Data center technician lead vs network technician

The differences between data center technician leads and network technicians 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 a network technician. Additionally, a data center technician lead has an average salary of $128,891, which is higher than the $68,938 average annual salary of a network technician.

The top three skills for a data center technician lead include infrastructure, cloud and java. The most important skills for a network technician are customer service, switches, and troubleshoot.

Data center technician lead vs network technician overview

	Data Center Technician Lead	Network Technician
Yearly salary	$128,891	$68,938
Hourly rate	$61.97	$33.14
Growth rate	5%	5%
Number of jobs	118,299	79,712
Job satisfaction	-	5
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 43%	Bachelor's Degree, 50%
Average age	43	43
Years of experience	2	2

Data center technician lead vs network technician salary

Data center technician leads and network technicians have different pay scales, as shown below.

	Data Center Technician Lead	Network Technician
Average salary	$128,891	$68,938
Salary range	Between $76,000 And $217,000	Between $51,000 And $92,000
Highest paying City	-	Urban Honolulu, HI
Highest paying state	-	Hawaii
Best paying company	-	Apple
Best paying industry	-	Finance

Differences between data center technician lead and network technician education

There are a few differences between a data center technician lead and a network technician in terms of educational background:

	Data Center Technician Lead	Network Technician
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 43%	Bachelor's Degree, 50%
Most common major	Business	Computer Science
Most common college	Stanford University	University of Pennsylvania

Data center technician lead vs network technician demographics

Here are the differences between data center technician leads' and network technicians' demographics:

	Data Center Technician Lead	Network Technician
Average age	43	43
Gender ratio	Male, 86.9% Female, 13.1%	Male, 87.3% Female, 12.7%
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, 8.9% Unknown, 5.1% Hispanic or Latino, 12.6% Asian, 9.4% White, 63.8% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.3%
LGBT Percentage	9%	9%

Differences between data center technician lead and network technician 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.

Network technician example responsibilities.

Install and manage DHCP servers including setting up DHCP scopes, enabling DHCP clients, viewing and managing active leases.
Manage city wide IIS deployment.
Manage Virtualization system, using ESX server/client.
Install, configure and manage Symantec Antivirus on all network computers
Use Symantec BackupExec to manage and maintain all server backups and file restorations.
Manage company Cisco series routers, switches, and ASA firewall integrate into MPLS network.

Data center technician lead vs network technician skills

Common data center technician lead skills

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

Common network technician skills

Customer Service, 9%
Switches, 6%
Troubleshoot, 6%
Routers, 4%
Lan Wan, 3%
Lan, 3%

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