software developer

Software developers implement or program all kinds of software systems based on specifications and designs by using programming languages, tools, and platforms.

Scope note

Includes people performing software design.

Alternative Labels

application developer

application programmer

solutions developer

programmer

software specialist

application software developer

software developers

software engineer

applications engineer

software developer

soft developer

developer of software

Regulatory Aspect

To see if and how this occupation is regulated in EU Member States, EEA countries or Switzerland please consult the Regulated Professions Database of the Commission. Regulated Professions Database:

http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/services/free-movement-professionals/qualifications-recognition_en

Narrower occupations

- blockchain developer

Skills & Competences

Essential Skills and Competences

provide technical documentation identify customer requirements debug software develop automated migration methods use software libraries use technical drawing software create flowchart diagram define technical requirements use software design patterns interpret technical requirements manage engineering project utilise computer-aided software engineering tools perform scientific research analyse software specifications use an application-specific interface develop software prototype

Essential Knowledge

engineering principles integrated development environment software project management computer programming technical drawings tools for software configuration management engineering processes ICT debugging tools

Optional Skills and Competences

adapt to changes in technological development plans collect customer feedback on applications integrate system components design user interface migrate existing data use functional programming develop creative ideas use automatic programming utilise machine learning use query languages use object-oriented programming do cloud refactoring use logic programming use concurrent programming

Optional Knowledge

Eclipse (integrated development environment software) software frameworks Smalltalk (computer programming) SAS language Jenkins (tools for software configuration management) Objective-C ABAP Scratch (computer programming) IBM WebSphere Ansible WordPress VBScript Oracle Application Development Framework C++ Python (computer programming) KDevelop Haskell JavaScript Framework AJAX Erlang ML (computer programming) blockchain openness SQL Ajax Framework cyber attack counter-measures Visual Studio .NET STAF smart contract Groovy PHP R defence standard procedures ASP.NET Xcode Assembly (computer programming) World Wide Web Consortium standards ICT security legislation Internet of Things Drupal COBOL Apache Maven SAP R3 Scala MATLAB Ruby (computer programming) Salt (tools for software configuration management) software anomalies OpenEdge Advanced Business Language Swift (computer programming) Lisp blockchain platforms Perl C# JavaScript CoffeeScript Microsoft Visual C++ Apache Tomcat Pascal (computer programming) object-oriented modelling Common Lisp NoSQL APL Java (computer programming) TypeScript Prolog (computer programming) Puppet (tools for software configuration management)

Concept URI

Concept Uri

http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/f2b15a0e-e65a-438a-affb-29b9d50b77d1

Status

released

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