Aix administrator vs linux administrator

The differences between aix administrators and linux administrators can be seen in a few details. Each job has different responsibilities and duties. It typically takes 1-2 years to become both an aix administrator and a linux administrator. Additionally, an aix administrator has an average salary of $80,735, which is higher than the $79,996 average annual salary of a linux administrator.

The top three skills for an aix administrator include disk, linux and aix servers. The most important skills for a linux administrator are python, windows, and linux servers.

Aix administrator vs linux administrator overview

	AIX Administrator	Linux Administrator
Yearly salary	$80,735	$79,996
Hourly rate	$38.81	$38.46
Growth rate	5%	5%
Number of jobs	56,543	56,604
Job satisfaction	-	-
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 69%	Bachelor's Degree, 74%
Average age	43	43
Years of experience	2	2

Aix administrator vs linux administrator salary

Aix administrators and linux administrators have different pay scales, as shown below.

	AIX Administrator	Linux Administrator
Average salary	$80,735	$79,996
Salary range	Between $63,000 And $102,000	Between $62,000 And $101,000
Highest paying City	Hamilton, NJ	Palo Alto, CA
Highest paying state	Washington	Maryland
Best paying company	Barclays	Medline
Best paying industry	Finance	Technology

Differences between aix administrator and linux administrator education

There are a few differences between an aix administrator and a linux administrator in terms of educational background:

	AIX Administrator	Linux Administrator
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 69%	Bachelor's Degree, 74%
Most common major	Computer Science	Computer Science
Most common college	-	Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Aix administrator vs linux administrator demographics

Here are the differences between aix administrators' and linux administrators' demographics:

	AIX Administrator	Linux Administrator
Average age	43	43
Gender ratio	Male, 87.0% Female, 13.0%	Male, 87.3% Female, 12.7%
Race ratio	Black or African American, 7.6% Unknown, 5.0% Hispanic or Latino, 11.9% Asian, 14.2% White, 61.0% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.3%	Black or African American, 8.0% Unknown, 5.0% Hispanic or Latino, 11.7% Asian, 13.9% White, 61.2% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.3%
LGBT Percentage	9%	9%

Differences between aix administrator and linux administrator duties and responsibilities

Aix administrator example responsibilities.

Used LVM for managing volume groups, logical volumes and file systems.
Work on LDAP manage servers migrate servers between security models and from one OU to another.
Manage blocks of 20 public IP addresses by sub netting to 24 and provision on MTA and DNS servers.
Manage HMC's version 6.1 , 6.2 , 6.3 and migrate them to HMC version 7.1 to accommodate power 7 machines.
Manage disk space and other system resources with respect to various applications and make recommendations to Business/ management regarding environment requirements.
Install and configure RHEL Linux on servers and desktops.

Linux administrator example responsibilities.

Manage PGP/GPG encryption in FTP/SFTP scripts.
Manage TCP/IP packets and DHCP servers and resolving TCP/IP network access problems for the clients.
Manage entire network infrastructure, switches, firewalls, servers (configuration/installation), patch management, vendor relations.
Configure and manage splunk forwarders.
Develop bash scripts to automate system/build processing.
Work with Zen virtualization to manage virtual Linux operating systems.

Aix administrator vs linux administrator skills

Common aix administrator skills

Disk, 6%
Linux, 5%
AIX Servers, 5%
LPAR, 5%
Unix, 4%
SAN, 4%

Common linux administrator skills

Python, 7%
Windows, 5%
Linux Servers, 4%
Bash, 4%
Red Hat, 4%
OS, 3%

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