If any IT job can be considered secure, you would think it would be that of a database administrator. After all, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Outlook Handbook forecasts an 11 percent increase in DBA employment from 2014 to 2024. That's a faster rate than the average for all occupations, and just a tick below the 12 percent growth rate projected by the agency for all computer jobs.
Before any of you DBAs out there get too comfortable about your employment prospects, keep in mind that the database skillset continues the transformation triggered by the rise of cloud computing and database as a service (DBaaS). According to the BLS numbers, DBA employment at cloud service providers will grow by 26% in the decade ending in 2024.
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