Media developer vs developer

The differences between media developers 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 media developer and a developer. Additionally, a developer has an average salary of $100,076, which is higher than the $63,241 average annual salary of a media developer.

The top three skills for a media developer include javascript, CSS and python. The most important skills for a developer are javascript, python, and java.

Media developer vs developer overview

	Media Developer	Developer
Yearly salary	$63,241	$100,076
Hourly rate	$30.40	$48.11
Growth rate	13%	21%
Number of jobs	84,346	262,570
Job satisfaction	-	5
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 71%	Bachelor's Degree, 71%
Average age	37	39
Years of experience	4	4

Media developer vs developer salary

Media developers and developers have different pay scales, as shown below.

	Media Developer	Developer
Average salary	$63,241	$100,076
Salary range	Between $47,000 And $84,000	Between $76,000 And $131,000
Highest paying City	San Mateo, CA	-
Highest paying state	California	Washington
Best paying company	Amazon	-
Best paying industry	Manufacturing	Finance

Differences between media developer and developer education

There are a few differences between a media developer and a developer in terms of educational background:

	Media Developer	Developer
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 71%	Bachelor's Degree, 71%
Most common major	Graphic Design	Computer Science
Most common college	Stanford University	Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Media developer vs developer demographics

Here are the differences between media developers' and developers' demographics:

	Media Developer	Developer
Average age	37	39
Gender ratio	Male, 68.6% Female, 31.4%	Male, 74.9% Female, 25.1%
Race ratio	Black or African American, 7.0% Unknown, 6.7% Hispanic or Latino, 13.0% Asian, 12.4% White, 60.5% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.4%	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	9%	8%

Differences between media developer and developer duties and responsibilities

Media developer example responsibilities.

Manage and create updates to company website including graphics, animation and overall functionality.
Web and user experience design/development using XML, HTML, and CSS, JavaScript.
Develop client-side JavaScript and DHTML for several sites.
Produce dynamic content for AOL local channels coding in HTML and Tcl.
Supervise a team of html developers in updating and creatingcontent for students and educators.
Create interactive GUI which is used to classify any web page base on the language of its content.

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.

Media developer vs developer skills

Common media developer skills

JavaScript, 8%
CSS, 7%
Python, 6%
HTML, 5%
Video Production, 5%
Graphic Design, 5%

Common developer skills

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