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Tools & technology — printed circuit board designer

Source: O*NET 30.3, occupation 17-3013.00 (Mechanical Drafters) — manual nearest-occupation mapping via ISCO group 3118; the official ESCO crosswalk has no entry for this ESCO occupation.

Software Category Hot technology
Adobe After Effects Graphics or photo imaging software yes
Autodesk AutoCAD Computer aided design CAD software yes
Autodesk AutoCAD Civil 3D Computer aided design CAD software yes
Autodesk Revit Computer aided design CAD software yes
Bentley MicroStation Computer aided design CAD software yes
Dassault Systemes SolidWorks Computer aided design CAD software yes
ESRI ArcGIS software Geographic information system yes
Extensible markup language XML Enterprise application integration software yes
Microsoft Access Data base user interface and query software yes
Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet software yes
Microsoft Office software Office suite software yes
Microsoft Outlook Electronic mail software yes
Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation software yes
Microsoft Project Project management software yes
Microsoft Word Word processing software yes
SAP software Enterprise resource planning ERP software yes
Trimble SketchUp Pro Graphics or photo imaging software yes
1CadCam Unigraphics Computer aided manufacturing CAM software
Adobe LiveMotion Graphics or photo imaging software
Autodesk Inventor Computer aided design CAD software
Autodesk Mechanical Computer aided design CAD software
Autodesk Navisworks Computer aided design CAD software
Bentley Navigator Computer aided design CAD software
Bill of materials software Materials requirements planning logistics and supply chain software
Computer aided design and drafting CADD software Computer aided design CAD software
Computer aided design and drafting software CADD Computer aided design CAD software
Dassault Systemes CATIA Computer aided design CAD software
Document management system software Document management software
ERP software Enterprise resource planning ERP software
Graphic presentation software Graphics or photo imaging software
McNeel Rhinoceros 3D Graphics or photo imaging software
Motion graphics software Graphics or photo imaging software
NavisWorks Jetstream Computer aided design CAD software
Non uniform rational b-splines NURBS software Graphics or photo imaging software
Piping and instrumentation design PID software Computer aided design CAD software
PTC Creo Parametric Computer aided design CAD software
PTC Pro/Cable Computer aided design CAD software
Rapid prototyping software Computer aided manufacturing CAM software
Reverse engineering software Computer aided design CAD software
Scanning software Optical character reader OCR or scanning software
Siemens Solid Edge Computer aided design CAD software
SofTech CADRA Computer aided design CAD software
Three-dimensional scanning software Optical character reader OCR or scanning software

Market evidence (job-ad analysis, 16 ads, as of 2026-07-18)

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

Tools

  • altium designer — 50 %
  • siemens xpedition — 31 %
  • Cadence Allegro — 25 %
  • cadence orcad pcb designer — 19 %
  • microsoft excel — 19 %