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