LAN Jobs in Scotland

Local Area Network (LAN)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring LAN skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited LAN over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 205 139 152
Rank change year-on-year -66 +13 -24
Permanent jobs citing LAN 47 73 101
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.82% 1.92% 1.66%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.11% 11.99% 13.27%
Number of salaries quoted 36 22 50
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,818 £25,900
25th Percentile £31,250 £37,063 £29,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,250 £40,750 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.23% +1.88% +2.56%
75th Percentile £55,000 £46,750 £50,000
90th Percentile £64,688 £55,250 £62,625
UK median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £48,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -7.22% +7.78%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 516 609 761
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 9.06% 16.05% 12.50%
Number of salaries quoted 314 253 376
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £35,813 £35,000 £35,433
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +6.67%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £70,175 £80,000 £79,000
UK median annual salary £49,000 £51,573 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.99% -1.77% +5.00%

LAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for LAN in Scotland

LAN
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for LAN in Scotland

LAN
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing LAN in Scotland over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for LAN in Scotland

LAN
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing LAN within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 26 July 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
Edinburgh +50 23 £45,000 +16.88% 1
Dundee - 6 £42,500 -
Glasgow -87 4 £52,500 +23.53% 2
Aberdeenshire - 3 £28,500 -
Lanarkshire - 3 £50,000 - 1
East Ayrshire - 3 £29,500 -
West Lothian - 2 - - 2
Perth and Kinross -2 1 £59,608 +40.25%
Midlothian -2 1 £35,000 -1.52% 2
LAN
UK

LAN
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 4 (8.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (6.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (6.38%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (21.28%) Azure
1 10 (21.28%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (19.15%) SaaS
3 6 (12.77%) AWS
4 5 (10.64%) Cloud Computing
4 5 (10.64%) Entra ID
5 3 (6.38%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (6.38%) Amazon S3
5 3 (6.38%) Asana
5 3 (6.38%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (6.38%) MailChimp
5 3 (6.38%) Route 53
5 3 (6.38%) Serverless
5 3 (6.38%) Slack
5 3 (6.38%) Zapier
6 1 (2.13%) GCP
6 1 (2.13%) Google Workspace
6 1 (2.13%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 47 (100.00%) WAN
2 26 (55.32%) Firewall
3 24 (51.06%) Wireless
4 22 (46.81%) VPN
5 12 (25.53%) DNS
5 12 (25.53%) TCP/IP
6 11 (23.40%) IPsec
7 10 (21.28%) DHCP
8 9 (19.15%) Wi-Fi
9 7 (14.89%) Spanning Tree
10 6 (12.77%) Network Security
10 6 (12.77%) OSPF
10 6 (12.77%) VLAN
11 5 (10.64%) Cisco IOS
12 4 (8.51%) BGP
12 4 (8.51%) SAN
13 3 (6.38%) Remote Desktop
13 3 (6.38%) WLAN
14 2 (4.26%) NGFW
14 2 (4.26%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.38%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (2.13%) JIRA
General
1 16 (34.04%) Social Skills
2 7 (14.89%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (14.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 6 (12.77%) Finance
4 4 (8.51%) Manufacturing
5 3 (6.38%) Marketing
5 3 (6.38%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.26%) Advertising
6 2 (4.26%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (4.26%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (36.17%) Network Engineer
2 9 (19.15%) Analyst
3 7 (14.89%) IT Support
3 7 (14.89%) Network Technician
4 6 (12.77%) Support Analyst
5 5 (10.64%) Systems Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) IT Analyst
6 3 (6.38%) IT Support Analyst
6 3 (6.38%) IT Support Specialist
6 3 (6.38%) Network Analyst
6 3 (6.38%) Network Systems Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Senior
6 3 (6.38%) Senior Network Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Service Desk Manager
6 3 (6.38%) Service Manager
6 3 (6.38%) Support Specialist
6 3 (6.38%) Technical Analyst
6 3 (6.38%) Technical Support
6 3 (6.38%) Technical Support Analyst
7 2 (4.26%) Network Support
Miscellaneous
1 16 (34.04%) Data Centre
2 4 (8.51%) Management Information System
2 4 (8.51%) Onboarding
3 3 (6.38%) Operational Technology
4 2 (4.26%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (4.26%) PKI
4 2 (4.26%) SCADA
4 2 (4.26%) Virtual Team
5 1 (2.13%) CCTV
5 1 (2.13%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.13%) Driving Licence
5 1 (2.13%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (29.79%) Windows
2 5 (10.64%) Windows Server
3 4 (8.51%) Android
3 4 (8.51%) Linux
3 4 (8.51%) Windows 10
4 3 (6.38%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (2.13%) Apple iOS
5 1 (2.13%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (27.66%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (21.28%) Computer Science
3 9 (19.15%) Continuous Improvement
3 9 (19.15%) Customer Experience
3 9 (19.15%) Network Design
3 9 (19.15%) Network Monitoring
4 8 (17.02%) Disaster Recovery
4 8 (17.02%) ITSM
4 8 (17.02%) Patch Management
5 7 (14.89%) Customer Service
6 6 (12.77%) Incident Response
7 5 (10.64%) Collaborative Culture
7 5 (10.64%) Proactive Monitoring
7 5 (10.64%) Root Cause Analysis
8 4 (8.51%) Agile
8 4 (8.51%) Stakeholder Management
9 3 (6.38%) Cyber Resilience
9 3 (6.38%) Fintech
9 3 (6.38%) Innovative Thinking
9 3 (6.38%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 4 (8.51%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (29.79%) Degree
2 8 (17.02%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (12.77%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (6.38%) HND
5 2 (4.26%) CCIE
5 2 (4.26%) CCNP
5 2 (4.26%) JNCIP
5 2 (4.26%) Master's Degree
5 2 (4.26%) MBA
5 2 (4.26%) SC Cleared
5 2 (4.26%) Security Cleared
6 1 (2.13%) CCNA
6 1 (2.13%) DBS Check
6 1 (2.13%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.38%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 18 (38.30%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (17.02%) Active Directory
3 6 (12.77%) Hyper-V
4 3 (6.38%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (4.26%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (2.13%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (6.38%) Autotask
2 2 (4.26%) Ansible
2 2 (4.26%) Puppet
3 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (2.13%) SCCM
Vendors
1 18 (38.30%) VMware
2 17 (36.17%) Cisco
3 11 (23.40%) Meraki
4 10 (21.28%) Juniper
4 10 (21.28%) Palo Alto
5 8 (17.02%) Microsoft
6 3 (6.38%) Apple
6 3 (6.38%) Facebook
6 3 (6.38%) HubSpot
7 2 (4.26%) ConnectWise
8 1 (2.13%) Aruba
8 1 (2.13%) Atlassian
8 1 (2.13%) Google