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Database Administrator
AIQ Score
Critical180K
Jobs in India
₹6–15 LPA
Typical salary
-4%
Growth outlook
2-4y
Impact timeline
What this means
AIQ Score 80/100 — Critical. Most of this work is directly exposed to AI-driven change.
Autonomous databases absorb routine DBA work. Survivors rebrand as data platform engineers owning governance and reliability.
The AIQ Score measures how exposed your work is to AI-driven change. It is presented on a 0–100 scale, with higher scores indicating greater exposure.
This Database Administrator score is the market average. Your own exposure depends on the tasks you actually do.
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
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).