WAN Jobs in Scotland

Wide Area Network (WAN)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for WAN skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited WAN over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 196 143 139
Rank change year-on-year -53 -4 -13
Permanent jobs citing WAN 86 81 100
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 1.28% 1.72% 1.75%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 13.07% 10.79% 12.56%
Number of salaries quoted 72 31 58
10th Percentile - £28,750 £23,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £34,899 £28,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,000 £42,500 £36,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.24% +18.06% -14.29%
75th Percentile £52,500 £51,714 £56,875
90th Percentile £55,000 £67,500 £71,500
UK median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £48,500
% change year-on-year - -2.06% +2.11%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Scotland

WAN is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 658 751 796
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 9.80% 15.95% 13.91%
Number of salaries quoted 398 266 415
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,000 £27,050
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +7.95%
75th Percentile £62,500 £64,875 £63,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £85,000 £74,500
UK median annual salary £47,500 £50,250 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.47% -4.29% +5.00%

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for WAN in Scotland

WAN
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for WAN in Scotland

WAN
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing WAN in Scotland over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for WAN in Scotland

WAN
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WAN within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Glasgow -92 41 £50,000 +9.29% 9
Edinburgh +46 29 £37,500 +20.00% 2
Dundee - 7 £38,000 -
Aberdeenshire - 3 £28,500 - 4
East Ayrshire - 3 £29,500 -
Aberdeen -27 2 £70,000 - 7
Dumfries and Galloway - 2 £40,000 -
Midlothian -2 1 £35,000 -1.52% 3
WAN
UK

