Data center technician lead vs information technology administrator

The differences between data center technician leads and information technology 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 data center technician lead and an information technology administrator. Additionally, a data center technician lead has an average salary of $128,891, which is higher than the $73,195 average annual salary of an information technology administrator.

The top three skills for a data center technician lead include infrastructure, cloud and java. The most important skills for an information technology administrator are customer service, troubleshoot, and linux.

Data center technician lead vs information technology administrator overview

	Data Center Technician Lead	Information Technology Administrator
Yearly salary	$128,891	$73,195
Hourly rate	$61.97	$35.19
Growth rate	5%	5%
Number of jobs	118,299	159,499
Job satisfaction	-	-
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 43%	Bachelor's Degree, 56%
Average age	43	43
Years of experience	2	2

Data center technician lead vs information technology administrator salary

Data center technician leads and information technology administrators have different pay scales, as shown below.

	Data Center Technician Lead	Information Technology Administrator
Average salary	$128,891	$73,195
Salary range	Between $76,000 And $217,000	Between $50,000 And $105,000
Highest paying City	-	San Francisco, CA
Highest paying state	-	California
Best paying company	-	Databricks
Best paying industry	-	Finance

Differences between data center technician lead and information technology administrator education

There are a few differences between a data center technician lead and an information technology administrator in terms of educational background:

	Data Center Technician Lead	Information Technology Administrator
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 43%	Bachelor's Degree, 56%
Most common major	Business	Computer Science
Most common college	Stanford University	Stanford University

Data center technician lead vs information technology administrator demographics

Here are the differences between data center technician leads' and information technology administrators' demographics:

	Data Center Technician Lead	Information Technology Administrator
Average age	43	43
Gender ratio	Male, 86.9% Female, 13.1%	Male, 81.6% Female, 18.4%
Race ratio	Black or African American, 8.5% Unknown, 5.1% Hispanic or Latino, 12.2% Asian, 11.8% White, 62.1% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.3%	Black or African American, 9.1% Unknown, 5.1% Hispanic or Latino, 12.7% Asian, 9.8% White, 63.0% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.3%
LGBT Percentage	9%	9%

Differences between data center technician lead and information technology administrator duties and responsibilities

Data center technician lead example responsibilities.

Recommend, engineer and manage office systems, including centralize productivity and communication systems such as e-mail and centralize desktop environments.
Install & setup BPCS & 3rd party ERP applications.
Provide first line defense by providing customer with support on hosting, HTML, FTP, POP3 issues.
Support various web-base applications, LAN/WAN connections and various media devices (FTP programs, PDAs and Smartphone's).
Set appropriate recovery model for SQL databases to maximize space used, depending on the type of data in the database.
Back up terabyte databases and perform restores and run consistency checks from SQL standby servers prior to making changes in production.

Information technology administrator example responsibilities.

Define, document and project manage the implementation and configuration changes to HRIS applications.
Manage the migration from ADP to Lawson software; adapt HRIS to fit organizational needs.
Manage PC trainers and develop high quality internal instructor-le courses.
Manage host peripheral hardware including disk files and space utilization.
Manage and maintain corporate telecommunications and LAN; recommend repairs as needed.
Manage administration for SharePoint websites including account creation or modifying existing user accounts and site settings.

Data center technician lead vs information technology administrator skills

Common data center technician lead skills

Infrastructure, 17%
Cloud, 13%
Java, 5%
Switches, 5%
Data Centers, 4%
Customer Service, 4%

Common information technology administrator skills

Customer Service, 10%
Troubleshoot, 6%
Linux, 5%
Database, 4%
VMware, 4%
Windows Server, 4%

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