Sharepoint architect vs senior sharepoint developer

The differences between sharepoint architects and senior sharepoint 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 sharepoint architect and a senior sharepoint developer. Additionally, a sharepoint architect has an average salary of $122,080, which is higher than the $112,152 average annual salary of a senior sharepoint developer.

The top three skills for a sharepoint architect include powershell, javascript and sql server. The most important skills for a senior sharepoint developer are javascript, visual studio, and CSS.

Sharepoint architect vs senior sharepoint developer overview

	Sharepoint Architect	Senior Sharepoint Developer
Yearly salary	$122,080	$112,152
Hourly rate	$58.69	$53.92
Growth rate	21%	13%
Number of jobs	78,079	81,622
Job satisfaction	-	-
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 66%	Bachelor's Degree, 71%
Average age	39	37
Years of experience	4	4

Sharepoint architect vs senior sharepoint developer salary

Sharepoint architects and senior sharepoint developers have different pay scales, as shown below.

	Sharepoint Architect	Senior Sharepoint Developer
Average salary	$122,080	$112,152
Salary range	Between $92,000 And $160,000	Between $88,000 And $142,000
Highest paying City	Seattle, WA	Seattle, WA
Highest paying state	Washington	Washington
Best paying company	SADA	Invesco
Best paying industry	Technology	Energy

Differences between sharepoint architect and senior sharepoint developer education

There are a few differences between a sharepoint architect and a senior sharepoint developer in terms of educational background:

	Sharepoint Architect	Senior Sharepoint Developer
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 66%	Bachelor's Degree, 71%
Most common major	Computer Science	Computer Science
Most common college	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Sharepoint architect vs senior sharepoint developer demographics

Here are the differences between sharepoint architects' and senior sharepoint developers' demographics:

	Sharepoint Architect	Senior Sharepoint Developer
Average age	39	37
Gender ratio	Male, 85.4% Female, 14.6%	Male, 76.8% Female, 23.2%
Race ratio	Black or African American, 4.4% Unknown, 4.8% Hispanic or Latino, 8.2% Asian, 29.9% White, 52.5% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.2%	Black or African American, 6.5% Unknown, 6.5% Hispanic or Latino, 12.1% Asian, 16.2% White, 58.3% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.4%
LGBT Percentage	8%	9%

Differences between sharepoint architect and senior sharepoint developer duties and responsibilities

Sharepoint architect example responsibilities.

Design the baseline SharePoint information architecture (manage metadata term store taxonomy and content type definitions) for Microsoft.com.
Act as a SharePoint platform administrator managing the overall architecture, infrastructure, user access, security and database management.
Lead a team of developers for converting InfoPath forms into Nintex form in response to Microsoft ending support for InfoPath forms.
Create custom MasterPages and CSS for better user acceptance.
Develop Asp.Net MVC SharePoint provider host App using CSOM.
Develop the project using PHP 4 and MySQL 3!

Senior sharepoint developer example responsibilities.

Act as a SharePoint platform administrator managing the overall architecture, infrastructure, user access, security and database management.
Involve in developing and modifying the pages in SharePoint such as adding HTML content and adding classes to CSS files.
Design & develop EDI process for exchange of data with external vendor via web services, flat files and XML files.
Implement a JQUERY script to implement auto complete functionality.
Used XML builder to update user mappings for each migration job.
Code custom apps with JQUERY for showing list data in user define formats.

Sharepoint architect vs senior sharepoint developer skills

Common sharepoint architect skills

PowerShell, 7%
JavaScript, 5%
SQL Server, 5%
Web Services, 5%
CSS, 5%
Infrastructure, 5%

Common senior sharepoint developer skills

JavaScript, 6%
Visual Studio, 5%
CSS, 5%
SQL Server, 5%
JQuery, 5%
HTML, 4%

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