Database administrator
Statistics, Geography and Computer Science at GCSE, then a Level 3 apprenticeship straight after school.
the nearest apprenticeship standard, the same level as A levels · 2 standards and 10 school subjects share ideas with this job · Skills England, ESCO, DfE subject content
Level 3 — England’s qualification levels run 1–8: GCSE is 2, A level is 3, a bachelor’s degree is 6.
Which subjects build towards it?
Bar — strength of the overlap relative to the strongest subject (1.00); not a grade or an entry requirement.
DfE subject content · matched to the apprenticeship standards below by sch.today
Statistics leads because the job and the course share the same ideas: format selection, outlier, mean, standard deviation.
All subjects and shared ideas10
| Subject | Match | Shared ideas |
|---|---|---|
| GCSE Statistics | 1.00 | format selection, outlier, mean, standard deviation, qualitative data |
| A level Geography | 0.74 | data presentation, source evaluation, data accuracy, climate change, mean |
| GCSE Computer Science | 0.61 | integer, string, data structure, privacy, data type |
| A level Computer Science | 0.42 | data type, operating systems, database, data structure, documentation |
| A level Mathematics | 0.38 | outlier, data distribution, standard deviation, perform data cleansing, data presentation |
| GCSE Mathematics | 0.38 | integer, mean, outlier, chart |
| GCSE Geography | 0.37 | mean, chart, qualitative data, quantitative data, presentation |
| GCSE Psychology | 0.28 | mean, qualitative data, quantitative data, non-verbal communication |
| GCSE Business Studies | 0.21 | chart, qualitative data, quantitative data |
| A level Psychology | 0.14 | qualitative data, quantitative data |
Which apprenticeships lead here?
Apprenticeship standard — the official list of what an apprentice in one job must know and be able to do; the level says how advanced it is. Level 3 can start straight after GCSEs.
Skills England, contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0
Where are these subjects taken most?
Secondary schools with at least 30 pupils in Year 11, ranked by the share taking Statistics, Geography and Computer Science, weighted by how strongly each subject leads here.
Ranking — shows what pupils study, not how well a school prepares them for the job.
DfE subject entries
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What the job is
Database administrators test, implement and administer computer databases. They use their expertise in database management systems to plan, coordinate and implement security measures to safeguard computer databases. They also use scripts and configuration files to tailor a database to users' needs.
Occupations and their descriptions: ESCO classification of the European Commission, © European Union.
This is a model of overlapping content, not careers advice or entry requirements, which employers and training providers set. Occupations and their descriptions: ESCO classification of the European Commission, © European Union. Apprenticeship standards: Skills England, contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. School subjects and entries: Department for Education. Links between them are made by sch.today. Methodology.