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