integration-engineer/references/skills.md

Competences — integration engineer

Source: ESCO v1.2.1 occupation-skill relations (http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/07e60525-1aad-4099-aaf3-2c7014c92212).

Essential

• analyse network bandwidth requirements (skill/competence)
• apply company policies (skill/competence)
• apply ICT system usage policies (skill/competence)
• define integration strategy (skill/competence)
• define technology strategy (skill/competence)
• deploy ICT systems (skill/competence)
• design component interfaces (skill/competence)
• hardware components suppliers (knowledge)
• ICT communications protocols (knowledge)
• ICT project management methodologies (knowledge)
• ICT system user requirements (knowledge)
• integrate system components (skill/competence)
• inter-organisational middleware system (knowledge)
• procurement of ICT network equipment (knowledge)
• software components suppliers (knowledge)
• use scripting programming (skill/competence)

Optional

• ABAP (knowledge)
• adapt to changing situations (skill/competence)
• Agile project management (knowledge)
• AJAX (knowledge)
• Ansible (knowledge)
• Apache Maven (knowledge)
• APL (knowledge)
• ASP.NET (knowledge)
• Assembly (computer programming) (knowledge)
• C# (knowledge)
• C++ (knowledge)
• Cisco (knowledge)
• COBOL (knowledge)
• Common Lisp (knowledge)
• communicate with customers (skill/competence)
• computer programming (knowledge)
• design computer network (skill/competence)
• embedded systems (knowledge)
• engineering processes (knowledge)
• Groovy (knowledge)
• hardware components (knowledge)
• Haskell (knowledge)
• ICT debugging tools (knowledge)
• ICT infrastructure (knowledge)
• ICT network routing (knowledge)
• ICT recovery techniques (knowledge)
• ICT system integration (knowledge)
• ICT system programming (knowledge)
• implement a firewall (skill/competence)
• implement anti-virus software (skill/competence)
• information architecture (knowledge)
• information security strategy (knowledge)
• interfacing techniques (knowledge)
• Java (computer programming) (knowledge)
• JavaScript (knowledge)
• Jenkins (tools for software configuration management) (knowledge)
• lean project management (knowledge)
• Lisp (knowledge)
• MATLAB (knowledge)
• Microsoft Visual C++ (knowledge)
• ML (computer programming) (knowledge)
• model based system engineering (knowledge)
• Objective-C (knowledge)
• OpenEdge Advanced Business Language (knowledge)
• Pascal (computer programming) (knowledge)
• perform project management (skill/competence)
• Perl (knowledge)
• PHP (knowledge)
• Process-based management (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)
• software components libraries (knowledge)
• solution deployment (knowledge)
• STAF (knowledge)
• Swift (computer programming) (knowledge)
• systems development life-cycle (knowledge)
• tools for ICT test automation (knowledge)
• tools for software configuration management (knowledge)
• use an application-specific interface (skill/competence)
• use back-up and recovery tools (skill/competence)
• utilise computer-aided software engineering tools (skill/competence)
• Vagrant (knowledge)
• Visual Basic (knowledge)

Market evidence (job-ad analysis, 42 ads, as of 2026-07-14)

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

Hard skills

• system integration — 31 %
• systems integration — 29 %
• troubleshooting — 24 %

Methods

• Agile development — 24 %