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
digital games designer
ESCO occupation · 17 essential, 69 optional skills. Click a skill to find jobs that mention it.
Essential skills
design graphics
analyse business requirements
compose digital game story
design process
digital game genres
specify digital game scenes
use markup languages
define technical requirements
manage online content
web programming
digital game creation systems
create digital game characters
systems development life-cycle
task algorithmisation
create software design
create concept of digital game
formulate game rules
Optional & specialised skills
COBOL
CoffeeScript
create 3D characters
3D lighting
Java (computer programming)
Python (computer programming)
DevOps
Incremental development
Prototyping development
Common Lisp
ICT security legislation
Swift (computer programming)
ABAP
principles of animation
Lisp
SAP R3
Scratch (computer programming)
R
Visual Studio .NET
Microsoft Visual C++
hardware platforms
VBScript
C++
Perl
animate 3D organic forms
Prolog (computer programming)
Objective-C
operate 3D computer graphics software
Unity (digital game creation systems)
Ruby (computer programming)
manage localisation
MATLAB
OpenEdge Advanced Business Language
Source (digital game creation systems)
Spiral development
CryEngine
AJAX
estimate duration of work
perform resource planning
SAS language
3D texturing
ML (computer programming)
TypeScript
apply 3D imaging techniques
Groovy
JavaScript
software design methodologies
Erlang
ICT performance analysis methods
APL
computer programming
C#
Haskell
id Tech
software interaction design
PHP
Waterfall development
Rapid application development
Scala
Agile development
Pascal (computer programming)
Assembly (computer programming)
Unreal Engine
Frostbite (digital game creation systems)
application usability
ASP.NET
Iterative development
create 3D environments
Smalltalk (computer programming)
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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.