Programmer Skills you Need for your CV and Career in It & Telecoms

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Programmer Skills List in It & Telecoms

Below we have compiled a list of the most popular skills for a Programmer role. We ranked the top skills based on the percentage of Programmer job descriptions they appeared on. For example, 50% of Programmer job descriptions contained c++ as a required skill.

Keywords / Skills

Popularity

c++
50%
software
50%
c#
34%
software engineer
34%
software developer
34%
api development
17%
backend development
17%
coding
17%
java
17%
pair programming
17%
software development
17%
javascript
17%
php
17%
dba
17%
sql
17%
rust
17%
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