Internet systems administrator vs web administrator

The differences between internet systems administrators and web administrators can be seen in a few details. Each job has different responsibilities and duties. While it typically takes 1-2 years to become an internet systems administrator, becoming a web administrator takes usually requires 2-4 years. Additionally, a web administrator has an average salary of $76,146, which is higher than the $74,584 average annual salary of an internet systems administrator.

The top three skills for an internet systems administrator include customer service, web application and linux. The most important skills for a web administrator are web application, wordpress, and HTML.

Internet systems administrator vs web administrator overview

	Internet Systems Administrator	Web Administrator
Yearly salary	$74,584	$76,146
Hourly rate	$35.86	$36.61
Growth rate	5%	5%
Number of jobs	119,012	60,809
Job satisfaction	-	-
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 48%	Bachelor's Degree, 66%
Average age	43	44
Years of experience	2	4

Internet systems administrator vs web administrator salary

Internet systems administrators and web administrators have different pay scales, as shown below.

	Internet Systems Administrator	Web Administrator
Average salary	$74,584	$76,146
Salary range	Between $58,000 And $94,000	Between $60,000 And $96,000
Highest paying City	-	San Francisco, CA
Highest paying state	-	Nevada
Best paying company	-	Zoom Video Communications
Best paying industry	-	Technology

Differences between internet systems administrator and web administrator education

There are a few differences between an internet systems administrator and a web administrator in terms of educational background:

	Internet Systems Administrator	Web Administrator
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 48%	Bachelor's Degree, 66%
Most common major	Business	Computer Science
Most common college	Stanford University	Stanford University

Internet systems administrator vs web administrator demographics

Here are the differences between internet systems administrators' and web administrators' demographics:

	Internet Systems Administrator	Web Administrator
Average age	43	44
Gender ratio	Male, 68.6% Female, 31.4%	Male, 63.1% Female, 36.9%
Race ratio	Black or African American, 9.1% Unknown, 5.1% Hispanic or Latino, 12.8% Asian, 10.6% White, 62.1% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.3%	Black or African American, 6.2% Unknown, 4.7% Hispanic or Latino, 8.8% Asian, 12.0% White, 67.7% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.5%
LGBT Percentage	9%	11%

Differences between internet systems administrator and web administrator duties and responsibilities

Internet systems administrator example responsibilities.

Supervise content process owners and manage vendor relationships for intranet development.
Lead enterprise-wide virtualization effort, overseeing and personally completing vendor/hardware qualifications, architecture/design, installation, configuration, migration and documentation.
Install and maintain Slackware Linux DNS and routing servers.
Help maintain DNS tables on 3 DNS servers.
Monitor clustered IIS server farm.
Support of Perl scripts and bash scripts.

Web administrator example responsibilities.

Coordinate releases with dev project leads and release management teams.
Used DevOps techniques with Saltstack and Jenkins to automate site deployment, updates and upgrades.
Maintain internal tools for managing site structure, data, security, using CMS and Java.
Develop Perl and shell scripting to automate network device configuration, testing; automate UNIX host configurations.
Create and monitor multiple domains with multiple manage servers, machines, node manager and cluster environment.
Develop many JACL, Jython, scripts and shell scripts to automate the maintenance process of the WebSphere.

Internet systems administrator vs web administrator skills

Common internet systems administrator skills

Customer Service, 14%
Web Application, 13%
Linux, 12%
Unix, 8%
SQL, 4%
Server Hardware, 3%

Common web administrator skills

Web Application, 11%
WordPress, 7%
HTML, 7%
CSS, 5%
JavaScript, 4%
SharePoint, 4%

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