Career path

Software Developers

The skills this job asks for, and the level for each.

Skills for this career path

300 skills listed by ESCO, 149 of them essential. 300 are in our skills list and linked; we measure a match on those. ESCO gives no levels, so we ask for level 3 on an essential skill and 2 on the rest.

Essential · Knowledge (77)

Essential · Skills (72)

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Optional · Knowledge (115)

Occupation: ISCO-08 occupations (International Labour Organization). Skills: This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission (v1.2.1, CC BY 4.0), modified by CareersMatch.

What the “Software Developers” career path asks for

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Skills

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Skills this job asks for

Skills asked for307

Essential152

Occupation codeisco08:2512

SourceISCO-08 (ILO) unit groups with ESCO v1.2.1 skills (European Commission, CC BY 4.0), modified by CareersMatch; built 2026-09-24

Skills for Software Developers
Skill	Type	Necessity	Level
algorithms	skill	essential	3
align software with system architectures	skill	essential	3

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