Database technician vs lead technician

The differences between database technicians 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 technician, 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 $67,933 average annual salary of a database technician.

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

Database technician vs lead technician overview

	Database Technician	Lead Technician
Yearly salary	$67,933	$90,615
Hourly rate	$32.66	$43.56
Growth rate	9%	10%
Number of jobs	25,670	250,590
Job satisfaction	-	-
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 64%	Bachelor's Degree, 50%
Average age	46	42
Years of experience	4	2

Database technician vs lead technician salary

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

	Database Technician	Lead Technician
Average salary	$67,933	$90,615
Salary range	Between $42,000 And $109,000	Between $67,000 And $121,000
Highest paying City	-	San Francisco, CA
Highest paying state	-	California
Best paying company	-	Meta
Best paying industry	-	Retail

Differences between database technician and lead technician education

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

	Database Technician	Lead Technician
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 64%	Bachelor's Degree, 50%
Most common major	Business	Computer Science
Most common college	Stanford University	Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Database technician vs lead technician demographics

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

	Database Technician	Lead Technician
Average age	46	42
Gender ratio	Male, 61.0% Female, 39.0%	Male, 83.4% Female, 16.6%
Race ratio	Black or African American, 8.2% Unknown, 5.2% Hispanic or Latino, 9.3% Asian, 17.6% White, 59.0% 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 technician and lead technician duties and responsibilities

Database technician example responsibilities.

Implement and automate existing manual process, to create CRF by creating new database objects in SQL and macro in excel.
Maintain and update plant SharePoint site, improve plant wide communications.
Develop DTS packages to transfer data need by the companies external clients.
Gain hand-on experience in basic operation of DBA including backup, migration, checking database system etc.
Record daily scrum notes for the DBA team, identify impediments and work to develop solutions to them.
Design and build control system for overhead conveyor including control panel, peripheral sensors, PLC and VFD programming.

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 technician vs lead technician skills

Common database technician skills

Data Entry, 22%
Database Management, 11%
Database Support, 8%
PL/SQL, 7%
Database Systems, 5%
Microsoft SQL Server, 4%

Common lead technician skills

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