Senior abap developer vs lead developer

The differences between senior abap developers and lead developers can be seen in a few details. Each job has different responsibilities and duties. While it typically takes 6-8 years to become a senior abap developer, becoming a lead developer takes usually requires 2-4 years. Additionally, a lead developer has an average salary of $116,340, which is higher than the $105,873 average annual salary of a senior abap developer.

The top three skills for a senior abap developer include odata, SRM and PI. The most important skills for a lead developer are java, javascript, and architecture.

Senior abap developer vs lead developer overview

	Senior Abap Developer	Lead Developer
Yearly salary	$105,873	$116,340
Hourly rate	$50.90	$55.93
Growth rate	-7%	21%
Number of jobs	70,091	274,208
Job satisfaction	-	-
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 70%	Bachelor's Degree, 68%
Average age	47	39
Years of experience	8	4

Senior abap developer vs lead developer salary

Senior abap developers and lead developers have different pay scales, as shown below.

	Senior Abap Developer	Lead Developer
Average salary	$105,873	$116,340
Salary range	Between $80,000 And $139,000	Between $83,000 And $161,000
Highest paying City	Foster City, CA	San Francisco, CA
Highest paying state	Washington	California
Best paying company	Apple	Mayo Clinic
Best paying industry	Hospitality	Retail

Differences between senior abap developer and lead developer education

There are a few differences between a senior abap developer and a lead developer in terms of educational background:

	Senior Abap Developer	Lead Developer
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 70%	Bachelor's Degree, 68%
Most common major	Computer Science	Computer Science
Most common college	-	Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Senior abap developer vs lead developer demographics

Here are the differences between senior abap developers' and lead developers' demographics:

	Senior Abap Developer	Lead Developer
Average age	47	39
Gender ratio	Male, 84.0% Female, 16.0%	Male, 76.4% Female, 23.6%
Race ratio	Black or African American, 4.1% Unknown, 4.4% Hispanic or Latino, 7.3% Asian, 25.8% White, 58.2% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.2%	Black or African American, 4.5% Unknown, 4.8% Hispanic or Latino, 8.2% Asian, 29.9% White, 52.5% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.2%
LGBT Percentage	11%	8%

Differences between senior abap developer and lead developer duties and responsibilities

Senior abap developer example responsibilities.

Analyze and manage the project throughout SDLC, written/review specification documents.
Used XML and SPROXY).
Access control for RFC callbacks, trust relationships.
Design a vendor master interface between SRM and ECC systems.
Create a custom screen using roadmap UI element in Webdynpro.
Help the junior team for their issues and in debugging.

Lead developer example responsibilities.

Develop UNIX shell scripts to automate the process of running jobs/batches for scheduling and process the feeds.
Consult on the database schema, create business environments, write stored procedures in PL/SQL, authore reports and manage security.
Configure and manage JGroup multicasting communication for apache tomcat web servers.
Develop an UI tool for inbound and outbound file monitoring tool using HTML, CSS, JavaScript etc.
Used HTML5 create forms and tables to display client's personal information which is fetched from back-end by using AJAX.
Object orient design and implementation with agile application development using scrum.

Senior abap developer vs lead developer skills

Common senior abap developer skills

OData, 11%
SRM, 7%
PI, 6%
MM, 4%
BDC, 4%
IDOC, 4%

Common lead developer skills

Java, 10%
JavaScript, 5%
Architecture, 5%
C++, 4%
Web Application, 4%
GIT, 4%