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Where an ICT system analyst can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role an ICT system analyst already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

ICT system analysts specify the system needs to meet the end user requirements. They analyse system functions in order to define their goals or purposes and to discover operations and procedures for accomplishing them most efficiently. They also design new IT solutions to improve business efficiency and productivity, produce outline designs and estimate costs of new systems, specify the operations the system will perform, and the way data will be viewed by the end user. They present the design to the users and work closely with the users to implement the solution.

Also known as ICT system analysts, ICT systems analysts, ICT systems analyst, system analyst, IT system analyst, network analyst, systems analyst, IT systems analyst.

Professionals 97 skills on file 5 career moves 3 above 60% overlap Closest: numerical tool and process control programmer, 68%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
numerical tool and process co… 68% covered computer-aided design operator 62% covered software analyst 61% covered software tester 58% covered embedded system designer 51% covered ICT system analyst You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from ICT system analyst, each one a link to that move’s record. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role an ICT system analyst already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.

Table 3

Table 3 · What the job itself asks for

An ICT system analyst needs 28 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • manage ICT legacy implication working with computers
  • software metrics information and communication technologies (icts)
  • online analytical processing information and communication technologies (icts)
  • analyse the context of an organisation information skills
  • design information system communication, collaboration and creativity
  • manage system testing constructing
  • perform ICT security testing working with computers
  • software architecture models information and communication technologies (icts)
  • analyse ICT system working with computers
  • identify ICT system weaknesses working with computers
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what an ICT system analyst does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

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ICT system analyst is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.

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How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of an ICT system analyst’s work. 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.