# Competences — chief technology officer

Source: ESCO v1.2.1 occupation-skill relations (http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/7b1b5da8-573a-49bb-a38e-68725a949f4f).

## Essential

- **administer ICT system** (skill/competence)
- **analyse ICT system** (skill/competence)
- **attack vectors** (knowledge)
- **carry out strategic research** (skill/competence)
- **coordinate technological activities** (skill/competence)
- **decision support systems** (knowledge)
- **define technology strategy** (skill/competence)
- **ensure adherence to organisational ICT standards** (skill/competence)
- **establish an ICT customer support process** (skill/competence)
- **ICT project management** (knowledge)
- **ICT project management methodologies** (knowledge)
- **implement corporate governance** (skill/competence)
- **implement ICT coding conventions** (skill/competence)
- **industrial research and development** (knowledge)
- **lead technology development of an organisation** (skill/competence)
- **maintain plan for continuity of operations** (skill/competence)
- **manage budgets** (skill/competence)
- **monitor ICT research** (skill/competence)
- **monitor technology trends** (skill/competence)
- **optimise choice of ICT solution** (skill/competence)
- **review development process of an organisation** (skill/competence)
- **utilise decision support system** (skill/competence)

## Optional

- ABAP (knowledge)
- Agile project management (knowledge)
- AJAX (knowledge)
- APL (knowledge)
- ASP.NET (knowledge)
- Assembly (computer programming) (knowledge)
- build business relationships (skill/competence)
- business intelligence (knowledge)
- business strategy concepts (knowledge)
- C# (knowledge)
- C++ (knowledge)
- COBOL (knowledge)
- CoffeeScript (knowledge)
- Common Lisp (knowledge)
- computer programming (knowledge)
- digital systems (knowledge)
- ensure information privacy (skill/competence)
- Erlang (knowledge)
- Groovy (knowledge)
- hardware components (knowledge)
- hardware components suppliers (knowledge)
- Haskell (knowledge)
- ICT communications protocols (knowledge)
- ICT infrastructure (knowledge)
- ICT quality policy (knowledge)
- identify processes for re-engineering (skill/competence)
- information structure (knowledge)
- internet governance (knowledge)
- Java (computer programming) (knowledge)
- JavaScript (knowledge)
- lean project management (knowledge)
- Lisp (knowledge)
- maintain relationship with customers (skill/competence)
- MATLAB (knowledge)
- Microsoft Visual C++ (knowledge)
- ML (computer programming) (knowledge)
- Objective-C (knowledge)
- OpenEdge Advanced Business Language (knowledge)
- oversee development of software (skill/competence)
- Pascal (computer programming) (knowledge)
- perform business analysis (skill/competence)
- Perl (knowledge)
- PHP (knowledge)
- Process-based management (knowledge)
- Prolog (computer programming) (knowledge)
- Python (computer programming) (knowledge)
- R (knowledge)
- Ruby (computer programming) (knowledge)
- SAP R3 (knowledge)
- SAS language (knowledge)
- Scala (knowledge)
- scientific research methodology (knowledge)
- Scratch (computer programming) (knowledge)
- Smalltalk (computer programming) (knowledge)
- software components libraries (knowledge)
- software components suppliers (knowledge)
- Swift (computer programming) (knowledge)
- TypeScript (knowledge)
- use e-services (skill/competence)
- VBScript (knowledge)
- Visual Basic (knowledge)

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## Market evidence (job-ad analysis, 53 ads, as of 2026-07-10)

Share of analyzed job ads mentioning the item (threshold ≥ 20 %). Source: JSearch/Adzuna APIs.

### Hard skills

- cybersecurity — **23 %**
- technical leadership — **23 %**
- technology strategy — **23 %**

### Responsibilities

- team leadership — **21 %**

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