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 21 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 138 238 162
Rank change year-on-year +100 -76 -9
Permanent jobs citing LAN 14 44 59
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.39% 0.66% 1.23%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.30% 6.70% 8.04%
Number of salaries quoted 14 34 20
10th Percentile £32,750 £28,250 £28,350
25th Percentile £38,750 £31,250 £30,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £35,000 £38,750
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -9.68% +17.42%
75th Percentile £52,500 £49,375 £47,688
90th Percentile £74,475 £55,000 £51,086
UK median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.56% - -

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 1,077 657 734
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 30.24% 9.92% 15.33%
Number of salaries quoted 198 400 271
10th Percentile - £27,950 £25,000
25th Percentile £23,504 £35,000 £36,635
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £50,000 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -0.99% +6.32%
75th Percentile £66,250 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,250 £70,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £51,000
% change year-on-year - -6.86% -2.86%

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 21 April 2025.

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 21 April 2025. 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 +6 5 £45,000 +24.14% 9
Aberdeen - 5 £50,000 - 1
Glasgow +179 3 £80,000 +91.62% 8
Aberdeenshire +1 1 £50,000 +75.44% 1
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 8 (57.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (7.14%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (7.14%) Azure
2 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
2 1 (7.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (71.43%) WAN
2 6 (42.86%) Firewall
2 6 (42.86%) TCP/IP
3 4 (28.57%) Wireless
4 3 (21.43%) DHCP
4 3 (21.43%) DNS
4 3 (21.43%) VPN
5 2 (14.29%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (7.14%) Wi-Fi
General
1 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 5 (35.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (7.14%) Automotive
3 1 (7.14%) Law
3 1 (7.14%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (21.43%) Administrator
1 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (21.43%) IT Administrator
1 3 (21.43%) IT Systems Administrator
1 3 (21.43%) Senior
1 3 (21.43%) Systems Administrator
2 2 (14.29%) Consultant
2 2 (14.29%) IT Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) IT Support
2 2 (14.29%) IT Support Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) IT Technician
2 2 (14.29%) Network Consultant
2 2 (14.29%) Network Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Senior Consultant
2 2 (14.29%) Senior Network Consultant
2 2 (14.29%) Support Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) LAN Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Technician
3 1 (7.14%) Wireless Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
1 1 (7.14%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (50.00%) Windows
1 7 (50.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (7.14%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (14.29%) Migration
4 1 (7.14%) Change Management
4 1 (7.14%) Customer Service
4 1 (7.14%) Data Security
4 1 (7.14%) IT Strategy
4 1 (7.14%) ITIL
4 1 (7.14%) ITSM
4 1 (7.14%) Patch Management
4 1 (7.14%) Project Delivery
4 1 (7.14%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.14%) Perl
1 1 (7.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) CCNP
1 3 (21.43%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (14.29%) CCIE
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 9 (64.29%) Active Directory
2 2 (14.29%) Hyper-V
3 1 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 8 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 6 (42.86%) VMware
3 3 (21.43%) Cisco
4 1 (7.14%) Apple
4 1 (7.14%) Fortinet