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    • Overall management: ICT or ICT and organization - 09
    • Planing (Plan)
      • Overall management: planning, managing and consulting - 02
      • ICT architect - 46
      • ICT Consultant - 54
      • ICT controller - 22
      • ICT quality manager - 44
      • ICT security officer - 19
      • ICT sourcing manager - 48
    • Development (Build)
      • Overall management: design, engineering, deployment and implementation - 03
      • Application developer - 35
      • Data scientist - 36
      • Database specialist - 12
      • ICT requirements engineer - 67
      • ICT security specialist - 20
      • ICT systems engineer - 65
      • ICT test engineer - 58
      • ICT test manager - 49
      • Network specialist - 37
      • Software engineer - 90
      • User experience architect - 25
      • Business information specialist - 26
    • Operation (Run)
      • Overall management: operation, administration and support - 04
      • Application manager - 28
      • Database administrator - 77
      • ICT operator - 64
      • ICT system controller - 33
      • ICT change manager - 69
      • ICT helpdesk staff - 41
      • ICT production planner - 51
      • ICT security operations manager - 21
      • ICT service manager - 94
      • ICT supporter - 73
      • ICT system administrator - 78
      • ICT systems specialist - 14
      • ICT technician - 62
      • Network administrator - 39
    • Project management and project orientation (PM)
      • Overall management: Project management - 05
      • Program manager - 47
      • Project head - 89
      • Project management officer - 84
    • Organization and business management (ORG)
      • Overall management: Organization - 06
      • Business analyst - 95
      • Organizational manager - 98
      • Process manager - 96
      • Business organizer - 97
    • Methodology-related occupations (Agile)
      • Product manager - 87
      • Product owner - 34
      • Release train engineer (RTE) - 86
      • Scrum master - 88
      • DevOps engineer - 27
    • Arcived job-descriptions
      • Mediamatician - 60
      • Business-engineer - 17
      • Business architect - 93
      • ICT auditor – Senior [S3] - 82
      • ICT user support - 56
      • ICT customer advisor – Senior [S3] - 34
      • ICT trainer – Senior [S3] - 27
      • Project manager - 23
      • Project assistant - 81
      • DC planner – Senior [S3] - 66
      • Network architect – Senior [S3] - 79
      • Webmaster - 18
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  • ‘Cyber-safe’ certified

    04. March 2025

    SwissICT received the ‘Cyber-Safe’ certificate in 2025, which underscores its commitment to the highest security standards. This certification comes at a time when cybersecurity is becoming increasingly important in the Swiss economy.

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  • Conversion from competence levels to levels

    17. January 2025

    The previous ‘competence levels’ are now called ‘levels’ to avoid confusion with the competence areas and to ensure simpler, clearer communication.

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  • ICT professions via API

    18. December 2024

    Now it's possible! Connect your company system and receive the latest job profile data in your desired system environment. Find out more about the options here.

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  • Revision of synonyms

    18. December 2024

    Discover the revised job profiles and benefit from even more precise information for your planning and decision-making.

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  • Interpersonal task or not?

    23. October 2024

    As of today, all operational job profiles have been revised so that a distinction is now made between interpersonal and technical tasks.

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  • Next Level in “ICT Professions”

    04. July 2024

    Do you work with the swissICT job profiles? Or are you a participant in the ICT salary study?
    New opportunities are now opening up!

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  • Participation in ICT salary study 2024

    10. December 2023

    All companies with at least one full-time IT position (1 FTE) in Switzerland can register to participate in the 2024 salary study.

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  • Jobs vs. roles

    07. November 2023

    The shift from traditional to agile organizational forms is leading to plan, build and run careers becoming role-based jobs. The swissICT working group “ICT Professions” publishes the work of the same name entitled “ICT Professions”, containing around 50 career descriptions.

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  • Call for partners “Do good and talk about it!”

    17. October 2023

    Let’s tackle this together and find out more about the HOW and WHY. This swissICT project needs your support and you can take on the key role as a sponsor or partner.

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  • How can I differentiate between a software engineer and application developer?

    04. October 2023

    Is your understanding of the difference between the two job profiles consistent with ours? Check to be able to better compare.

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