embedded-system-designer/references/skills.md

Competences — embedded system designer

Source: ESCO v1.2.1 occupation-skill relations (http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/10469d70-78a3-4650-9e29-d04de13c62c1).

Essential

• analyse software specifications (skill/competence)
• create flowchart diagram (skill/competence)
• create software design (skill/competence)
• define technical requirements (skill/competence)
• develop creative ideas (skill/competence)
• digital systems (knowledge)
• embedded systems (knowledge)
• engineering control theory (knowledge)
• ICT communications protocols (knowledge)
• interpret electronic design specifications (skill/competence)
• provide ICT consulting advice (skill/competence)
• real-time computing (knowledge)
• signal processing (knowledge)
• system design (knowledge)
• systems development life-cycle (knowledge)
• task algorithmisation (knowledge)
• tools for software configuration management (knowledge)

Optional

• ABAP (knowledge)
• AJAX (knowledge)
• Ansible (knowledge)
• Apache Maven (knowledge)
• APL (knowledge)
• ASP.NET (knowledge)
• Assembly (computer programming) (knowledge)
• battery management systems (knowledge)
• build business relationships (skill/competence)
• C# (knowledge)
• C++ (knowledge)
• COBOL (knowledge)
• CoffeeScript (knowledge)
• collect customer feedback on applications (skill/competence)
• Common Lisp (knowledge)
• computer programming (knowledge)
• engineering processes (knowledge)
• Erlang (knowledge)
• field-programmable gate arrays (knowledge)
• Groovy (knowledge)
• hardware architectures (knowledge)
• hardware components (knowledge)
• Haskell (knowledge)
• ICT network simulation (knowledge)
• ICT security standards (knowledge)
• ICT system integration (knowledge)
• Java (computer programming) (knowledge)
• JavaScript (knowledge)
• Jenkins (tools for software configuration management) (knowledge)
• Lisp (knowledge)
• MATLAB (knowledge)
• Microsoft Visual C++ (knowledge)
• ML (computer programming) (knowledge)
• network management system tools (knowledge)
• Objective-C (knowledge)
• OpenEdge Advanced Business Language (knowledge)
• Pascal (computer programming) (knowledge)
• Perl (knowledge)
• PHP (knowledge)
• Prolog (computer programming) (knowledge)
• Puppet (tools for software configuration management) (knowledge)
• Python (computer programming) (knowledge)
• R (knowledge)
• Ruby (computer programming) (knowledge)
• Salt (tools for software configuration management) (knowledge)
• SAP R3 (knowledge)
• SAS language (knowledge)
• Scala (knowledge)
• Scratch (computer programming) (knowledge)
• Smalltalk (computer programming) (knowledge)
• software components libraries (knowledge)
• SPARK (knowledge)
• STAF (knowledge)
• state estimation (knowledge)
• Swift (computer programming) (knowledge)
• tools for ICT test automation (knowledge)
• TypeScript (knowledge)
• utilise computer-aided software engineering tools (skill/competence)
• VBScript (knowledge)
• verify formal ICT specifications (skill/competence)
• Visual Basic (knowledge)

Market evidence (job-ad analysis, 50 ads, as of 2026-07-11)

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

Hard skills

• embedded software development — 32 %
• firmware development — 20 %