Database and network professionals not elsewhere classified
A substantial share of tasks can be sped up or taken over by AI. The content of the job will noticeably change — learning is cheapest now.
Exposure is not job loss: it shows how much of the work generative AI could do today. Whether that turns into transformation, productivity gains or cuts depends on employers, regulation — and on you.
0 = today’s generative AI cannot perform any of the job’s tasks, 100 = it could do all of them fully. The pale band is the spread across tasks.
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Exposure score 49/100: AI will reshape monitoring and security administration, not eliminate the role. Demand remains strong, with 28.9% EU group growth forecast through 2035.
What changes
- Prioritizing virus reports and recommending protection updates
- Drafting file-safeguarding and emergency data-processing plans
- Preparing access-control changes and troubleshooting security files
What stays human
- Judging security risks within operational and regulatory context
- Resolving sensitive access needs and security violations with users
- Taking accountability for tests, controls and incident decisions
What to learn
- Learn AI-assisted threat intelligence triage and validation
- Build expertise in identity, access and privilege management
- Practice security risk assessment, recovery testing and stakeholder communication
Task by task
The ILO scored every task of the occupation separately, as the average of two AI models (GPT-4o and Gemini). The pale band is the range between the two models' scores, the dot the ILO's final score (for a few tasks expert review placed it outside the band).
- Monitoring current reports of computer viruses to determine when to update virus protection systems60
- Developing plans to safeguard computer files against accidental or unauthorized modification, destruction or disclosure and to meet emergency data processing needs53
- Conferring with users to discuss issues such as computer data access needs, security violations, and programming changes49
- Modifying computer security files to incorporate new software, correct errors or change individual access status49
- Performing risk assessments and executing tests of data processing system to ensure functioning of data processing activities and security measures47
- Training users and promoting security awareness to ensure system security and to improve server and network efficiency47
- Monitoring use of data files and regulate access to safeguard information in computer files44
- Encrypting data transmissions and erecting firewalls to conceal confidential information as it is being transmitted and to keep out tainted digital transfers.42
How much does it affect you?
Every job is different: mark which of these tasks you do and how much, and we'll compute your own, time-weighted score.
For each task: I don't do it · sometimes · most of my job.
- Monitoring current reports of computer viruses to determine when to update virus protection systems(60)
- Developing plans to safeguard computer files against accidental or unauthorized modification, destruction or disclosure and to meet emergency data processing needs(53)
- Conferring with users to discuss issues such as computer data access needs, security violations, and programming changes(49)
- Modifying computer security files to incorporate new software, correct errors or change individual access status(49)
- Performing risk assessments and executing tests of data processing system to ensure functioning of data processing activities and security measures(47)
- Training users and promoting security awareness to ensure system security and to improve server and network efficiency(47)
- Monitoring use of data files and regulate access to safeguard information in computer files(44)
- Encrypting data transmissions and erecting firewalls to conceal confidential information as it is being transmitted and to keep out tainted digital transfers.(42)
You are exactly at the occupation average. (The occupation's score: 49.)
About 25% of your working time goes to highly exposed tasks (score ≥ 50).
- • Monitoring current reports of computer viruses to determine when to update virus protection systems
- • Developing plans to safeguard computer files against accidental or unauthorized modification, destruction or disclosure and to meet emergency data processing needs
- • Encrypting data transmissions and erecting firewalls to conceal confidential information as it is being transmitted and to keep out tainted digital transfers.
- • Monitoring use of data files and regulate access to safeguard information in computer files
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How many people work in this occupational group?
Share of the Information and communications technology professionals group in total employment, by country (Eurostat, ISCO 2-digit — 4-digit breakdowns are not public by country).
Table view
| Country | Information and communications technology professionals |
|---|---|
| Luxembourg | 5.7% · 19 thousand · 2025 |
| Sweden | 5.6% · 297 thousand · 2025 |
| Netherlands | 4.9% · 485 thousand · 2025 |
| Finland | 4.3% · 112 thousand · 2025 |
| Lithuania | 4.1% · 60 thousand · 2025 |
| Switzerland | 4.1% · 196 thousand · 2025 |
| Ireland | 4.0% · 111 thousand · 2025 |
| Estonia | 3.9% · 27 thousand · 2025 |
| Belgium | 3.6% · 186 thousand · 2025 |
| United Kingdom | 3.5% · 1,206 thousand · 2025 |
| Denmark | 3.3% · 103 thousand · 2025 |
| Norway | 3.2% · 94 thousand · 2025 |
| Portugal | 3.2% · 167 thousand · 2025 |
| Austria | 3.1% · 138 thousand · 2025 |
| France | 3.0% · 893 thousand · 2025 |
| Poland | 3.0% · 520 thousand · 2025 |
| Cyprus | 2.9% · 15 thousand · 2025 |
| Iceland | 2.9% · 7 thousand · 2025 |
| Hungary | 2.9% · 134 thousand · 2025 |
| Latvia | 2.9% · 25 thousand · 2025 |
| Czechia | 2.8% · 147 thousand · 2025 |
| Germany | 2.7% · 1,149 thousand · 2025 |
| Bulgaria | 2.7% · 79 thousand · 2025 |
| Malta | 2.7% · 9 thousand · 2025 |
| Slovenia | 2.5% · 25 thousand · 2025 |
| Slovakia | 2.4% · 64 thousand · 2025 |
| Croatia | 2.2% · 38 thousand · 2025 |
| Romania | 1.5% · 116 thousand · 2025 |
| Spain | 1.4% · 317 thousand · 2025 |
| Greece | 1.4% · 60 thousand · 2025 |
| Italy | 0.8% · 191 thousand · 2025 |
What do they earn?
Mean gross monthly earnings in the major occupational group (Professionals). Eurostat's earnings survey only publishes pay by occupation at 1 digit, so this is the job's broader group. Enterprises with 10+ employees, 2022.
By country, at purchasing power parity (PPS/month), so countries with different price levels can be compared.
- Switzerland6,389
- Luxembourg5,274
- Ireland4,873
- Germany4,807
- Belgium4,799
- Denmark4,446
- Norway4,237
- Austria4,099
- Netherlands4,031
- Iceland3,875
- EU273,850
- France3,791
- Finland3,769
- Romania3,559
- Sweden3,416
- Spain3,413
- Slovenia3,326
- Italy3,305
- Cyprus3,271
- Lithuania3,221
- Croatia2,890
- Czechia2,871
- Malta2,825
- Poland2,783
- Hungary2,777
- Portugal2,755
- Latvia2,671
- Estonia2,599
- Bulgaria2,359
- Slovakia2,345
- Greece2,321
Source: Eurostat Structure of Earnings Survey (earn_ses22_21), every four years. The United Kingdom is not covered by the survey.
Outlook to 2035
Employment in the Information and communications technology professionals group according to Cedefop's 2026 forecast.
thousand · Cedefop Skills Forecast 2026 · 2026–2035: projection
Replacement demand is the jobs left by people retiring or changing careers — even a shrinking occupation can have many openings.
According to the WEF
Security Management Specialists — among the FASTEST-GROWING jobs (rank 5)
Future 2035 →Related occupations
Sources: ILO WP140 (2025) · Eurostat lfsa_egai2d · Cedefop Skills Forecast 2026 · WEF Future of Jobs 2025 · ESCO. The exposure score measures how much of an occupation's tasks generative AI could perform — not whether the job disappears. For information only, not career advice. How do we calculate this?