Consultant-senior system administrator vs senior system administrator

The differences between consultants-senior system administrator and senior system administrators can be seen in a few details. Each job has different responsibilities and duties. It typically takes 1-2 years to become both a consultant-senior system administrator and a senior system administrator. Additionally, a senior system administrator has an average salary of $98,146, which is higher than the $97,555 average annual salary of a consultant-senior system administrator.

The top three skills for a consultant-senior system administrator include windows server, database backup and infrastructure. The most important skills for a senior system administrator are linux, windows server, and troubleshoot.

Consultant-senior system administrator vs senior system administrator overview

	Consultant-Senior System Administrator	Senior System Administrator
Yearly salary	$97,555	$98,146
Hourly rate	$46.90	$47.19
Growth rate	5%	5%
Number of jobs	90,166	100,873
Job satisfaction	-	-
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 56%	Bachelor's Degree, 62%
Average age	43	43
Years of experience	2	2

Consultant-senior system administrator vs senior system administrator salary

Consultants-senior system administrator and senior system administrators have different pay scales, as shown below.

	Consultant-Senior System Administrator	Senior System Administrator
Average salary	$97,555	$98,146
Salary range	Between $68,000 And $139,000	Between $75,000 And $126,000
Highest paying City	-	San Francisco, CA
Highest paying state	-	California
Best paying company	-	Cambridge Associates
Best paying industry	-	Finance

Differences between consultant-senior system administrator and senior system administrator education

There are a few differences between a consultant-senior system administrator and a senior system administrator in terms of educational background:

	Consultant-Senior System Administrator	Senior System Administrator
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 56%	Bachelor's Degree, 62%
Most common major	Computer Science	Computer Science
Most common college	Stanford University	Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Consultant-senior system administrator vs senior system administrator demographics

Here are the differences between consultants-senior system administrator' and senior system administrators' demographics:

	Consultant-Senior System Administrator	Senior System Administrator
Average age	43	43
Gender ratio	Male, 91.3% Female, 8.7%	Male, 89.0% Female, 11.0%
Race ratio	Black or African American, 7.9% Unknown, 5.0% Hispanic or Latino, 11.6% Asian, 13.7% White, 61.5% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.3%	Black or African American, 8.9% Unknown, 5.1% Hispanic or Latino, 12.6% Asian, 11.8% White, 61.4% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.3%
LGBT Percentage	9%	9%

Differences between consultant-senior system administrator and senior system administrator duties and responsibilities

Consultant-senior system administrator example responsibilities.

Save company many hours of manual testing and developing by engineering Java applications to automate tedious tasks.
Work via VPN remote access.
Experience supporting remote access clients via dial-up and VPN.
Work with UNIX and windows administrators to resolve NetBackup issues.
Develop various system tools using Perl to ease NT server administration.
Configure DNS in the test lab, setting up a fake root.

Senior system administrator example responsibilities.

Manage and optimize the design and delivery of project associate with AIX arena.
Manage all installs and setup of new servers, and server upgrades to server 2008 R2.
Implement IIS servers for both the internal and external web servers and managing security on all web servers.
Design, implement, and manage a network and domain extension in a remote location via a secure VPN link.
Manage Cisco network equipment including firewalls and switches.
Administer and manage daily backups via Symantec NetBackup.

Consultant-senior system administrator vs senior system administrator skills

Common consultant-senior system administrator skills

Windows Server, 11%
Database Backup, 7%
Infrastructure, 6%
Troubleshoot, 5%
Unix, 5%
Switches, 4%

Common senior system administrator skills

Linux, 7%
Windows Server, 6%
Troubleshoot, 5%
System Administration, 4%
PowerShell, 4%
SAN, 4%

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