WAN
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 21 (24.42%) IIS
2 8 (9.30%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (8.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.49%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 56 (65.12%) Azure
2 32 (37.21%) AWS
3 16 (18.60%) Cloud Computing
4 15 (17.44%) Microsoft 365
5 14 (16.28%) GCP
6 13 (15.12%) IaaS
6 13 (15.12%) PaaS
7 9 (10.47%) SaaS
8 7 (8.14%) Entra ID
9 4 (4.65%) OneDrive
9 4 (4.65%) Slack
10 3 (3.49%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (3.49%) Amazon S3
10 3 (3.49%) Asana
10 3 (3.49%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (3.49%) Google Workspace
10 3 (3.49%) MailChimp
10 3 (3.49%) Route 53
10 3 (3.49%) Serverless
10 3 (3.49%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 43 (50.00%) LAN
2 36 (41.86%) Firewall
3 32 (37.21%) VPN
4 18 (20.93%) Wireless
5 16 (18.60%) TCP/IP
6 15 (17.44%) SD-WAN
7 12 (13.95%) VLAN
8 11 (12.79%) DHCP
8 11 (12.79%) DNS
9 10 (11.63%) IPsec
10 8 (9.30%) Spanning Tree
10 8 (9.30%) Wi-Fi
11 6 (6.98%) Cisco IOS
11 6 (6.98%) WLAN
12 5 (5.81%) OSPF
13 3 (3.49%) BGP
13 3 (3.49%) Remote Desktop
13 3 (3.49%) Structured Cabling
14 2 (2.33%) Ethernet
14 2 (2.33%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (39.53%) SQL Server
2 13 (15.12%) NoSQL
3 3 (3.49%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (2.33%) DTS
Development Applications
1 2 (2.33%) JIRA
2 1 (1.16%) GitLab
General
1 25 (29.07%) Social Skills
2 6 (6.98%) Finance
2 6 (6.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 6 (6.98%) Telecoms
3 4 (4.65%) Billing
4 3 (3.49%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.49%) Marketing
4 3 (3.49%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.33%) Banking
Job Titles
1 22 (25.58%) Systems Engineer
2 18 (20.93%) Analyst
3 14 (16.28%) Senior
4 11 (12.79%) Support Analyst
5 10 (11.63%) IT Support
6 9 (10.47%) Network Engineer
7 8 (9.30%) Network Technician
7 8 (9.30%) Senior Systems Engineer
8 7 (8.14%) Cloud Engineer
8 7 (8.14%) IT Analyst
8 7 (8.14%) Technical Support
9 6 (6.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (6.98%) IT Support Analyst
10 4 (4.65%) Network Analyst
10 4 (4.65%) Senior Support Engineer
10 4 (4.65%) Senior Technical Support
10 4 (4.65%) Senior Technical Support Engineer
10 4 (4.65%) Support Engineer
10 4 (4.65%) Technical Engineer
10 4 (4.65%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (9.30%) REST
1 8 (9.30%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 30 (34.88%) Data Centre
2 27 (31.40%) Public Cloud
3 21 (24.42%) Clustering
4 13 (15.12%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (15.12%) Replication
5 7 (8.14%) Onboarding
6 3 (3.49%) iPhone
6 3 (3.49%) Video Conferencing
7 2 (2.33%) IoT
7 2 (2.33%) Operational Technology
7 2 (2.33%) Virtual Team
8 1 (1.16%) CCTV
8 1 (1.16%) Cloud Native
8 1 (1.16%) Driving Licence
8 1 (1.16%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 33 (38.37%) Windows
2 23 (26.74%) Windows Server
3 19 (22.09%) Linux
4 11 (12.79%) Windows 10
5 10 (11.63%) Android
6 3 (3.49%) Mac OS
6 3 (3.49%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.16%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (30.23%) Problem-Solving
2 24 (27.91%) Disaster Recovery
3 21 (24.42%) High Availability
3 21 (24.42%) Prototyping
4 13 (15.12%) API Design
4 13 (15.12%) API Development
4 13 (15.12%) Capacity Planning
4 13 (15.12%) CI/CD
4 13 (15.12%) Continuous Delivery
4 13 (15.12%) Continuous Integration
4 13 (15.12%) DevOps
4 13 (15.12%) Mentoring
4 13 (15.12%) Network Virtualisation
4 13 (15.12%) Performance Analysis
4 13 (15.12%) Project Delivery
4 13 (15.12%) Software Testing
4 13 (15.12%) TDD
5 12 (13.95%) ITSM
6 10 (11.63%) Customer Experience
7 9 (10.47%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 21 (24.42%) SQL
2 13 (15.12%) Java
Qualifications
1 21 (24.42%) Security Cleared
2 18 (20.93%) Cisco Certification
3 15 (17.44%) CCNA
4 13 (15.12%) Degree
5 9 (10.47%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (9.30%) SC Cleared
7 3 (3.49%) CCNP
7 3 (3.49%) HND
8 2 (2.33%) JNCIP
9 1 (1.16%) CCDP
9 1 (1.16%) CCIE
9 1 (1.16%) DBS Check
9 1 (1.16%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (4.65%) SLA
3 3 (3.49%) Disclosure Scotland
3 3 (3.49%) SOC 2
4 2 (2.33%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.16%) SOC 3
System Software
1 38 (44.19%) VMware Infrastructure
2 34 (39.53%) VMware NSX
3 18 (20.93%) Active Directory
4 6 (6.98%) Hyper-V
5 3 (3.49%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.16%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 15 (17.44%) Ansible
2 13 (15.12%) FortiGate
2 13 (15.12%) Terraform
3 7 (8.14%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (3.49%) Autotask
5 2 (2.33%) PaperCut
5 2 (2.33%) Puppet
5 2 (2.33%) SafeCom
6 1 (1.16%) SCCM
Vendors
1 51 (59.30%) VMware
2 34 (39.53%) Microsoft
3 31 (36.05%) Cisco
4 13 (15.12%) NetApp
5 11 (12.79%) Juniper
5 11 (12.79%) Meraki
5 11 (12.79%) Palo Alto
6 6 (6.98%) ConnectWise
7 3 (3.49%) Apple
7 3 (3.49%) Facebook
7 3 (3.49%) Google
7 3 (3.49%) HubSpot
7 3 (3.49%) Polycom
8 2 (2.33%) ABBYY
8 2 (2.33%) Atlassian
8 2 (2.33%) Equitrac
8 2 (2.33%) Fujitsu
8 2 (2.33%) Kofax
8 2 (2.33%) OpenText
8 2 (2.33%) ReadSoft