# Competences — cloud software developer

Source: ESCO v1.2.1 occupation-skill relations (http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/781a6350-e686-45b9-b075-e4c8d5a05ff7).

## Essential

- **automate cloud tasks** (skill/competence)
- **cloud monitoring and reporting** (knowledge)
- **cloud security and compliance** (knowledge)
- **cloud technologies** (knowledge)
- **computer engineering** (knowledge)
- **decentralized application frameworks** (knowledge)
- **define software architecture** (skill/competence)
- **deploy cloud resource** (skill/competence)
- **design cloud architecture** (skill/competence)
- **design cloud networks** (skill/competence)
- **design database in the cloud** (skill/competence)
- **design for organisational complexity** (skill/competence)
- **develop with cloud services** (skill/competence)
- **ICT system programming** (knowledge)
- **implement cloud security and compliance** (skill/competence)
- **integrated development environment software** (knowledge)
- **Java (computer programming)** (knowledge)
- **JavaScript** (knowledge)
- **manage cloud data and storage** (skill/competence)
- **software frameworks** (knowledge)

## Optional

- application usability (knowledge)
- ASP.NET (knowledge)
- Eclipse (integrated development environment software) (knowledge)
- IBM WebSphere (knowledge)
- JavaScript Framework (knowledge)
- monitor system performance (skill/competence)
- service-oriented modelling (knowledge)

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## Market evidence (job-ad analysis, 22 ads, as of 2026-07-10)

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

### Hard skills

- software development — **59 %**
- data processing — **27 %**
- requirements analysis — **23 %**
- system design — **18 %**
- ci/cd pipeline development — **18 %**
- cloud architecture design — **18 %**
- cloud migration — **18 %**

### Methods

- agile development — **23 %**
- ci/cd — **18 %**
- ci/cd pipelines — **18 %**
- infrastructure as code — **18 %**

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