Data warehouse specialist vs data administrator

The differences between data warehouse specialists and data administrators can be seen in a few details. Each job has different responsibilities and duties. It typically takes 2-4 years to become both a data warehouse specialist and a data administrator. Additionally, a data administrator has an average salary of $80,072, which is higher than the $78,418 average annual salary of a data warehouse specialist.

The top three skills for a data warehouse specialist include data warehouse, ETL and data warehousing. The most important skills for a data administrator are data management, java, and profiling.

Data warehouse specialist vs data administrator overview

	Data Warehouse Specialist	Data Administrator
Yearly salary	$78,418	$80,072
Hourly rate	$37.70	$38.50
Growth rate	9%	9%
Number of jobs	119,990	124,537
Job satisfaction	-	-
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 67%	Bachelor's Degree, 58%
Average age	46	46
Years of experience	4	4

Data warehouse specialist vs data administrator salary

Data warehouse specialists and data administrators have different pay scales, as shown below.

	Data Warehouse Specialist	Data Administrator
Average salary	$78,418	$80,072
Salary range	Between $61,000 And $99,000	Between $53,000 And $119,000
Highest paying City	Pleasanton, CA	Richmond, CA
Highest paying state	Maryland	Louisiana
Best paying company	Avid	Southern California Edison
Best paying industry	Finance	Finance

Differences between data warehouse specialist and data administrator education

There are a few differences between a data warehouse specialist and a data administrator in terms of educational background:

	Data Warehouse Specialist	Data Administrator
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 67%	Bachelor's Degree, 58%
Most common major	Computer Science	Business
Most common college	University of Pennsylvania	Stanford University

Data warehouse specialist vs data administrator demographics

Here are the differences between data warehouse specialists' and data administrators' demographics:

	Data Warehouse Specialist	Data Administrator
Average age	46	46
Gender ratio	Male, 63.7% Female, 36.3%	Male, 41.9% Female, 58.1%
Race ratio	Black or African American, 7.3% Unknown, 5.2% Hispanic or Latino, 9.0% Asian, 22.7% White, 55.4% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.5%	Black or African American, 8.0% Unknown, 5.2% Hispanic or Latino, 9.2% Asian, 17.7% White, 59.4% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.5%
LGBT Percentage	6%	6%

Differences between data warehouse specialist and data administrator duties and responsibilities

Data warehouse specialist example responsibilities.

Lead system maintenance, upgrade, ETL, scheduling, and installation of client software, holding accountability for performance.
Report procedures against SSAS are constructed and ExcelWriter templates are developed to automate and replace existing manually generate, client-contract reports.
Determine data extraction and transformation require to support reporting requirements.
Develop ETL documentation including data flow diagrams, process diagrams, data transformation mapping documentation and business rules.
Create SSIS packages to upload data to SQL server.
Design, implement, modify and schedule SSIS packages in SSMS.

Data administrator example responsibilities.

Manage the LDAP requests for user provision.
Manage replication & distribution servers, versioning dev & production servers.
Design and lead team efforts to reduce batch windows through application on new features.
Manage access to file shares, DFS shares, IIS servers and terminal services.
Integrate LDAP and setup security at multiple levels to achieve data security and object level security.
Install and set up the VMWare environment, managing the closing/building and allocation of all virtual servers.

Data warehouse specialist vs data administrator skills

Common data warehouse specialist skills

Data Warehouse, 11%
ETL, 9%
Data Warehousing, 8%
Business Intelligence, 7%
Architecture, 5%
Data Analysis, 4%

Common data administrator skills

Data Management, 12%
Java, 11%
Profiling, 10%
DB2, 7%
Unix, 7%
Sybase, 6%

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