H-1B demand profile: Database Architects. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 15-1243-00, employers filed 10,333 Labor Condition Applications for Database Architects positions across 3,096 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 97.7% 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 $57,512 at the floor to $624,000 at the ceiling, with an average of $139,654. 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 Amazon.com Services LLC with 673 petitions at an average offered wage of $145,050, followed by Deloitte Consulting LLP, Cognizant Technology Solutions US Corp, Amazon Web Services, Inc. Geographically, TX leads with 1,769 filings (avg $136,385), followed by CA, NJ, WA. 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.