LAN Job Trends in Scotland

Local Area Network (LAN)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring LAN skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 111 168
Rank change year-on-year +27 +57 -2
Permanent jobs citing LAN 58 30 23
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 2.11% 1.14% 0.75%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 18.83% 9.38% 4.27%
Number of salaries quoted 32 27 17
10th Percentile - £31,250 £34,500
25th Percentile £32,750 £33,154 £35,335
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,500 £40,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.28% +1.25% +8.11%
75th Percentile £55,250 £52,500 £47,500
90th Percentile £80,900 £53,800 £67,400
UK median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -

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 308 320 539
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 11.20% 12.12% 17.48%
Number of salaries quoted 192 127 465
10th Percentile £25,087 £30,000 -
25th Percentile £25,375 £33,750 £25,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £47,500 £28,000
Median % change year-on-year -35.79% +69.64% -43.15%
75th Percentile £45,563 £66,250 £52,500
90th Percentile £71,250 £80,000 £65,000
UK median annual salary £38,500 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -28.70% +8.00% -4.76%

LAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

LAN job vacancy trend in Scotland

LAN
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing LAN.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing LAN

LAN
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing LAN in Scotland over the 6 months to 7 January 2026.

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 7 January 2026. 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 +13 23 £74,500 +105.52% 2
Glasgow +19 11 £36,000 -10.00% 3
Dundee +5 10 £33,500 -25.56%
Perth and Kinross - 7 £33,500 -
Lanarkshire +3 3 - - 4
Renfrewshire - 1 £77,500 -
Shetland Islands - 1 - -
LAN
UK

LAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 28 (48.28%) Azure
2 7 (12.07%) AWS
3 6 (10.34%) GCP
4 5 (8.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 5 (8.62%) Entra ID
5 3 (5.17%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.72%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 40 (68.97%) WAN
2 30 (51.72%) Firewall
3 25 (43.10%) Wireless
4 19 (32.76%) SD-WAN
5 18 (31.03%) Wi-Fi
6 17 (29.31%) VoIP
7 16 (27.59%) Wireshark
8 6 (10.34%) MPLS
9 5 (8.62%) Network Security
9 5 (8.62%) WLAN
10 4 (6.90%) BGP
10 4 (6.90%) VPN
11 3 (5.17%) Software-Defined Networking
12 2 (3.45%) DHCP
12 2 (3.45%) DNS
13 1 (1.72%) NGN
13 1 (1.72%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 4 (6.90%) JIRA
General
1 45 (77.59%) Social Skills
2 21 (36.21%) Telecoms
3 18 (31.03%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (31.03%) Finance
4 2 (3.45%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.72%) Law
5 1 (1.72%) Legal
Job Titles
1 19 (32.76%) Network Engineer
2 17 (29.31%) IT Assistant
2 17 (29.31%) IT Support
2 17 (29.31%) IT Support Assistant
2 17 (29.31%) Support Assistant
3 5 (8.62%) CCTV Engineer
4 4 (6.90%) Analyst
4 4 (6.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (6.90%) IT Engineer
4 4 (6.90%) Network Analyst
4 4 (6.90%) Network Support
4 4 (6.90%) Network Support Analyst
4 4 (6.90%) Support Analyst
5 3 (5.17%) Network Manager
6 2 (3.45%) Architect
6 2 (3.45%) Network Architect
7 1 (1.72%) Head of IT
7 1 (1.72%) IT Architect
7 1 (1.72%) Platform Manager
7 1 (1.72%) Senior Manager
Miscellaneous
1 19 (32.76%) Data Centre
2 17 (29.31%) Self-Motivation
3 16 (27.59%) Management Information System
4 6 (10.34%) Driving Licence
5 5 (8.62%) CCTV
5 5 (8.62%) Public Cloud
6 4 (6.90%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (6.90%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.72%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.62%) Windows
2 3 (5.17%) Windows 10
3 2 (3.45%) Linux
4 1 (1.72%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (39.66%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (34.48%) Load Balancing
3 19 (32.76%) Change Management
3 19 (32.76%) Customer Service
4 17 (29.31%) Coaching
5 16 (27.59%) Asset Management
5 16 (27.59%) Capacity Planning
5 16 (27.59%) Network Monitoring
5 16 (27.59%) Network Planning
5 16 (27.59%) Network Virtualisation
5 16 (27.59%) Problem Management
6 7 (12.07%) Roadmaps
6 7 (12.07%) Service Delivery
7 6 (10.34%) CI/CD
7 6 (10.34%) DevOps
7 6 (10.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 6 (10.34%) ITIL
8 5 (8.62%) Observability
8 5 (8.62%) Preventative Maintenance
8 5 (8.62%) Product Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 4 (6.90%) PowerShell
1 4 (6.90%) Python
Qualifications
1 20 (34.48%) Degree
2 11 (18.97%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (8.62%) CCIE
3 5 (8.62%) CCNA
4 4 (6.90%) CCNP
5 2 (3.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.72%) JNCIP
6 1 (1.72%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.72%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.72%) GDPR
1 1 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.72%) NIST
1 1 (1.72%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (12.07%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.72%) Docker
2 1 (1.72%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.72%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (8.62%) Ansible
1 5 (8.62%) Grafana
1 5 (8.62%) Prometheus
1 5 (8.62%) Terraform
2 3 (5.17%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.72%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.72%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 23 (39.66%) Cisco
2 21 (36.21%) SolarWinds
3 19 (32.76%) Palo Alto
4 18 (31.03%) CheckPoint
5 16 (27.59%) Meraki
6 5 (8.62%) F5
6 5 (8.62%) Fortinet
6 5 (8.62%) Splunk
7 4 (6.90%) ServiceNow
8 3 (5.17%) Microsoft
9 1 (1.72%) Aruba
9 1 (1.72%) Extreme Networks
9 1 (1.72%) Google
9 1 (1.72%) Juniper
9 1 (1.72%) VMware