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 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 141 237 166
Rank change year-on-year +96 -71 -24
Permanent jobs citing LAN 14 43 61
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.47% 0.64% 1.31%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.08% 6.54% 7.95%
Number of salaries quoted 12 33 16
10th Percentile £38,000 £28,250 £28,750
25th Percentile £45,313 £31,250 £34,798
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £35,000 £39,500
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -11.39% +11.09%
75th Percentile £53,313 £52,500 £48,375
90th Percentile £79,825 £55,000 £51,714
UK median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000

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 343 657 767
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 11.55% 9.79% 16.44%
Number of salaries quoted 195 399 268
10th Percentile - £28,000 £25,861
25th Percentile £23,504 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £50,000 £50,250
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% -0.50% +4.69%
75th Percentile £66,250 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,750 £70,000 £81,217
UK median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.76%

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 13 May 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 13 May 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 -4 5 £46,250 +32.14% 2
Aberdeen - 5 £50,000 - 1
Glasgow +182 3 £80,000 +62.44% 11
Aberdeenshire +4 1 £50,000 +75.44%
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 3 (21.43%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (14.29%) Azure
3 1 (7.14%) AWS
3 1 (7.14%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
3 1 (7.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (71.43%) WAN
2 6 (42.86%) Firewall
3 5 (35.71%) TCP/IP
4 4 (28.57%) Wireless
5 3 (21.43%) Cisco Nexus
5 3 (21.43%) VPN
6 2 (14.29%) DHCP
6 2 (14.29%) DNS
7 1 (7.14%) BGP
7 1 (7.14%) EIGRP
7 1 (7.14%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 1 (7.14%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 1 (7.14%) MPLS
7 1 (7.14%) OSPF
7 1 (7.14%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (7.14%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 8 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 5 (35.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (7.14%) Automotive
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%) Network Engineer
1 3 (21.43%) Senior
1 3 (21.43%) Systems Administrator
2 2 (14.29%) Consultant
2 2 (14.29%) IT Technician
2 2 (14.29%) Network Consultant
2 2 (14.29%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Senior Consultant
2 2 (14.29%) Senior Network Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) Firewall Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) IT Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Lead
3 1 (7.14%) NOC Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Senior IT Technician
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 6 (42.86%) Windows
1 6 (42.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (14.29%) ITIL
3 2 (14.29%) Migration
4 1 (7.14%) Agile
4 1 (7.14%) Change Management
4 1 (7.14%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (7.14%) Customer Engagement
4 1 (7.14%) Data Security
4 1 (7.14%) IT Strategy
4 1 (7.14%) ITSM
4 1 (7.14%) Operational Stability
4 1 (7.14%) Patch Management
4 1 (7.14%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (7.14%) Service Management
4 1 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (7.14%) Technology Roadmap
4 1 (7.14%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (7.14%) WAN Optimisation
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 7 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (14.29%) VMware NSX
3 1 (7.14%) Hyper-V
3 1 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Cisco Prime
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 8 (57.14%) VMware
2 7 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (35.71%) Cisco
4 3 (21.43%) Fortinet
5 2 (14.29%) F5
6 1 (7.14%) Aruba
6 1 (7.14%) Palo Alto
6 1 (7.14%) Riverbed
6 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow
6 1 (7.14%) SolarWinds