H-1B demand profile: Database Architects. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 15-1199-06, employers filed 171 Labor Condition Applications for Database Architects positions across 104 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 100% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Database Architects among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Database Architects. Offered wages on LCAs range from $50,107 at the floor to $230,000 at the ceiling, with an average of $118,636. These figures reflect what employers commit to pay sponsored workers, not market averages, each offer must meet or exceed the DOL prevailing wage (Level I through IV) for the worksite, so the distribution tracks wage-level geography, years of experience, and regional cost of labor more than it does any single employer’s pay philosophy.

Where and who sponsors Database Architects. The top sponsor is Upstart Network, Inc with 10 petitions at an average offered wage of $163,200, followed by International Business Machines Corporation, Marketing Associates, LLC dba OneMagnify, V-Soft Consulting Group, INC. Geographically, CA leads with 35 filings (avg $152,089), followed by TX, MI, OH. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Database Architects actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.