Career Overlap Transition record Edition 1 · ESCO v1.2.1
Table 1Transition record

ICT system analysttosoftware analyst

A ICT system analyst already meets 61% of what the software analyst role asks for. The move turns on 11 required skills not yet in the profile.

From ICT system analyst
61%
Overlap1
To software analyst
68 Skills carried over
11 Required, not held
54.2 Difficulty2
Career overlap Strong match

61%

Learning distance Real move, short list to learn

54.2/ 100

1 Share of the software analyst role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the ICT system analyst profile. Required skills count in full, supplementary skills at 0.35. Directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. 2 Combines what is missing with how specialised it is, so a gap of general skills scores easier than the same number of narrow ones.

Why

Why this move works

A software analyst role treats 8 of its required skills as things a ICT system analyst already does. These are the ones it depends on most.

  • analyse business processes
  • create data models
  • define technical requirements
  • design information system
  • execute feasibility study
  • interact with users to gather requirements

What stands in the way is 11 required skills the profile does not yet cover. Table 3 groups them; Table 4 says which to take first.

Table 2

Table 2 · What you already bring

Of the 68 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A software analyst role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a ICT system analyst background worth leading with.

Skill the target role also needs Area
  • already held manage ICT legacy implication working with computers
  • already held unified modelling language information and communication technologies (icts)
  • already held design information system communication, collaboration and creativity
  • already held software architecture models information and communication technologies (icts)
  • already held manage system testing constructing
  • already held analyse ICT system working with computers

All 68 carried skills, including the 8 the software analyst role treats as required.

Table 3

Table 3 · What you would need to learn

The 33 missing skills fall into 7 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, numbered below in the order worth working in: the areas carrying the most required skills come first, and inside each one the required skills sit above the supplementary ones.

Skill to acquire Tier
01 communication, collaboration and creativity 4 required
  • required, not held create software design required
  • required, not held define software architecture required
  • required, not held develop documentation in accordance with legal requirements required
  • required, not held translate requirements into visual design required
02 information and communication technologies (icts) 3 required, 12 supplementary
  • required, not held ICT system user requirements required
  • required, not held data models required
  • required, not held software design methodologies required
  • optional, not held Agile development optional
  • optional, not held DevOps optional
  • optional, not held ICT problem management techniques optional
  • optional, not held Prototyping development optional
  • optional, not held Rapid application development optional
  • optional, not held SPARK optional
  • optional, not held Spiral development optional
  • optional, not held Waterfall development optional
  • optional, not held incremental development optional
  • optional, not held inter-organisational middleware system optional
  • optional, not held iterative development optional
  • optional, not held trading software optional
03 business, administration and law 2 required, 5 supplementary
  • required, not held business requirements techniques required
  • required, not held legal requirements of ICT products required
  • optional, not held Agile project management optional
  • optional, not held ICT project management optional
  • optional, not held ICT project management methodologies optional
  • optional, not held Process-based management optional
  • optional, not held lean project management optional
04 information skills 1 required, 1 supplementary
  • required, not held identify ICT user needs required
  • optional, not held create prototype of user experience solutions optional
05 working with computers 1 required
  • required, not held develop software prototype required
06 assisting and caring 2 supplementary
  • optional, not held ensure compliance with company regulations optional
  • optional, not held ensure compliance with legal requirements optional

1 further area in the appendix

Table 4

Table 4 · Where to start

The 3 entries a software analyst role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.

Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.

