Occupation Atlasdatabase developer
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/b11e1742-5e28-4270-b081-b0193d85ee7d
database developer
Database developers program, implement and coordinate changes to computer databases based on their expertise of database management systems.
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Job Zone
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
Zone 4: Considerable Preparation Needed
Considerable preparation. Usually a bachelor's degree plus several years of work-related experience, knowledge, or training.
Job Zone is O*NET's rating of how much education, experience and training an occupation typically needs — a property of the work, not of anyone doing it.
Occupational interest profile
CIEConventional · Investigative · Enterprising — the three strongest interests, in order
- C Conventional6.61
- I Investigative4.83
- E Enterprising2.94
- R Realistic2.83
- S Social2.29
- A Artistic1.20
RIASEC (Holland) interests on O*NET's 0–7 scale: what the work draws on, not what any individual prefers. Hover a row for what each dimension means.
Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from Database Administrators (15-1242.00): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, a broader O*NET occupation that includes this one, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (20)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- apply information security policies
- balance database resources
- collect customer feedback on applications
- create data models
- data extraction, transformation and loading tools
- data quality assessment
- data storage
- database development tools
- database management systems
- estimate duration of work
- identify customer requirements
- interpret technical texts
- perform backups
- query languages
- report analysis results
- resource description framework query language
- test ICT queries
- use an application-specific interface
- use databases
- write database documentation
Optional (96)
- ABAP
- AJAX
- APL
- ASP.NET
- Ajax Framework
- Assembly (computer programming)
- C#
- C++
- CA Datacom/DB
- COBOL
- CoffeeScript
- Common Lisp
- DB2
- Erlang
- Filemaker (database management systems)
- Groovy
- Haskell
- IBM InfoSphere DataStage
- IBM InfoSphere Information Server
- IBM Informix
- ICT infrastructure
- ICT power consumption
- Informatica PowerCenter
- Java (computer programming)
- JavaScript
- JavaScript Framework
- LDAP
- LINQ
- Lisp
- MATLAB
- MDX
- ML (computer programming)
- MarkLogic
- Microsoft Access
- Microsoft Visual C++
- MySQL
- N1QL
- ObjectStore
- Objective-C
- OpenEdge Advanced Business Language
- OpenEdge Database
- Oracle Application Development Framework
- Oracle Data Integrator
- Oracle Relational Database
- Oracle Warehouse Builder
- PHP
- Pascal (computer programming)
- Pentaho Data Integration
- Perl
- PostgreSQL
- Prolog (computer programming)
- Python (computer programming)
- QlikView Expressor
- R
- Ruby (computer programming)
- SAP Data Services
- SAP R3
- SAS Data Management
- SAS language
- SPARQL
- SQL
- SQL Server
- SQL Server Integration Services
- Scala
- Scratch (computer programming)
- Smalltalk (computer programming)
- Swift (computer programming)
- Teradata Database
- TripleStore
- TypeScript
- VBScript
- Visual Basic
- WordPress
- XQuery
- address problems critically
- computer programming
- create solutions to problems
- data engineering
- execute ICT audits
- execute analytical mathematical calculations
- execute integration testing
- execute software tests
- hardware architectures
- identify ICT security risks
- integrate system components
- manage business knowledge
- manage cloud data and storage
- manage digital documents
- perform data mining
- store digital data and systems
- use back-up and recovery tools
- use personal organization software
- use query languages
- use software design patterns
- use spreadsheets software
- verify formal ICT specifications
O*NET equivalents
From the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, strongest match first. A broader occupation takes in this one; a narrower one is a part of it.
Closest occupations
Compare any occupation →ESCO occupations that share the most of this occupation's 20 essential skills. A plain count, not a hidden score.
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