Data center technician lead vs technician

The differences between data center technician leads and 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 technician. Additionally, a data center technician lead has an average salary of $128,891, which is higher than the $38,045 average annual salary of a technician.

The top three skills for a data center technician lead include infrastructure, cloud and java. The most important skills for a technician are patients, customer service, and patient care.

Data center technician lead vs technician overview

	Data Center Technician Lead	Technician
Yearly salary	$128,891	$38,045
Hourly rate	$61.97	$18.29
Growth rate	5%	1%
Number of jobs	118,299	596,842
Job satisfaction	-	2
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 43%	Bachelor's Degree, 32%
Average age	43	40
Years of experience	2	2

Data center technician lead vs technician salary

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

	Data Center Technician Lead	Technician
Average salary	$128,891	$38,045
Salary range	Between $76,000 And $217,000	Between $24,000 And $58,000
Highest paying City	-	San Jose, CA
Highest paying state	-	Hawaii
Best paying company	-	Microsoft
Best paying industry	-	Telecommunication

Differences between data center technician lead and technician education

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

	Data Center Technician Lead	Technician
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 43%	Bachelor's Degree, 32%
Most common major	Business	Business
Most common college	Stanford University	-

Data center technician lead vs technician demographics

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

	Data Center Technician Lead	Technician
Average age	43	40
Gender ratio	Male, 86.9% Female, 13.1%	Male, 75.2% Female, 24.8%
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, 9.4% Unknown, 4.2% Hispanic or Latino, 19.4% Asian, 4.9% White, 61.2% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.8%
LGBT Percentage	9%	2%

Differences between data center technician lead and 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.

Technician example responsibilities.

Achieve multiple ASE certifications within first year of employment.
Implement and manage UHF radio base stations, repeaters, and command network, effectively linking all regional headquarters.
Manage telecommunications installation and repair for hospital Nortel network.
Maintain numerous automate scripts to assist in managing Linux systems.
Manage, troubleshot and repair multiple wireless technologies including fiber optic transmission switches.
Install peripherals including printers, fax machines, scanners, and smartphones.

Data center technician lead vs technician skills

Common data center technician lead skills

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

Common technician skills

Patients, 16%
Customer Service, 14%
Patient Care, 8%
Hand Tools, 6%
Diagnosis, 5%
Preventative Maintenance, 4%

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