Market evidence report — database-administrator

Source: 56 real job ads (JSearch API, countries: us 56), extracted into the MSSQL evidence store; as of 2026-07-10. This report contains extracted, aggregated facts only — no ad text is reproduced (copyright / platform terms).

Seniority distribution

Seniority	Ads	Share
mid	39	70 %
senior	11	20 %
lead	4	7 %
junior	1	2 %
n/a	1	2 %

Tools — full market ranking

#	Item	Ads	Share
1	Oracle	20	36 %
2	Microsoft SQL Server	13	23 %
3	SQL Server	13	23 %
4	PostgreSQL	12	21 %
5	MySQL	8	14 %
6	Oracle Database	8	14 %
7	AWS	6	11 %
8	AWS RDS	6	11 %
9	Azure	5	9 %
10	Microsoft Azure	5	9 %
11	SYBASE	5	9 %
12	Kubernetes	4	7 %
13	MongoDB	4	7 %
14	Python	4	7 %
15	SharePoint	4	7 %
16	Docker	3	5 %
17	Oracle Data Guard	3	5 %
18	Windows Server	3	5 %

Hard skills — full market ranking

#	Item	Ads	Share
1	database administration	37	66 %
2	performance tuning	27	48 %
3	data modeling	22	39 %
4	backup and recovery	16	29 %
5	disaster recovery	16	29 %
6	database design	12	21 %
7	data security	10	18 %
8	query optimization	10	18 %
9	troubleshooting	10	18 %
10	capacity planning	9	16 %
11	data migration	9	16 %
12	data analysis	6	11 %
13	data replication	5	9 %
14	performance monitoring	5	9 %
15	security implementation	5	9 %
16	data management	4	7 %
17	database development	4	7 %
18	database management	4	7 %
19	index maintenance	4	7 %
20	data architecture	3	5 %
21	data governance	3	5 %
22	data integration	3	5 %
23	database configuration	3	5 %
24	database installation	3	5 %
25	disaster recovery planning	3	5 %
26	performance analysis	3	5 %
27	performance optimization	3	5 %
28	pl/sql development	3	5 %
29	reporting	3	5 %
30	root cause analysis	3	5 %
31	schema design	3	5 %
32	security administration	3	5 %
33	sql database administration	3	5 %
34	sql development	3	5 %
35	sql query optimization	3	5 %
36	sql scripting	3	5 %

Methods — full market ranking

#	Item	Ads	Share
1	agile development	4	7 %
2	scrum	4	7 %
3	CI/CD pipelines	3	5 %

Responsibilities — full market ranking

#	Item	Ads	Share
1	database administration	15	27 %
2	database maintenance	10	18 %
3	database installation	8	14 %
4	performance tuning	8	14 %
5	security implementation	8	14 %
6	performance monitoring	7	12 %
7	troubleshooting	6	11 %
8	database monitoring	5	9 %
9	database configuration	4	7 %
10	documentation creation	4	7 %
11	documentation maintenance	4	7 %
12	policy implementation	4	7 %
13	security administration	4	7 %
14	user account management	4	7 %
15	capacity planning	3	5 %
16	data organization	3	5 %
17	database management	3	5 %
18	incident resolution	3	5 %
19	report generation	3	5 %
20	system monitoring	3	5 %
21	technical support	3	5 %

Regional breakdown

Corpus note: 56 relevant ads in total — below the 100-ad target for a fully reliable ranking. Percentages above should be read as indicative.

US (us)

56 ads.

Top hard skills:

database administration — 66 % (37 ads)
performance tuning — 48 % (27 ads)
data modeling — 39 % (22 ads)
backup and recovery — 29 % (16 ads)
disaster recovery — 29 % (16 ads)
database design — 21 % (12 ads)
data security — 18 % (10 ads)
query optimization — 18 % (10 ads)
troubleshooting — 18 % (10 ads)
capacity planning — 16 % (9 ads)

Top tools:

Oracle — 36 % (20 ads)
Microsoft SQL Server — 23 % (13 ads)
SQL Server — 23 % (13 ads)
PostgreSQL — 21 % (12 ads)
MySQL — 14 % (8 ads)
Oracle Database — 14 % (8 ads)
AWS — 11 % (6 ads)
AWS RDS — 11 % (6 ads)
Azure — 9 % (5 ads)
Microsoft Azure — 9 % (5 ads)

Seniority: mid 70 % · senior 20 % · lead 7 % · junior 2 % · n/a 2 %

UK (gb)

Insufficient evidence — 0 ads (minimum for a regional ranking: 30). No ranking is reported for this region.

EU/DACH (de, at, ch, nl)