Skills by Occupation
The skills each role needs — from the EU's official ESCO classification.
Software developer
Data analyst
Web developer
Network engineer
Database administrator
Accountant
Registered nurse
Electrician
Civil engineer
Graphic designer
ICT intelligent systems designer
ESCO occupation · 22 essential, 57 optional skills. Click a skill to find jobs that mention it.
Essential skills
systems development life-cycle
task algorithmisation
database development tools
develop creative ideas
analyse business requirements
principles of artificial intelligence
apply ICT systems theory
use markup languages
ICT security legislation
resource description framework query language
business process modelling
manage ICT semantic integration
assess ICT knowledge
systems theory
information structure
design application interfaces
manage database
web programming
design database scheme
define technical requirements
natural language processing
design process
Optional & specialised skills
Visual Studio .NET
visual presentation techniques
Pascal (computer programming)
computer programming
Assembly (computer programming)
business intelligence
ASP.NET
Groovy
Scratch (computer programming)
LINQ
SAS language
PHP
Scala
C++
VBScript
Prolog (computer programming)
SAP R3
information categorisation
OpenEdge Advanced Business Language
data mining
Process-based management
information architecture
ML (computer programming)
CoffeeScript
deliver visual presentation of data
Agile project management
APL
Objective-C
Lean project management
MATLAB
JavaScript
SPARQL
COBOL
ICT project management methodologies
Perl
TypeScript
N1QL
Microsoft Visual C++
Ruby (computer programming)
Haskell
R
unstructured data
AJAX
Python (computer programming)
Common Lisp
information extraction
C#
Java (computer programming)
Erlang
Lisp
manage business knowledge
data models
build business relationships
Smalltalk (computer programming)
ABAP
Swift (computer programming)
manage ICT data classification
Other matches: mechatronics engineer · ICT system tester · ICT system architect · user interface designer · embedded system designer
Coming next: live skill demand and trends — how often each skill
actually appears in job ads — arrive with the EURES / Cedefop integration. The skills above
are the canonical requirements for the role from the EU ESCO taxonomy.