WAN Job Trends in Scotland

Wide Area Network (WAN)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring WAN skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 134 196
Rank change year-on-year +15 +62 -54
Permanent jobs citing WAN 15 5 80
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.48% 0.24% 1.22%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.70% 2.22% 14.08%
Number of salaries quoted 7 2 64
10th Percentile £36,500 £32,875 £29,150
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,313 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,500 £41,250 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.42% -8.33% +4.05%
75th Percentile £65,625 £47,813 £53,750
90th Percentile £74,500 £50,625 £56,250
UK median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Scotland

WAN 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 263 225 568
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 8.34% 10.58% 8.68%
Number of salaries quoted 118 126 400
10th Percentile £25,289 £23,504 £28,225
25th Percentile £27,500 £25,313 £35,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.89% -5.00% -0.99%
75th Percentile £67,500 £69,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £70,025
UK median annual salary £47,000 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -1.05% - -5.47%

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

WAN job vacancy trend in Scotland

WAN
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing WAN.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing WAN

WAN
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing WAN in Scotland over the 6 months to 8 June 2026.

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 8 June 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
Glasgow +11 7 £45,250 +39.23% 17
Highlands - 3 £36,000 - 3
Edinburgh +13 2 £57,500 -
Lanarkshire - 2 - - 10
WAN
UK

WAN
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 5 (33.33%) Azure
2 4 (26.67%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (20.00%) Entra ID
4 2 (13.33%) AWS
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Control Tower
5 1 (6.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (80.00%) LAN
2 8 (53.33%) Firewall
2 8 (53.33%) Wireless
3 6 (40.00%) Network Security
3 6 (40.00%) VPN
4 5 (33.33%) SD-WAN
5 4 (26.67%) MPLS
6 3 (20.00%) BGP
6 3 (20.00%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (20.00%) EIGRP
6 3 (20.00%) OSPF
6 3 (20.00%) WLAN
7 2 (13.33%) DHCP
7 2 (13.33%) DNS
7 2 (13.33%) VLAN
7 2 (13.33%) VoIP
8 1 (6.67%) Ethernet VPN
8 1 (6.67%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 1 (6.67%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 1 (6.67%) NGN
General
1 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Finance
2 1 (6.67%) Manufacturing
2 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (6.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (60.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) IT Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) IT Technician
3 1 (6.67%) Architect
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Network Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Data Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Data Network Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Network Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Network Operations Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Senior
3 1 (6.67%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Driving Licence
2 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (33.33%) Windows
2 2 (13.33%) Linux
2 2 (13.33%) Windows 10
2 2 (13.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) ITIL
1 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (26.67%) Service Delivery
3 3 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 3 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (13.33%) Application Security
4 2 (13.33%) Change Management
4 2 (13.33%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (13.33%) Customer Service
4 2 (13.33%) High Availability
4 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Monitoring
4 2 (13.33%) Inventory Management
4 2 (13.33%) ITSM
4 2 (13.33%) Mathematics
4 2 (13.33%) Network Design
4 2 (13.33%) Performance Metrics
4 2 (13.33%) Service Management
4 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (6.67%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
1 1 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) CCNP
1 4 (26.67%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (13.33%) CCIE
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Certification
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (6.67%) Degree
3 1 (6.67%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (6.67%) JNCIP
3 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (26.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (6.67%) Hyper-V
3 1 (6.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (13.33%) Cisco Prime
3 1 (6.67%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 8 (53.33%) Cisco
2 5 (33.33%) Palo Alto
3 4 (26.67%) Fortinet
4 3 (20.00%) Aruba
4 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
5 2 (13.33%) SolarWinds
5 2 (13.33%) VMware
6 1 (6.67%) Arista
6 1 (6.67%) CheckPoint
6 1 (6.67%) F5
6 1 (6.67%) HP
6 1 (6.67%) Juniper
6 1 (6.67%) Meraki