4.6 KiB
4.6 KiB
Competences — ICT security technician
Source: ESCO v1.2.1 occupation-skill relations (http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/a44a1dc5-be08-4840-8bd5-770c4ac1ca6d).
Essential
- address problems critically (skill/competence)
- analyse ICT system (skill/competence)
- attack vectors (knowledge)
- audit techniques (knowledge)
- communicate with stakeholders (skill/competence)
- cyber attack counter-measures (knowledge)
- cyber security (knowledge)
- engage with stakeholders (skill/competence)
- ensure proper document management (skill/competence)
- establish an ICT security prevention plan (skill/competence)
- estimate duration of work (skill/competence)
- execute software tests (skill/competence)
- ICT networking hardware (knowledge)
- ICT security standards (knowledge)
- ICT system programming (knowledge)
- identify ICT security risks (skill/competence)
- identify ICT system weaknesses (skill/competence)
- implement ICT risk management (skill/competence)
- integrate system components (skill/competence)
- levels of software testing (knowledge)
- manage alarm system (skill/competence)
- manage closed-circuit television system (skill/competence)
- manage system security (skill/competence)
- operating systems (knowledge)
- penetration testing tool (knowledge)
- procurement of ICT network equipment (knowledge)
- protect ICT devices (skill/competence)
- security engineering (knowledge)
- set up cybersecurity training programmes (skill/competence)
- solve ICT system problems (skill/competence)
- systems development life-cycle (knowledge)
- tools for ICT test automation (knowledge)
- use access control software (skill/competence)
- web application security threats (knowledge)
Optional
- ABAP (knowledge)
- AJAX (knowledge)
- APL (knowledge)
- ASP.NET (knowledge)
- Assembly (computer programming) (knowledge)
- C# (knowledge)
- C++ (knowledge)
- Cisco (knowledge)
- cloud monitoring and reporting (knowledge)
- cloud security and compliance (knowledge)
- COBOL (knowledge)
- CoffeeScript (knowledge)
- Common Lisp (knowledge)
- comply with legal regulations (skill/competence)
- computer programming (knowledge)
- cooperate with colleagues (skill/competence)
- Erlang (knowledge)
- execute ICT audits (skill/competence)
- Groovy (knowledge)
- Haskell (knowledge)
- ICT encryption (knowledge)
- ICT network security risks (knowledge)
- ICT safety (nan)
- ICT security legislation (knowledge)
- implement a firewall (skill/competence)
- implement a virtual private network (skill/competence)
- implement anti-virus software (skill/competence)
- implement cloud security and compliance (skill/competence)
- implement ICT security policies (skill/competence)
- install low voltage wiring (skill/competence)
- Internet of Things (knowledge)
- Java (computer programming) (knowledge)
- JavaScript (knowledge)
- Lisp (knowledge)
- manage cloud data and storage (skill/competence)
- manage IT security compliances (skill/competence)
- manage keys for data protection (skill/competence)
- MATLAB (knowledge)
- Microsoft Visual C++ (knowledge)
- ML (computer programming) (knowledge)
- Objective-C (knowledge)
- OpenEdge Advanced Business Language (knowledge)
- organisational resilience (knowledge)
- Pascal (computer programming) (knowledge)
- Perl (knowledge)
- PHP (knowledge)
- Prolog (computer programming) (knowledge)
- Python (computer programming) (knowledge)
- R (knowledge)
- remove computer virus or malware from a computer (skill/competence)
- Ruby (computer programming) (knowledge)
- SAP R3 (knowledge)
- SAS language (knowledge)
- Scala (knowledge)
- Scratch (computer programming) (knowledge)
- Smalltalk (computer programming) (knowledge)
- Swift (computer programming) (knowledge)
- TypeScript (knowledge)
- use back-up and recovery tools (skill/competence)
- VBScript (knowledge)
- Visual Basic (knowledge)
Market evidence (job-ad analysis, 18 ads, as of 2026-07-12)
Share of analyzed job ads mentioning the item (threshold ≥ 20 %). Source: JSearch/Adzuna APIs.
Hard skills
- risk assessment — 56 %
- incident response — 39 %
- security control implementation — 28 %
- vulnerability management — 28 %
- system security plan development — 22 %
- vulnerability assessment — 22 %
- risk management — 22 %
- network security — 17 %
Methods
- risk management framework (rmf) — 28 %
- continuous monitoring — 17 %
Responsibilities
- security control implementation — 17 %