Bos developer vs developer/consultant

The differences between bos developers and developer/consultants can be seen in a few details. Each job has different responsibilities and duties. It typically takes 2-4 years to become both a bos developer and a developer/consultant. Additionally, a developer/consultant has an average salary of $98,508, which is higher than the $93,788 average annual salary of a bos developer.

The top three skills for a bos developer include sap business objects, web intelligence and dashboards. The most important skills for a developer/consultant are java, project management, and javascript.

Bos developer vs developer/consultant overview

	BOS Developer	Developer/Consultant
Yearly salary	$93,788	$98,508
Hourly rate	$45.09	$47.36
Growth rate	21%	21%
Number of jobs	79,713	257,985
Job satisfaction	-	-
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 71%	Bachelor's Degree, 67%
Average age	39	39
Years of experience	4	4

Bos developer vs developer/consultant salary

Bos developers and developer/consultants have different pay scales, as shown below.

	BOS Developer	Developer/Consultant
Average salary	$93,788	$98,508
Salary range	Between $72,000 And $121,000	Between $71,000 And $135,000
Highest paying City	San Rafael, CA	San Francisco, CA
Highest paying state	Washington	Massachusetts
Best paying company	HMSHost	Microsoft
Best paying industry	Pharmaceutical	Technology

Differences between bos developer and developer/consultant education

There are a few differences between a bos developer and a developer/consultant in terms of educational background:

	BOS Developer	Developer/Consultant
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 71%	Bachelor's Degree, 67%
Most common major	Computer Science	Business
Most common college	-	Stanford University

Bos developer vs developer/consultant demographics

Here are the differences between bos developers' and developer/consultants' demographics:

	BOS Developer	Developer/Consultant
Average age	39	39
Gender ratio	Male, 65.9% Female, 34.1%	Male, 58.5% Female, 41.5%
Race ratio	Black or African American, 4.4% Unknown, 4.8% Hispanic or Latino, 8.2% Asian, 37.1% White, 45.3% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.2%	Black or African American, 4.6% Unknown, 4.8% Hispanic or Latino, 8.4% Asian, 29.8% White, 52.2% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.2%
LGBT Percentage	8%	8%

Differences between bos developer and developer/consultant duties and responsibilities

Bos developer example responsibilities.

Involve in creating users, groups, assigning rights to users or groups, scheduling reports, managing servers using CMC.
Design document production, including ETL field mappings, DDL script and maintain them throughout the project duration.
Perform reports testing by comparing DEV and UAT to resolve the issues and errors in the DMM reports.
Work in development of reports using Teradata database.
Design and implement custom applications base on the MicroStrategy SDK.
Define and implement security to access BO repository and BO application.

Developer/consultant example responsibilities.

Manage SDLC development including analysis, writing technical documentation, design, coding, testing.
Lead the project, development and architecture of an innovative SharePoint contract warehouse, including designing several process improvements.
Interpret, develop, and enhance graphic, visual & interaction designs in HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
Work with other web technologies such as AJAX, jQuery, and PHP throughout this redesign.
Work with AJAX data consisting of JSON responses parsing the same and presenting on the UI layer.
Coordinate new test environment builds with CICS & DB2 support teams, streamline existing test environments by identifying and eliminating redundancies.

Bos developer vs developer/consultant skills

Common bos developer skills

SAP Business Objects, 11%
Web Intelligence, 11%
Dashboards, 10%
SQL Server, 6%
SAP BW, 4%
CMC, 3%

Common developer/consultant skills

Java, 8%
Project Management, 6%
JavaScript, 6%
HR, 6%
Microservices, 4%
JQuery, 4%