Technology · India · ISCO 2521
Database Administrator
180K
Jobs in India
₹6–15 LPA
Typical salary
-4%
Growth outlook
2-4y
Impact timeline
What this means
Autonomous databases absorb routine DBA work. Survivors rebrand as data platform engineers owning governance and reliability.
Recommended AI tools
Adopt these early — AI fluency is becoming the baseline expectation in this role.
Your next three moves
- Transition from DBA to data platform engineering
- Add cloud database and data governance skills
- Own performance tuning of AI-era workloads
Where AI touches this job
Routine maintenance and patching
80%
Query optimisation
60%
Capacity planning
35%
Disaster recovery ownership
20%
Skills that keep you durable
Related roles
Your personalised number
Generic scores inform. Your AIQ Score tells you where you stand.
Top 50 in-demand Indian roles. Exposure grounded in ILO, WEF Future of Jobs 2025, OECD and NCO 2015 (DGE). Salaries are indicative India medians (₹ LPA). Scores are exposure estimates, not displacement predictions. Data sources: ILO, WEF Future of Jobs 2025, OECD Employment Outlook, DGE/NCO 2015, PwC AI Jobs Barometer 2025, McKinsey (2025), Goldman Sachs (2025-26).