Where a software developer can go next
12 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a software developer already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Software developers implement or program all kinds of software systems based on specifications and designs by using programming languages, tools, and platforms.
- Highest coverage recorded
- 76%
- Destinations
- 12each with a full record
- Within reach
- 7difficulty under 55
- Skills on file
- 108required or supplementary
Table 1 · Within reach
- ICT system developer 76% covered · difficulty 37.8
- digital games developer 73% covered · difficulty 38.4
- numerical tool and process control programmer 69% covered · difficulty 44.7
- web developer 69% covered · difficulty 47.1
- user interface developer 69% covered · difficulty 45.7
- computer-aided design operator 64% covered · difficulty 52
- industrial mobile devices software developer 81% covered · difficulty 29.6
Table 2 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
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How these figures were compiled
Coverage is the share of the target role’s weighted skill requirement a software developer already meets, counting required skills in full and supplementary ones at 0.35. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.