Sharepoint designer vs web developer

The differences between sharepoint designers and web 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 designer and a web developer. Additionally, a sharepoint designer has an average salary of $85,544, which is higher than the $78,975 average annual salary of a web developer.

The top three skills for a sharepoint designer include html css, javascript and CSS. The most important skills for a web developer are javascript, html css, and HTML.

Sharepoint designer vs web developer overview

	Sharepoint Designer	Web Developer
Yearly salary	$85,544	$78,975
Hourly rate	$41.13	$37.97
Growth rate	13%	13%
Number of jobs	45,626	227,881
Job satisfaction	-	3
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 71%	Bachelor's Degree, 71%
Average age	37	37
Years of experience	4	4

Sharepoint designer vs web developer salary

Sharepoint designers and web developers have different pay scales, as shown below.

	Sharepoint Designer	Web Developer
Average salary	$85,544	$78,975
Salary range	Between $66,000 And $109,000	Between $60,000 And $103,000
Highest paying City	-	Bothell, WA
Highest paying state	-	Washington
Best paying company	-	Google
Best paying industry	-	Professional

Differences between sharepoint designer and web developer education

There are a few differences between a sharepoint designer and a web developer in terms of educational background:

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

Sharepoint designer vs web developer demographics

Here are the differences between sharepoint designers' and web developers' demographics:

	Sharepoint Designer	Web Developer
Average age	37	37
Gender ratio	Male, 69.7% Female, 30.3%	Male, 78.2% Female, 21.8%
Race ratio	Black or African American, 6.5% Unknown, 6.5% Hispanic or Latino, 12.0% Asian, 16.0% White, 58.5% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.4%	Black or African American, 6.4% Unknown, 6.5% Hispanic or Latino, 12.0% Asian, 15.9% White, 58.8% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.4%
LGBT Percentage	9%	9%

Differences between sharepoint designer and web developer duties and responsibilities

Sharepoint designer example responsibilities.

Integrate and automate business process within SharePoint utilizing key performance indicators and dashboards.
Manage sites with multiple user departments, apply principles and processes uniquely relate to SharePoint to support intranet and collaboration initiatives.
Design sites using CSS, JavaScript, and importing web parts to be used within site collections.
Design, deploy websites of moderate complexity utilizing HTML, XML, CSS and JSP programming languages.
Involve in editing and updating web sites using multiple languages, including HTML, XML, and CSS.
Implement active navigation and UI features using jQuery and JavaScript to display structure information regarding specific programs.

Web developer example responsibilities.

Lead front-end design and creation.
Manage high transaction databases including all database objects, triggers, procedures, user rights and functions.
Manage social media including Facebook advertising.
Interact with java controllers (JQUERY, AJAX, and JSON to write/read data from back end systems).
Used JSP, HTML, CSS and JavaScript to render the dynamic web pages (presentation layer) for the application.
Re-Design, update and maintain LinkWorth's WordPress plug-in using PHP and XML files to import data from LinkWorth's servers.

Sharepoint designer vs web developer skills

Common sharepoint designer skills

Html Css, 14%
JavaScript, 9%
CSS, 9%
HTML, 8%
JQuery, 8%
Sharepoint Sites, 8%

Common web developer skills

JavaScript, 8%
Html Css, 6%
HTML, 5%
CSS, 5%
Web Forms, 4%
JQuery, 4%