Appendix

Appendix · The rest of the record

All 68 skills that carry over
Skill Type
  • already held analyse business processes skill
  • already held create data models skill
  • already held define technical requirements skill
  • already held design information system skill
  • already held execute feasibility study skill
  • already held interact with users to gather requirements skill
  • already held manage ICT legacy implication skill
  • already held software architecture models knowledge
  • already held ABAP knowledge
  • already held AJAX knowledge
  • already held APL knowledge
  • already held ASP.NET knowledge
  • already held Assembly (computer programming) knowledge
  • already held C# knowledge
  • already held C++ knowledge
  • already held COBOL knowledge
  • already held CoffeeScript knowledge
  • already held Common Lisp knowledge
  • already held Erlang knowledge
  • already held Groovy knowledge
  • already held Haskell knowledge
  • already held Java (computer programming) knowledge
  • already held JavaScript knowledge
  • already held LDAP knowledge
  • already held LINQ knowledge
  • already held Lisp knowledge
  • already held MATLAB knowledge
  • already held MDX knowledge
  • already held ML (computer programming) knowledge
  • already held N1QL knowledge
  • already held Objective-C knowledge
  • already held Open source model knowledge
  • already held OpenEdge Advanced Business Language knowledge
  • already held Outsourcing model knowledge
  • already held PHP knowledge
  • already held Pascal (computer programming) knowledge
  • already held Perl knowledge
  • already held Prolog (computer programming) knowledge
  • already held Python (computer programming) knowledge
  • already held R knowledge
  • already held Ruby (computer programming) knowledge
  • already held SAP R3 knowledge
  • already held SAS language knowledge
  • already held SPARQL knowledge
  • already held Scala knowledge
  • already held Scratch (computer programming) knowledge
  • already held Smalltalk (computer programming) knowledge
  • already held Swift (computer programming) knowledge
  • already held TypeScript knowledge
  • already held VBScript knowledge
  • already held Visual Basic knowledge
  • already held XQuery knowledge
  • already held analyse ICT system skill
  • already held computer programming knowledge
  • already held core banking software knowledge
  • already held hybrid model knowledge
  • already held identify ICT system weaknesses skill
  • already held levels of software testing knowledge
  • already held manage system testing skill
  • already held monitor system performance skill
  • already held object-oriented modelling knowledge
  • already held provide ICT consulting advice skill
  • already held query languages knowledge
  • already held resource description framework query language knowledge
  • already held service-oriented modelling knowledge
  • already held solve ICT system problems skill
  • already held unified modelling language knowledge
  • already held use an application-specific interface skill
The 1 learning area not shown above
Skill to acquire Tier
07 management skills 2 supplementary
  • optional, not held manage ICT project optional
  • optional, not held create project specifications optional
22 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
Skill to acquire Tier
  • optional, not held Agile development optional
  • optional, not held Agile project management optional
  • optional, not held DevOps optional
  • optional, not held ICT problem management techniques optional
  • optional, not held ICT project management optional
  • optional, not held ICT project management methodologies optional
  • optional, not held Process-based management optional
  • optional, not held Prototyping development optional
  • optional, not held Rapid application development optional
  • optional, not held SPARK optional
  • optional, not held Spiral development optional
  • optional, not held Waterfall development optional
  • optional, not held create prototype of user experience solutions optional
  • optional, not held incremental development optional
  • optional, not held inter-organisational middleware system optional
  • optional, not held iterative development optional
  • optional, not held lean project management optional
  • optional, not held manage ICT project optional
  • optional, not held trading software optional
  • optional, not held create project specifications optional
  • optional, not held ensure compliance with company regulations optional
  • optional, not held ensure compliance with legal requirements optional
29 held skills the software analyst role does not ask for
Skill Type
  • not needed by the target role Apache Tomcat knowledge
  • not needed by the target role ICT infrastructure knowledge
  • not needed by the target role ICT performance analysis methods knowledge
  • not needed by the target role ICT process quality models knowledge
  • not needed by the target role Microsoft Visual C++ knowledge
  • not needed by the target role NoSQL knowledge
  • not needed by the target role analyse software specifications skill
  • not needed by the target role analyse the context of an organisation skill
  • not needed by the target role apply statistical analysis techniques skill
  • not needed by the target role attack vectors knowledge
  • not needed by the target role audit techniques knowledge
  • not needed by the target role automate cloud tasks skill
  • not needed by the target role conduct quantitative research skill
  • not needed by the target role data mining knowledge
  • not needed by the target role decision support systems knowledge
  • not needed by the target role digital systems knowledge
  • not needed by the target role distributed computing knowledge
  • not needed by the target role execute analytical mathematical calculations skill
  • not needed by the target role hardware architectures knowledge
  • not needed by the target role hardware platforms knowledge
  • not needed by the target role identify customer requirements skill
  • not needed by the target role implement a firewall skill
  • not needed by the target role implement a virtual private network skill
  • not needed by the target role online analytical processing knowledge
  • not needed by the target role perform ICT security testing skill
  • not needed by the target role software metrics knowledge
  • not needed by the target role system design knowledge
  • not needed by the target role systems development life-cycle knowledge
  • not needed by the target role use query languages skill
22 gaps that are knowledge rather than practice

Knowledge gaps usually close through study. Practical skill gaps usually need something you can point at.

Skill to acquire Tier
  • required, not held ICT system user requirements required
  • required, not held business requirements techniques required
  • required, not held data models required
  • required, not held software design methodologies required
  • required, not held legal requirements of ICT products required
  • optional, not held Agile development optional
  • optional, not held Agile project management optional
  • optional, not held DevOps optional
  • optional, not held ICT problem management techniques optional
  • optional, not held ICT project management optional
  • optional, not held ICT project management methodologies optional
  • optional, not held Process-based management optional
  • optional, not held Prototyping development optional
  • optional, not held Rapid application development optional
  • optional, not held SPARK optional
  • optional, not held Spiral development optional
  • optional, not held Waterfall development optional
  • optional, not held incremental development optional
  • optional, not held inter-organisational middleware system optional
  • optional, not held iterative development optional
  • optional, not held lean project management optional
  • optional, not held trading software optional
Index

Other moves recorded from ICT system analyst

Full index of moves from ICT system analyst

Note

How this record was compiled

Both occupations are taken from ESCO, which lists the skills and knowledge each occupation is expected to have and marks every one required or optional. Nothing here is a prediction about hiring, and nothing here knows that a particular employer wants a particular certificate. Treat Table 3 as a starting point for your own research rather than a syllabus. The full method states what these figures can and cannot tell you.