4.6 KiB
4.6 KiB
Competences — ICT network administrator
Source: ESCO v1.2.1 occupation-skill relations (http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/81480b40-a318-47f3-9b2c-56b69ed67d95).
Essential
- adjust ICT system capacity (skill/competence)
- analyse network bandwidth requirements (skill/competence)
- apply ICT system usage policies (skill/competence)
- cloud technologies (knowledge)
- computer programming (knowledge)
- cyber attack counter-measures (knowledge)
- define firewall rules (skill/competence)
- design computer network (skill/competence)
- digital systems (knowledge)
- forecast future ICT network needs (skill/competence)
- ICT network routing (knowledge)
- ICT network security risks (knowledge)
- ICT performance analysis methods (knowledge)
- ICT security legislation (knowledge)
- ICT system programming (knowledge)
- implement a firewall (skill/competence)
- implement a virtual private network (skill/competence)
- implement anti-virus software (skill/competence)
- implement ICT network diagnostic tools (skill/competence)
- implement ICT security policies (skill/competence)
- install electronic communication equipment (skill/competence)
- integrate system components (skill/competence)
- internet governance (knowledge)
- interpret technical texts (skill/competence)
- maintain internet protocol configuration (skill/competence)
- manage email hosting service (skill/competence)
- manage ICT virtualisation environments (skill/competence)
- network management system tools (knowledge)
- network standards (knowledge)
- perform backups (skill/competence)
- procurement of ICT network equipment (knowledge)
- quality assurance methodologies (knowledge)
- solution deployment (knowledge)
- use back-up and recovery tools (skill/competence)
Optional
- ABAP (knowledge)
- acquire system component (skill/competence)
- AJAX (knowledge)
- Android (mobile operating systems) (knowledge)
- Apache Tomcat (knowledge)
- APL (knowledge)
- apply system organisational policies (skill/competence)
- ASP.NET (knowledge)
- Assembly (computer programming) (knowledge)
- automate cloud tasks (skill/competence)
- BlackBerry (knowledge)
- C# (knowledge)
- C++ (knowledge)
- Cisco (knowledge)
- COBOL (knowledge)
- CoffeeScript (knowledge)
- Common Lisp (knowledge)
- Erlang (knowledge)
- execute ICT audits (skill/competence)
- Groovy (knowledge)
- Haskell (knowledge)
- ICT system user requirements (knowledge)
- implement spam protection (skill/competence)
- install signal repeaters (skill/competence)
- iOS (knowledge)
- Java (computer programming) (knowledge)
- JavaScript (knowledge)
- Lisp (knowledge)
- maintain ICT server (skill/competence)
- MATLAB (knowledge)
- Microsoft Visual C++ (knowledge)
- ML (computer programming) (knowledge)
- mobile operating systems (knowledge)
- network engineering (knowledge)
- Objective-C (knowledge)
- OpenEdge Advanced Business Language (knowledge)
- operating systems (knowledge)
- optimise choice of ICT solution (skill/competence)
- organisational policies (knowledge)
- Pascal (computer programming) (knowledge)
- Perl (knowledge)
- PHP (knowledge)
- prepare licence agreements (skill/competence)
- Prolog (computer programming) (knowledge)
- protect personal data and privacy (skill/competence)
- provide ICT system training (skill/competence)
- provide technical training (skill/competence)
- proxy servers (knowledge)
- Python (computer programming) (knowledge)
- R (knowledge)
- remove computer virus or malware from a computer (skill/competence)
- Ruby (computer programming) (knowledge)
- SAP R3 (knowledge)
- SAS language (knowledge)
- Scala (knowledge)
- Scratch (computer programming) (knowledge)
- security engineering (knowledge)
- Smalltalk (computer programming) (knowledge)
- Swift (computer programming) (knowledge)
- TypeScript (knowledge)
- use ICT hardware (skill/competence)
- utilise computer-aided software engineering tools (skill/competence)
- VBScript (knowledge)
- Visual Basic (knowledge)
Market evidence (job-ad analysis, 18 ads, as of 2026-07-12)
Share of analyzed job ads mentioning the item (threshold ≥ 20 %). Source: JSearch/Adzuna APIs.
Hard skills
- network administration — 44 %
- troubleshooting — 39 %
- network design — 22 %
- network installation — 17 %
- network maintenance — 17 %
- network troubleshooting — 17 %
- system administration — 17 %
Responsibilities
- system monitoring — 17 %
- network maintenance — 17 %