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
knowledge engineer
ESCO occupation · 21 essential, 57 optional skills. Click a skill to find jobs that mention it.
Essential skills
manage ICT semantic integration
business process modelling
task algorithmisation
resource description framework query language
analyse business requirements
web programming
manage business knowledge
define technical requirements
information structure
manage database
business intelligence
principles of artificial intelligence
systems theory
apply ICT systems theory
use markup languages
natural language processing
create semantic trees
systems development life-cycle
information extraction
assess ICT knowledge
database development tools
Optional & specialised skills
Scala
ASP.NET
ICT project management
OpenEdge Advanced Business Language
Perl
cloud technologies
create database diagrams
Java (computer programming)
Python (computer programming)
Visual Studio .NET
Groovy
Assembly (computer programming)
visual presentation techniques
build business relationships
unstructured data
Erlang
Common Lisp
JavaScript
ABAP
C++
Prolog (computer programming)
design application interfaces
Objective-C
decision support systems
cognitive psychology
PHP
Ruby (computer programming)
MATLAB
SPARQL
Haskell
ICT security legislation
Smalltalk (computer programming)
Lisp
ML (computer programming)
VBScript
design database scheme
Pascal (computer programming)
LINQ
information architecture
Scratch (computer programming)
TypeScript
N1QL
define database physical structure
COBOL
C#
information categorisation
CoffeeScript
Swift (computer programming)
utilise decision support system
R
Microsoft Visual C++
computer programming
SAS language
AJAX
SAP R3
APL
data mining
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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.