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