Senior noc technician vs noc technician

The differences between senior noc technicians and noc technicians can be seen in a few details. Each job has different responsibilities and duties. It typically takes 1-2 years to become both a senior noc technician and a noc technician. Additionally, a senior noc technician has an average salary of $77,518, which is higher than the $45,884 average annual salary of a noc technician.

The top three skills for a senior noc technician include linux, network operations and tcp ip. The most important skills for a noc technician are customer service, troubleshoot, and network operations.

Senior noc technician vs noc technician overview

	Senior NOC Technician	NOC Technician
Yearly salary	$77,518	$45,884
Hourly rate	$37.27	$22.06
Growth rate	5%	5%
Number of jobs	12,979	48,270
Job satisfaction	-	-
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 46%	Bachelor's Degree, 50%
Average age	43	43
Years of experience	2	2

Senior noc technician vs noc technician salary

Senior noc technicians and noc technicians have different pay scales, as shown below.

	Senior NOC Technician	NOC Technician
Average salary	$77,518	$45,884
Salary range	Between $46,000 And $130,000	Between $31,000 And $67,000
Highest paying City	-	Washington, DC
Highest paying state	-	Maryland
Best paying company	-	Duquesne Light Company
Best paying industry	-	Professional

Differences between senior noc technician and noc technician education

There are a few differences between a senior noc technician and a noc technician in terms of educational background:

	Senior NOC Technician	NOC Technician
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 46%	Bachelor's Degree, 50%
Most common major	Computer Information Systems	Computer Information Systems
Most common college	University of Southern California	University of Pennsylvania

Senior noc technician vs noc technician demographics

Here are the differences between senior noc technicians' and noc technicians' demographics:

	Senior NOC Technician	NOC Technician
Average age	43	43
Gender ratio	Male, 85.7% Female, 14.3%	Male, 88.5% Female, 11.5%
Race ratio	Black or African American, 8.9% Unknown, 5.1% Hispanic or Latino, 12.6% Asian, 8.8% White, 64.4% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.3%	Black or African American, 9.2% Unknown, 5.1% Hispanic or Latino, 12.9% Asian, 8.7% White, 63.7% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.3%
LGBT Percentage	9%	9%

Differences between senior noc technician and noc technician duties and responsibilities

Senior noc technician example responsibilities.

Recommend, engineer and manage office systems, including centralize productivity and communication systems such as e-mail and centralize desktop environments.
Rack and stack network equipment (routers, servers, switches and any other equipment).
Provide customer support on internet, email, webhosting and VoIP.
Receive calls and tickets for connectivity issues ranging from basic broadband to fiber connections.
Serve as the hands and ears of technicians dispatch to hotels to replace faulty servers, switches, and routers.
Recommend, engineer and manage office systems, including centralize productivity and communication systems such as e-mail and centralize desktop environments.

Noc technician example responsibilities.

Manage troubleshooting for user side computer and Novell problems.
Manage windows server network configuration, disks and storage access requests.
Manage and administer VPNs using PPTP and GRE tunneling with TACLANE and FASTLANE encryption.
Install, setup, configure, manage and maintain desktop, laptop, and server equipment for multiple clients.
Manage core-network including all Cisco infrastructure elements including firewalls and perimeter routers.
Engineer and manage creation of co-registration Java modules for integration with Akamai streaming servers.

Senior noc technician vs noc technician skills

Common senior noc technician skills

Linux, 8%
Network Operations, 8%
Tcp Ip, 7%
SolarWinds, 6%
Switches, 6%
Escalate, 6%

Common noc technician skills

Customer Service, 10%
Troubleshoot, 9%
Network Operations, 5%
Switches, 5%
Technical Support, 4%
Routers, 4%