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