Skill map
Know what you bring. See what you can build.
Eight skill families, grouped so you can tell existing strengths from transferable capabilities and from the gaps still worth closing.
Interactive skill map
Select what you can already evidence
Related career families appear as you select. This matches your choices against the skills listed on each career page — nothing more.
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Tick the skills you can already evidence. Related career families appear here as you go.
This matches your selections against the skills listed on each career page. It is an exploration tool, not a validated aptitude test, and it does not assess you.
Existing strengths
Things you have done repeatedly, with evidence you could point to. These anchor your story.
Transferable capabilities
Skills built elsewhere that apply in a new context, once you can explain the connection.
Development areas
Gaps between where you are and a direction you are considering. Useful, not disqualifying.
The eight families
What each group covers
Technical skills
Working directly with code, systems, queries and the tools that run them.
- SQL
- Python
- JavaScript
- Version control
- APIs
- Databases
- Cloud basics
- Automation
Analytical skills
Framing a question, testing it against evidence, and knowing what the answer cannot cover.
- Statistics fundamentals
- Experiment design
- Forecasting
- Root-cause analysis
- Segmentation
- Financial modelling
Communication
Writing and speaking so that a decision can be made by someone who was not in the room.
- Technical writing
- Presenting
- Documentation
- Interface copy
- Stakeholder updates
- Editing
Problem-solving
Breaking a vague difficulty into parts small enough to actually attack.
- Decomposition
- Debugging
- Process mapping
- Trade-off reasoning
- Threat modelling
- Prioritisation
Collaboration
Getting work done with people who have different incentives from yours.
- Code review
- Facilitation
- Cross-team coordination
- Giving and taking critique
- Pairing
- Handover
Leadership
Setting direction and carrying responsibility — often without formal authority.
- Mentoring
- Scoping
- Decision-making under uncertainty
- Influence without authority
- Conflict handling
- Hiring
Digital fluency
Moving comfortably through modern tooling, including AI tools, without being led by them.
- Spreadsheets at depth
- Working with AI tools
- Analytics platforms
- No-code automation
- Security hygiene
- Data privacy awareness
Domain knowledge
Knowing a field well enough to tell a plausible answer from a correct one.
- Industry regulation
- Customer understanding
- Process knowledge
- Clinical or technical context
- Market literacy