Headline risk
22%
Moderate RiskDatabase architects
United States AI Work Index tracks this occupation on the shared structural baseline and then layers on local demand resilience, wages, and confidence.
Why This Score
Share of job tasks that overlap with current AI capabilities
Median annual wage
Projected employment change over 10 years
Typical preparation needed for this occupation
Occupation profile
Design strategies for enterprise databases, data warehouse systems, and multidimensional networks. Set standards for database operations, programming, query processes, and security. Model, design, and construct large relational databases or data warehouses. Create and optimize data models for warehouse infrastructure and workflow. Integrate new systems with existing warehouse structure and refine system performance and functionality.
Task evidence
98% weighted task match · 56% effective coverage
Scores combine AI task overlap, human advantages, and local demand. How it works
United States Now
Median Wage
USD 135,980
Employment 2024
66.9K
Projected Change (2024–34)
8.7%
Openings (2024–34)
4.0K
Wage distribution
Demand outlook
Overall employment of database administrators and architects is projected to grow 4 percent from 2024 to 2034, about as fast as the average for all occupations.
Role Profile
Tasks
- 1. Develop and document database architectures. AI use: 83%
- 2. Collaborate with system architects, software architects, design analysts, and others to understand business or industry requirements. AI use: 77%
- 3. Develop database architectural strategies at the modeling, design and implementation stages to address business or industry requirements. AI use: 74%
- 4. Develop data warehouse process models, including sourcing, loading, transformation, and extraction. AI use: 80%
- 5. Verify the structure, accuracy, or quality of warehouse data. AI use: 0%
- 6. Design databases to support business applications, ensuring system scalability, security, performance, and reliability. AI use: 0%
Technologies
Requirements
Work context
Worker profile
Median age 44.1 · 148K employed
Under 25: 1% · 25–54: 74% · 55+: 26%
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Source coverage
11/11 source families · O*NET 30.2 / OEWS 2024 / ORS 2025 / OOH 2025-08-28 / Projections 2024-34 / CPS 2025 / Anthropic task penetration
Mapping quality
title_match · employment series present
Narrative & sources
Database administrators and architects create or organize systems to store and secure data.
Many database administrators and architects work in firms that provide computer design services or in industries that have large databases, such educational institutions and insurance companies. Most database administrators and architects work full time.
Database administrators and architects typically need a bachelor’s degree in computer and information technology or a related field.
The median annual wage for database administrators was $104,620 in May 2024.
Overall employment of database administrators and architects is projected to grow 4 percent from 2024 to 2034, about as fast as the average for all occupations.
Published limitations
This page shows the local country layer, not realised individual job outcomes. The global structural baseline is shared across countries; only the local demand and wage layer changes here.
Built from O*NET occupation descriptions, task statements, technology skills, work context, Job Zones, Anthropic task penetration, BLS OEWS wages, BLS projection tables, BLS ORS requirements, BLS OOH narrative content, BLS skills data, and BLS CPS occupation age tables.