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Competences — landscape designer

Source: ESCO v1.2.1 occupation-skill relations (http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/a424aa0f-b3f1-41fb-901f-85e05fed83ed).

Essential

  • advise supervisors (skill/competence)
  • create landscape designs (skill/competence)
  • design principles (knowledge)
  • develop architectural plans (skill/competence)
  • ecology (knowledge)
  • environmental design (knowledge)
  • inspect project regulations (skill/competence)
  • landscape analysis (knowledge)
  • landscape architectural instruments (knowledge)
  • landscape architecture (knowledge)
  • make drawings (skill/competence)
  • manage landscape design projects (skill/competence)
  • perform pest control (skill/competence)
  • perform studies and field investigation (skill/competence)
  • perform weed control operations (skill/competence)
  • pest control in plants (knowledge)
  • plant disease control (knowledge)
  • review construction plans authorisations (skill/competence)
  • surveying methods (knowledge)
  • topography (knowledge)

Optional

  • agronomy (knowledge)
  • botany (knowledge)
  • building codes (knowledge)
  • characteristics of plants (knowledge)
  • conduct public presentations (skill/competence)
  • create solutions to problems (skill/competence)
  • forest ecology (knowledge)
  • green building practices (knowledge)
  • green building standards (knowledge)
  • green logistics (knowledge)
  • horticultural design (knowledge)
  • horticulture principles (knowledge)
  • keep task records (skill/competence)
  • landscaping materials (knowledge)
  • lead hard landscape projects (skill/competence)
  • make decisions regarding landscaping (skill/competence)
  • manage rainwater (skill/competence)
  • plant species (knowledge)
  • principles of landscape construction (knowledge)
  • rainwater management (knowledge)
  • work independently in landscaping (skill/competence)

Market evidence (job-ad analysis, 27 ads, as of 2026-07-14)

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

Hard skills

  • landscape design — 78 %
  • construction documentation — 22 %
  • site analysis — 22 %
  • planting design — 19 %

Responsibilities

  • design development — 33 %
  • client communication — 22 %