Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a knowledge engineer can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a knowledge engineer already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Knowledge engineers integrate structured knowledge into computer systems (knowledge bases) in order to solve complex problems normally requiring a high level of human expertise or artificial intelligence methods. They are also responsible for eliciting or extracting knowledge from information sources, maintaining this knowledge, and making it available to the organisation or users. To achieve this, they are aware of knowledge representation and maintenance techniques (rules, frames, semantic nets, ontologies) and use knowledge extraction techniques and tools. They can design and build expert or artificial intelligence systems that use this knowledge.

Also known as linked data engineer, taxonomist, knowledge officer, information engineer, knowledge engineers.

Professionals 89 skills on file 5 career moves 4 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 artificial intelligence engin… 64% covered computer-aided design operator 63% covered database designer 61% covered data warehouse designer 59% covered knowledge engineer You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from knowledge engineer, 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 a knowledge engineer 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

A knowledge engineer needs 25 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
  • natural language processing arts and humanities
  • manage ICT semantic integration working with computers
  • create semantic trees information skills
  • manage business knowledge management skills
  • systems theory information and communication technologies (icts)
  • apply ICT systems theory working with computers
  • assess ICT knowledge management skills
  • data engineering information and communication technologies (icts)
  • database development tools information and communication technologies (icts)
  • task algorithmisation information and communication technologies (icts)
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a knowledge engineer does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

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Knowledge engineer 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 a knowledge engineer’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.