telecommunications-engineer/references/skills.md

Competences — telecommunications engineer

Source: ESCO v1.2.1 occupation-skill relations (http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/02eb0ae6-ecdd-4602-9c8e-60ffe6dbe1e2).

Essential

• adjust ICT system capacity (skill/competence)
• analyse network bandwidth requirements (skill/competence)
• define technical requirements (skill/competence)
• design computer network (skill/competence)
• design process (skill/competence)
• electronics principles (knowledge)
• estimate costs of installing telecommunication devices (skill/competence)
• ICT communications protocols (knowledge)
• ICT network routing (knowledge)
• ICT network security risks (knowledge)
• ICT system user requirements (knowledge)
• implement a virtual private network (skill/competence)
• interact with users to gather requirements (skill/competence)
• log transmitter readings (skill/competence)
• microwave principles (knowledge)
• procurement of ICT network equipment (knowledge)
• provide ICT system training (skill/competence)
• quality assurance methodologies (knowledge)
• signal processing (knowledge)
• support ICT system users (skill/competence)
• systems development life-cycle (knowledge)
• telecom regulations (knowledge)
• telecommunication industry (knowledge)
• use a complex communication system (skill/competence)
• use session border controller (skill/competence)

Optional

• ABAP (knowledge)
• Agile project management (knowledge)
• AJAX (knowledge)
• analyse business requirements (skill/competence)
• APL (knowledge)
• apply technical communication skills (skill/competence)
• ASP.NET (knowledge)
• Assembly (computer programming) (knowledge)
• assess ICT knowledge (skill/competence)
• build business relationships (skill/competence)
• C# (knowledge)
• C++ (knowledge)
• Cisco (knowledge)
• COBOL (knowledge)
• CoffeeScript (knowledge)
• Common Lisp (knowledge)
• computer programming (knowledge)
• create software design (skill/competence)
• Erlang (knowledge)
• forecast future ICT network needs (skill/competence)
• give live presentation (skill/competence)
• Groovy (knowledge)
• Haskell (knowledge)
• ICT networking hardware (knowledge)
• ICT project management methodologies (knowledge)
• implement a firewall (skill/competence)
• implement ICT network diagnostic tools (skill/competence)
• implement ICT security policies (skill/competence)
• install electronic communication equipment (skill/competence)
• install low voltage wiring (skill/competence)
• integrate system components (skill/competence)
• Java (computer programming) (knowledge)
• JavaScript (knowledge)
• lean project management (knowledge)
• Lisp (knowledge)
• MATLAB (knowledge)
• Microsoft Visual C++ (knowledge)
• ML (computer programming) (knowledge)
• network engineering (knowledge)
• Objective-C (knowledge)
• OpenEdge Advanced Business Language (knowledge)
• operate private branch exchange (skill/competence)
• Pascal (computer programming) (knowledge)
• perform ICT troubleshooting (skill/competence)
• perform resource planning (skill/competence)
• Perl (knowledge)
• PHP (knowledge)
• Process-based management (knowledge)
• Prolog (computer programming) (knowledge)
• provide user documentation (skill/competence)
• 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)
• solve location and navigation problems by using GPS tools (skill/competence)
• strategies for handling cases of elder abuse (knowledge)
• Swift (computer programming) (knowledge)
• telecommunication trunking (knowledge)
• TypeScript (knowledge)
• use different communication channels (skill/competence)
• VBScript (knowledge)
• Visual Basic (knowledge)

Market evidence (job-ad analysis, 48 ads, as of 2026-07-20)

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

Hard skills

• telecommunications engineering — 23 %