LAN Jobs in Scotland

Local Area Network (LAN)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for LAN skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited LAN over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 228 147 156
Rank change year-on-year -81 +9 -28
Permanent jobs citing LAN 45 64 104
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.66% 1.47% 1.71%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.94% 8.77% 12.90%
Number of salaries quoted 34 17 52
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,279 £23,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £41,500 £35,778
Median % change year-on-year -15.66% +15.99% -14.81%
75th Percentile £55,000 £47,500 £53,125
90th Percentile £56,250 £50,250 £69,375
UK median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £47,000
% change year-on-year - -4.26% +2.17%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Scotland

LAN 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 648 730 806
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 9.48% 16.78% 13.25%
Number of salaries quoted 394 245 381
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,850 £27,125
25th Percentile £35,188 £36,000 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +6.67%
75th Percentile £62,500 £66,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £50,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.94% -3.81% +5.00%

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 1 June 2024.

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 1 June 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
Edinburgh +42 24 £40,000 +37.93% 1
Dundee - 7 £38,000 -
Glasgow -122 4 £49,250 +7.65% 4
Aberdeenshire - 3 £28,500 -
East Ayrshire - 3 £29,500 -
Midlothian -3 1 £35,000 -1.52% 1
West Lothian - 1 - - 1
Dumfries and Galloway - 1 £40,000 -
Lanarkshire - 1 £52,500 - 3
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 4 (8.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (6.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 14 (31.11%) Azure
2 9 (20.00%) SaaS
3 8 (17.78%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (13.33%) AWS
5 3 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (6.67%) Amazon S3
5 3 (6.67%) Asana
5 3 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (6.67%) Entra ID
5 3 (6.67%) MailChimp
5 3 (6.67%) Route 53
5 3 (6.67%) Serverless
5 3 (6.67%) Slack
5 3 (6.67%) Zapier
6 1 (2.22%) GCP
6 1 (2.22%) Google Workspace
6 1 (2.22%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 44 (97.78%) WAN
2 24 (53.33%) Firewall
3 20 (44.44%) VPN
3 20 (44.44%) Wireless
4 13 (28.89%) TCP/IP
5 12 (26.67%) DNS
6 11 (24.44%) DHCP
6 11 (24.44%) IPsec
7 9 (20.00%) VLAN
8 8 (17.78%) Spanning Tree
8 8 (17.78%) Wi-Fi
9 7 (15.56%) Cisco IOS
10 6 (13.33%) OSPF
11 5 (11.11%) WLAN
12 4 (8.89%) BGP
13 3 (6.67%) Remote Desktop
13 3 (6.67%) SD-WAN
14 2 (4.44%) Ethernet
14 2 (4.44%) Network Security
14 2 (4.44%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (2.22%) JIRA
General
1 13 (28.89%) Social Skills
2 6 (13.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (8.89%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (8.89%) Finance
4 3 (6.67%) Marketing
4 3 (6.67%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (33.33%) Analyst
2 12 (26.67%) Network Engineer
3 10 (22.22%) IT Support
4 9 (20.00%) Support Analyst
5 8 (17.78%) Network Technician
6 6 (13.33%) IT Analyst
6 6 (13.33%) IT Support Analyst
7 5 (11.11%) Network Analyst
8 3 (6.67%) IT Support Specialist
8 3 (6.67%) Network Systems Engineer
8 3 (6.67%) Service Desk Manager
8 3 (6.67%) Service Manager
8 3 (6.67%) Support Specialist
8 3 (6.67%) Systems Engineer
8 3 (6.67%) Technical Analyst
8 3 (6.67%) Technical Support
8 3 (6.67%) Technical Support Analyst
9 2 (4.44%) Network Support
9 2 (4.44%) Senior
9 2 (4.44%) Support Technician
Miscellaneous
1 17 (37.78%) Data Centre
2 4 (8.89%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.44%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.44%) PKI
3 2 (4.44%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.22%) CCTV
4 1 (2.22%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.22%) Driving Licence
4 1 (2.22%) IoT
4 1 (2.22%) Operational Technology
4 1 (2.22%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (28.89%) Windows
2 7 (15.56%) Android
3 6 (13.33%) Windows Server
4 4 (8.89%) Linux
4 4 (8.89%) Windows 10
5 3 (6.67%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (2.22%) Apple iOS
6 1 (2.22%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (22.22%) Customer Experience
2 9 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 9 (20.00%) ITSM
2 9 (20.00%) Network Monitoring
2 9 (20.00%) Patch Management
3 8 (17.78%) Computer Science
3 8 (17.78%) Disaster Recovery
3 8 (17.78%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (15.56%) Network Design
5 6 (13.33%) Customer Service
5 6 (13.33%) Incident Response
6 5 (11.11%) Proactive Monitoring
7 4 (8.89%) Agile
7 4 (8.89%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (6.67%) Business Continuity
8 3 (6.67%) Critical Thinking
8 3 (6.67%) CRM
8 3 (6.67%) Fintech
8 3 (6.67%) Innovative Thinking
8 3 (6.67%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (4.44%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 15 (33.33%) Degree
2 11 (24.44%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (13.33%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (6.67%) CCNP
4 3 (6.67%) HND
5 2 (4.44%) CCIE
5 2 (4.44%) CCNA
5 2 (4.44%) JNCIP
6 1 (2.22%) CCDP
6 1 (2.22%) DBS Check
6 1 (2.22%) JNCIA
6 1 (2.22%) SC Cleared
6 1 (2.22%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.67%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (4.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.22%) SOC 2
System Software
1 19 (42.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (24.44%) Active Directory
3 6 (13.33%) Hyper-V
4 3 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (4.44%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (2.22%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (6.67%) Autotask
2 2 (4.44%) Ansible
2 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (4.44%) Puppet
3 1 (2.22%) SCCM
Vendors
1 19 (42.22%) Cisco
1 19 (42.22%) VMware
2 11 (24.44%) Juniper
2 11 (24.44%) Meraki
2 11 (24.44%) Palo Alto
3 6 (13.33%) Microsoft
4 3 (6.67%) Apple
4 3 (6.67%) Facebook
4 3 (6.67%) HubSpot
5 2 (4.44%) ConnectWise
6 1 (2.22%) Aruba
6 1 (2.22%) Atlassian
6 1 (2.22%) Google