09%) Project Delivery
5 1 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 9 (81.82%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (45.45%) CCNA
3 4 (36.36%) CCIE
4 2 (18.18%) CCNP
4 2 (18.18%) Degree
4 2 (18.18%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Active Directory
2 1 (9.09%) Hyper-V
2 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Cisco
2 1 (9.09%) CheckPoint
2 1 (9.09%) Fortinet
2 1 (9.09%) Juniper
2 1 (9.09%) VMware