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
software tester
ESCO occupation · 10 essential, 68 optional skills. Click a skill to find jobs that mention it.
Essential skills
software architecture models
perform software unit testing
replicate customer software issues
software anomalies
software metrics
levels of software testing
execute software tests
report test findings
provide software testing documentation
address problems critically
Optional & specialised skills
execute integration testing
ABAP
resource description framework query language
Java (computer programming)
plan software testing
software components libraries
R
Pascal (computer programming)
Scratch (computer programming)
ASP.NET
application usability
CoffeeScript
PHP
Haskell
TypeScript
Common Lisp
unstructured data
hardware components
computer programming
Prolog (computer programming)
JavaScript
COBOL
Objective-C
Visual Studio .NET
Ruby (computer programming)
Agile project management
ICT debugging tools
Perl
debug software
XQuery
LDAP
ICT project management methodologies
C++
MDX
perform software recovery testing
develop ICT test suite
LINQ
Python (computer programming)
MATLAB
N1QL
Erlang
VBScript
Swift (computer programming)
SPARQL
use scripting programming
Lisp
Microsoft Visual C++
audit techniques
SAP R3
Lean project management
tools for ICT test automation
C#
Assembly (computer programming)
SAS language
conduct ICT code review
measure software usability
OpenEdge Advanced Business Language
APL
ML (computer programming)
Groovy
Process-based management
ICT performance analysis methods
AJAX
Scala
query languages
manage schedule of tasks
Smalltalk (computer programming)
develop automated software tests
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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.