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Which roles ask for Databases at tech companies · 146 roles · 90 days to Oct 7, 2026

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146 roles counted that list Databases, one per company, title and level; 365 postings in the window.

In short

Databases: listed in 146 roles at tech companies whose requirements we read, in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026. It was required in 126 and preferred in 20. The largest group is software engineer roles: 91 of 146 (62%).

Required
126 of 146 (86%)
Of the roles that list Databases
Preferred
20 of 146 (14%)
Of the roles that list Databases
Largest group
91 of 146 (62%)
Software engineer

Roles that ask for Databases

Roles listing Databases, by title family. Where the role has a page, the count is also out of that role's roles whose requirements we read.

RoleRolesOf the role's roles we read
Software engineer9191 of 719 (13%)
Data engineer1313 of 99 (13%)
QA engineer88 of 63 (13%)
DevOps engineer66 of 58 (10%)
Site reliability engineer66 of 70 (9%)
Platform engineer55 of 57 (9%)
Data scientist44 of 112 (4%)
AI engineer22 of 70 (3%)
Data analyst22 of 47
Forward deployed engineer22 of 63 (3%)

Companies that ask for it most

Asked alongside

Out of the 146 Databases roles whose requirements we read: the other skills they ask for. At most 10 per list, those asked for most.

Required
SkillRoles asking
Python
59 of 146 (40%)
SQL
50 of 146 (34%)
AWS
46 of 146 (32%)
CI/CD
34 of 146 (23%)
Azure
32 of 146 (22%)
Go
31 of 146 (21%)
PostgreSQL
31 of 146 (21%)
REST
30 of 146 (21%)
TypeScript
30 of 146 (21%)
Docker
29 of 146 (20%)
Preferred
SkillRoles asking
Kubernetes
21 of 146 (14%)
Docker
20 of 146 (14%)
AWS
17 of 146 (12%)
CI/CD
17 of 146 (12%)
AI
15 of 146 (10%)
Python
15 of 146 (10%)
Azure
13 of 146 (9%)
GCP
11 of 146 (8%)
Open Source
11 of 146 (8%)
Kafka
10 of 146 (7%)

Experience

Of the 75 roles that state years

Each line counts roles asking for at least that many years, so the lines overlap.

1+ year
75 of 75 (100%)
2+ years
75 of 75 (100%)
3+ years
70 of 75 (93%)
5+ years
51 of 75 (68%)
8+ years
17 of 75 (23%)
10+ years
5 of 75 (7%)

Degree

Of the 95 roles we could read for it

Required
19 of 95 (20%)
Required, or experience instead
19 of 95 (20%)
Preferred
4 of 95 (4%)
Not mentioned
53 of 95 (56%)

Pay and remote work

Of the 146 roles we could read for it. Pay these roles state, not what the skill pays.

Median stated pay
$145.5k a year
Roles stating pay
51 of 146 (35%)
Remote roles
112 of 146 (77%)

How we count: 146 roles from 125 employers in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026, each role counted once however many boards post it. Skills are counted out of the roles whose requirements we read. Roles are not filtered by country. Methodology