Database and network professionals not elsewhere classified: how to get into this work
Also called: Data miner, Digital forensic specialist, Security specialist (ICT)
This unit group includes database and network professionals not classified elsewhere in Minor Group 252: Database and Network Professionals. For instance, the group includes information and communications technology security specialists.
Main tasks
- Developing plans to safeguard computer files against accidental or unauthorized modification, destruction or disclosure and to meet emergency data processing needs
- Training users and promoting security awareness to ensure system security and to improve server and network efficiency
- Conferring with users to discuss issues such as computer data access needs, security violations and programming changes
- Monitoring current reports of computer viruses to determine when to update virus protection systems
- Modifying computer security files to incorporate new software, correct errors or change individual access status
- Monitoring use of data files and regulate access to safeguard information in computer files
- Performing risk assessments and executing tests of data processing system to ensure functioning of data processing activities and security measures
- Encrypting data transmissions and erecting firewalls to conceal confidential information as it is being transmitted and to keep out tainted digital transfers
Ways in
- University: Computing & IT degrees, Offered by 24 universities in Hong Kong
Pay · Outlook · AI and this job
- Median pay: HK$48,000 a month
- About 1,542,900 people in 2025, and about 1,639,100 projected by 2028. (+6.2%)
- Generative AI could change some tasks in this job, by the ILO's global estimate.
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Questions people ask
Database and network professionals not elsewhere classified: how do I get into this work?
Ways in include: Computing & IT degrees.
Database and network professionals not elsewhere classified: do you need a degree for this work?
Usually. 91% of people in this job hold a bachelor's degree or higher.
Database and network professionals not elsewhere classified: will AI change this work?
Generative AI could change some tasks in this job, by the ILO's global estimate.
Sources
- Census and Statistics Department (2021 Population Census): 2021 Population Census, Interactive Data Dissemination Service: working population by occupation (38 groups) and sex, age, education, income; median income and field of education (9 groups) (2021 Population Census), retrieved 4 October 2026
- Census and Statistics Department (General Household Survey): Median monthly employment earnings by occupation (9 groups), excluding foreign domestic helpers (Table 210-06317A); employed persons by occupation, age and sex (210-06307A) and by industry (210-06308A) (2025 annual (series to 2026-07)), retrieved 4 October 2026
- Labour and Welfare Bureau; tables published by C&SD: Mid-term Update of Manpower Projection to 2028: supplementary statistical tables (5 occupation groups, 17 selected industries) (2025 to 2028 (published 2026-09)), retrieved 4 October 2026
- International Labour Organization, Generative AI and Jobs: A Refined Global Index of Occupational Exposure (ILO Working Paper 140, Gmyrek et al.) (ILO Working Paper 140, May 2025, Annex Table A1), CC BY 4.0, retrieved 4 October 2026
Updated 4 October 2026