Design team lead vs developer

The differences between design team leads and developers can be seen in a few details. Each job has different responsibilities and duties. It typically takes 2-4 years to become both a design team lead and a developer. Additionally, a developer has an average salary of $100,076, which is higher than the $94,522 average annual salary of a design team lead.

The top three skills for a design team lead include sketch, CAD and product design. The most important skills for a developer are javascript, python, and java.

Design team lead vs developer overview

	Design Team Lead	Developer
Yearly salary	$94,522	$100,076
Hourly rate	$45.44	$48.11
Growth rate	21%	21%
Number of jobs	61,298	262,570
Job satisfaction	-	5
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 70%	Bachelor's Degree, 71%
Average age	39	39
Years of experience	4	4

Design team lead vs developer salary

Design team leads and developers have different pay scales, as shown below.

	Design Team Lead	Developer
Average salary	$94,522	$100,076
Salary range	Between $66,000 And $134,000	Between $76,000 And $131,000
Highest paying City	San Francisco, CA	-
Highest paying state	New York	Washington
Best paying company	TEKsystems	-
Best paying industry	-	Finance

Differences between design team lead and developer education

There are a few differences between a design team lead and a developer in terms of educational background:

	Design Team Lead	Developer
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 70%	Bachelor's Degree, 71%
Most common major	Mechanical Engineering	Computer Science
Most common college	Georgia Institute of Technology	Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Design team lead vs developer demographics

Here are the differences between design team leads' and developers' demographics:

	Design Team Lead	Developer
Average age	39	39
Gender ratio	Male, 71.5% Female, 28.5%	Male, 74.9% Female, 25.1%
Race ratio	Black or African American, 4.4% Unknown, 4.8% Hispanic or Latino, 8.1% Asian, 30.0% White, 52.5% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.2%	Black or African American, 4.6% Unknown, 4.9% Hispanic or Latino, 8.4% Asian, 29.8% White, 52.2% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.2%
LGBT Percentage	8%	8%

Differences between design team lead and developer duties and responsibilities

Design team lead example responsibilities.

Deliver high-level n-tier architecture design, managing project expectations and timetables throughout all phases of development process.
Simulate 3-D and 2-D Matlab contours.
Design high-quality HTML base sales and service email marketing campaigns in a fast pace/high volume atmosphere.
Adapt key attributes of HTML screens for translation into multiple languages and support on various browsers.
Assist in calculating, designing, drafting, and 3D modeling in SolidWorks of a roadside turbine.
Coordinate with QA to ensure that the solution develop is of acceptable quality as per the company standards.

Developer example responsibilities.

Manage continuous integration, configure the servers using Jenkins.
Analyze and manage the project throughout SDLC, written/review specification documents.
Configure and manage JGroup multicasting communication for apache tomcat web servers.
Upgrade internal loan and prospect tracking system to be more responsive and utilizing the latest in CSS & HTML.
Implement this application, using object-orient Perl to dynamically generate HTML with embed JavaScript, interacting with back-end databases via DBI/DBD.
Integrate content feeds via JSON, XML, and RSS from both internal and external sources into web content management components.

Design team lead vs developer skills

Common design team lead skills

Sketch, 10%
CAD, 10%
Product Design, 9%
Architecture, 8%
Design Concepts, 4%
Subject Matter Experts, 4%

Common developer skills

JavaScript, 7%
Python, 6%
Java, 6%
C++, 5%
API, 4%
CSS, 4%