Database Architects — Career Decision Dashboard
United States
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Report generated from official BLS OEWS and O*NET data — United States.
Median annual wage
$139,500
United States, 2025
Employment
67,140
United States, 2025
Typical education
Bachelor's Degree
Job Zone 4
Skills identified
35
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Career overview
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.
- O*NET code
- 15-1243.00
- Job zone
- 4
- Experience required
- Over 4 years, up to and including 6 years
Typical tasks
- Develop and document database architectures.
- Collaborate with system architects, software architects, design analysts, and others to understand business or industry requirements.
- Develop database architectural strategies at the modeling, design and implementation stages to address business or industry requirements.
- Design databases to support business applications, ensuring system scalability, security, performance, and reliability.
- Develop data models for applications, metadata tables, views or related database structures.
- Design database applications, such as interfaces, data transfer mechanisms, global temporary tables, data partitions, and function-based indexes to enable efficient access of the generic database structure.
- Develop methods for integrating different products so they work properly together, such as customizing commercial databases to fit specific needs.
- Create and enforce database development standards.
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Salary analysis — United States
10th percentile
$86,240
25th percentile
$109,370
75th percentile
$169,290
90th percentile
$204,000
Most important skills
- Critical Thinking3.9
- Complex Problem Solving3.9
- Reading Comprehension3.9
- Judgment and Decision Making3.9
- Systems Analysis3.8
- Active Listening3.5
- Speaking3.5
- Programming3.4
- Active Learning3.3
- Systems Evaluation3.3
- Operations Analysis3.1
- Writing3.1
What skills do you need?
Select the skills you already have
Skills listed are those O*NET rates at importance 3.0 or above for this occupation. Set your own level on the same 0–7 O*NET scale.
Skill coverage
0%
0 of 19 identified skills
Matched
0
Missing
19
Your selected skills cover approximately 0% of the skills identified for this occupation in O*NET. This is a coverage measure of listed skills only — it is not a qualification, hiring or interview outcome.
Skills to develop
| Skill | Importance | Required level | Your level | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading Comprehension | 3.9 | 4.1 | Not selected | 4.1 |
| Complex Problem Solving | 3.9 | 4.0 | Not selected | 4.0 |
| Critical Thinking | 3.9 | 3.9 | Not selected | 3.9 |
| Judgment and Decision Making | 3.9 | 3.9 | Not selected | 3.9 |
| Systems Analysis | 3.8 | 3.8 | Not selected | 3.8 |
| Programming | 3.4 | 4.1 | Not selected | 4.1 |
| Speaking | 3.5 | 3.9 | Not selected | 3.9 |
| Active Listening | 3.5 | 3.8 | Not selected | 3.8 |
| Systems Evaluation | 3.3 | 3.8 | Not selected | 3.8 |
| Writing | 3.1 | 3.9 | Not selected | 3.9 |
| Active Learning | 3.3 | 3.6 | Not selected | 3.6 |
| Monitoring | 3.1 | 3.6 | Not selected | 3.6 |
| Operations Analysis | 3.1 | 3.4 | Not selected | 3.4 |
| Mathematics | 3.0 | 3.1 | Not selected | 3.1 |
| Coordination | 3.0 | 3.1 | Not selected | 3.1 |
| Technology Design | 3.0 | 3.0 | Not selected | 3.0 |
| Time Management | 3.0 | 3.0 | Not selected | 3.0 |
| Social Perceptiveness | 3.0 | 3.0 | Not selected | 3.0 |
| Service Orientation | 3.0 | 3.0 | Not selected | 3.0 |
Ordered by required level gap multiplied by O*NET importance. No prediction or recommendation is implied.
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Compare with Database ArchitectsHow salary varies by location
| Location | Median | Employment | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| San Jose, CA | $197,960 | 1,120 | 2025 |
| San Francisco, CA | $175,860 | 1,600 | 2025 |
| Reno, NV | $170,390 | 80 | 2025 |
| CA | $170,160 | 6,210 | 2025 |
| Sacramento, CA | $169,310 | 230 | 2025 |
| Oxnard, CA | $168,390 | 60 | 2025 |
| Philadelphia, PA | $163,590 | 1,500 | 2025 |
| Bridgeport, CT | $163,350 | 170 | 2025 |
| Washington, DC | $162,870 | 4,740 | 2025 |
| Denver, CO | $162,640 | 1,360 | 2025 |
| Springfield, MA | $161,730 | 50 | 2025 |
| MA | $161,650 | 2,690 | 2025 |
| Boston, MA | $161,650 | 2,120 | 2025 |
| Bloomington, IL | $161,430 | 90 | 2025 |
| Waterbury, CT | $160,480 | — | 2025 |
| VA | $160,360 | 5,260 | 2025 |
| Allentown, PA | $160,300 | 110 | 2025 |
| Santa Maria, CA | $159,240 | 40 | 2025 |
| North Port, FL | $157,730 | 30 | 2025 |
| Flint, MI | $157,100 | 30 | 2025 |
Career transition paths
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Salary and employment data: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, 2025 (May 2025 release).
Figures are periodic published survey snapshots, not real-time market rates.