91 Examples of Coding Skills

John Spacey, February 14, 2021

Coding skills are talents, knowledge and experience that allow an individual to create valuable software. This varies from the ability to code simple scripts that automate tasks to the ability to participate or lead large and complex development efforts. Coding skills include foundational knowledge of mathematics, computing theory and logic. They also include experience with technologies, environments, problem solving, projects and design that allow an individual to be productive in a business context as a software developer. The following are common examples of coding skills.

APIs	Algorithms
Application Integration	Artificial Intelligence
Audit Trail	Back-end Development
Batch Processing	Blockchain
CSS	Cloud Computing
Code Refactoring	Compression
Computation Theory	Computational Logic
Computing Infrastructure	Configuration Management
Container Technologies	Content Management Systems
Continuous Integration	Cryptography
Data Integration	Data Structures
Database Design	Databases
Debugging	Deployment Automation
Design Documents	Developer Tools
Development Frameworks	Devops
Distributed Systems	Edge Computing
Embedded Systems	Encryption
Error Detection	Error Tolerance
Estimates	Event Processing
Front-end Development	HTML
Identity & Authorization	Incident Management
Information Retrieval	Information Security
Javascript	Linux / Unix
Load Balancing	Logging
Machine Learning	Mathematics
Messaging Frameworks	Microservices
Mobile Development	Networking
NoSQL Datastores	Object-oriented Programming
Operating Systems	Parallel Processing
Platforms	Production Support
Programming Languages	Project Planning
Quality Assurance	Real-time Computing
Reliability Engineering	Requirements Gathering
Reusability	Robotics
SQL	Scalability
Scientific Computing	Scripting
Secure Code Review	Secure Coding Practices
Service-oriented Programming	Session Management
Software Architecture	Software Design
Software Development Lifecycle	Software Maintenance
Software Testing	Specifications
Standards	Statistics
System Administration	Systems Analysis
Systems Programming	Troubleshooting
Unstructured Data	Use Cases
Web Development