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Competences — knowledge engineer

Source: ESCO v1.2.1 occupation-skill relations (http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/812c217d-32b7-4f6a-9faf-993d3577ac7f).

Essential

  • analyse business requirements (skill/competence)
  • apply ICT systems theory (skill/competence)
  • assess ICT knowledge (skill/competence)
  • business intelligence (knowledge)
  • business process modelling (knowledge)
  • create semantic trees (skill/competence)
  • data engineering (knowledge)
  • data science (knowledge)
  • database development tools (knowledge)
  • define technical requirements (skill/competence)
  • information extraction (knowledge)
  • information structure (knowledge)
  • manage business knowledge (skill/competence)
  • manage database (skill/competence)
  • manage ICT semantic integration (skill/competence)
  • natural language processing (knowledge)
  • principles of artificial intelligence (knowledge)
  • resource description framework query language (knowledge)
  • systems development life-cycle (knowledge)
  • systems theory (knowledge)
  • task algorithmisation (knowledge)
  • use an application-specific interface (skill/competence)
  • use databases (skill/competence)
  • use markup languages (skill/competence)
  • web programming (knowledge)

Optional

  • ABAP (knowledge)
  • AJAX (knowledge)
  • APL (knowledge)
  • ASP.NET (knowledge)
  • Assembly (computer programming) (knowledge)
  • build business relationships (skill/competence)
  • C# (knowledge)
  • C++ (knowledge)
  • cloud technologies (knowledge)
  • COBOL (knowledge)
  • CoffeeScript (knowledge)
  • cognitive psychology (knowledge)
  • Common Lisp (knowledge)
  • computer programming (knowledge)
  • create database diagrams (skill/competence)
  • data mining (knowledge)
  • decision support systems (knowledge)
  • define database physical structure (skill/competence)
  • design application interfaces (skill/competence)
  • design database scheme (skill/competence)
  • Erlang (knowledge)
  • Groovy (knowledge)
  • Haskell (knowledge)
  • ICT project management (knowledge)
  • ICT security legislation (knowledge)
  • implement a virtual private network (skill/competence)
  • information architecture (knowledge)
  • information categorisation (knowledge)
  • Java (computer programming) (knowledge)
  • JavaScript (knowledge)
  • LINQ (knowledge)
  • Lisp (knowledge)
  • manage cloud data and storage (skill/competence)
  • manage digital documents (skill/competence)
  • MATLAB (knowledge)
  • Microsoft Visual C++ (knowledge)
  • ML (computer programming) (knowledge)
  • N1QL (knowledge)
  • Objective-C (knowledge)
  • OpenEdge Advanced Business Language (knowledge)
  • Pascal (computer programming) (knowledge)
  • Perl (knowledge)
  • PHP (knowledge)
  • Prolog (computer programming) (knowledge)
  • Python (computer programming) (knowledge)
  • R (knowledge)
  • Ruby (computer programming) (knowledge)
  • SAP R3 (knowledge)
  • SAS language (knowledge)
  • Scala (knowledge)
  • Scratch (computer programming) (knowledge)
  • Smalltalk (computer programming) (knowledge)
  • SPARQL (knowledge)
  • store digital data and systems (skill/competence)
  • Swift (computer programming) (knowledge)
  • TypeScript (knowledge)
  • unstructured data (knowledge)
  • use back-up and recovery tools (skill/competence)
  • use query languages (skill/competence)
  • use spreadsheets software (skill/competence)
  • utilise decision support system (skill/competence)
  • VBScript (knowledge)
  • Visual Basic (knowledge)
  • visual presentation techniques (knowledge)

Market evidence (job-ad analysis, 32 ads, as of 2026-07-14)

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

Hard skills

  • metadata management — 50 %
  • taxonomy development — 47 %
  • taxonomy design — 31 %
  • content classification — 19 %
  • data governance — 19 %
  • data labeling — 19 %

Responsibilities

  • taxonomy maintenance — 38 %