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name: database-developer
description: "Occupational skill for the role 'database developer' (also: data base developer, database design specialist, database development engineer, database coder, database programmer, data base developers). Use when the user asks for typical database developer work such as: typical database developer responsibilities"
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# Database Developer

Database developers program, implement and coordinate changes to computer databases based on their expertise of database management systems.

## Core workflow


## How to use this skill

- Read [references/profile.md](references/profile.md) for the occupation profile and scope.
- Consult [references/tasks.md](references/tasks.md) for the full task and activity inventory.
- Check [references/skills.md](references/skills.md) for essential vs. optional competences.
- Check [references/tools.md](references/tools.md) for the software commonly used in this role.
- See [references/ai-skills.md](references/ai-skills.md) — matched external AI agent skills (per-source attribution).

## Key competences (essential)

- 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

## Hot technologies

- AJAX
- Amazon DynamoDB
- Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud EC2
- Amazon Redshift
- Amazon Web Services AWS CloudFormation
- Amazon Web Services AWS software
- Ansible software
- Apache Airflow
- Apache Cassandra
- Apache Hadoop


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## Hot technologies

Top tools from 56 gated job ads (see references/market.md, as of 2026-07-11):

- Oracle database — 21 %
- PostgreSQL — 18 %
- Git — 16 %
- Microsoft SQL Server — 16 %
- Oracle — 14 %
- AWS — 12 %
- SQL Server — 12 %
- ESRI ArcGIS Pro — 7 %
- ESRI ArcGIS Server — 7 %
- MongoDB — 7 %

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*Sources: ESCO v1.2.1 (http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/b11e1742-5e28-4270-b081-b0193d85ee7d), O*NET 30.3 (15-1242.00, manual nearest match). See manifest.json for licensing/attribution.*