Database designer vs lead technician

The differences between database designers and lead technicians can be seen in a few details. Each job has different responsibilities and duties. While it typically takes 2-4 years to become a database designer, becoming a lead technician takes usually requires 1-2 years. Additionally, a lead technician has an average salary of $90,615, which is higher than the $87,051 average annual salary of a database designer.

The top three skills for a database designer include database design, data management and javascript. The most important skills for a lead technician are java, architecture, and digital transformation.

Database designer vs lead technician overview

	Database Designer	Lead Technician
Yearly salary	$87,051	$90,615
Hourly rate	$41.85	$43.56
Growth rate	9%	10%
Number of jobs	68,992	250,590
Job satisfaction	-	-
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 68%	Bachelor's Degree, 50%
Average age	46	42
Years of experience	4	2

Database designer vs lead technician salary

Database designers and lead technicians have different pay scales, as shown below.

	Database Designer	Lead Technician
Average salary	$87,051	$90,615
Salary range	Between $64,000 And $117,000	Between $67,000 And $121,000
Highest paying City	San Jose, CA	San Francisco, CA
Highest paying state	New Jersey	California
Best paying company	State Street	Meta
Best paying industry	Finance	Retail

Differences between database designer and lead technician education

There are a few differences between a database designer and a lead technician in terms of educational background:

	Database Designer	Lead Technician
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 68%	Bachelor's Degree, 50%
Most common major	Computer Science	Computer Science
Most common college	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Database designer vs lead technician demographics

Here are the differences between database designers' and lead technicians' demographics:

	Database Designer	Lead Technician
Average age	46	42
Gender ratio	Male, 67.2% Female, 32.8%	Male, 83.4% Female, 16.6%
Race ratio	Black or African American, 6.7% Unknown, 5.1% Hispanic or Latino, 8.4% Asian, 27.5% White, 51.7% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.5%	Black or African American, 10.4% Unknown, 5.3% Hispanic or Latino, 15.1% Asian, 15.1% White, 53.6% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.4%
LGBT Percentage	6%	11%

Differences between database designer and lead technician duties and responsibilities

Database designer example responsibilities.

Devise and manage recommended changes to SalesForce for better business processing practices.
Create and modify tables, views and indexes, PL/SQL store procedures, functions and triggers according to business requirement.
Perform and troubleshoot data extract into SAS datasets.
Translate ETL of data to graphs used to drive business decisions.
Enhance existing database screens with useful metric reporting functions using VBA.
Apply updates and financial transactions receive from customers, in XML format.

Lead technician example responsibilities.

Manage and support the Cisco base corporate remote access VPN solution.
Manage the third party IP provider relationship and implement all the bridges between AXI4 and internal buses.
Used JIRA to manage the product backlog, tasks assignments, project burn-down rate and for velocity tracking purposes.
Manage product test support of new designs used for testing, write technical documentation in HTML improving department processes and procedures.
Manage customer functional areas of desktop support, field service, office services and network support to coordinate timely issue resolution.
Configure and manage JGroup multicasting communication for apache tomcat web servers.

Database designer vs lead technician skills

Common database designer skills

Database Design, 14%
Data Management, 10%
JavaScript, 10%
PL/SQL, 9%
SAS, 5%
Microsoft SQL Server, 4%

Common lead technician skills

Java, 10%
Architecture, 7%
Digital Transformation, 6%
Customer Service, 6%
Database, 4%
HTML, 3%