If you are applying for jobs in Italy, it helps to know which skills actually show up in employer job ads, not just which skills are popular in general. Looking at NewLuxJob's own job postings for Italy gives a role-by-role picture of what companies are asking for right now.
Finance and accounting: reporting tops the list
Across 219 Accountant Auditor postings in Italy, Reporting appears in 60% of ads, making it the single most requested skill for this role. Auditing follows at 41%, then Excel at 38% and Tax at 30%. Consolidation shows up in 22% of postings and SAP in 20%. For anyone applying to finance and accounting roles, this suggests reporting and audit experience are worth highlighting before software skills like SAP.
Customer support: communication still wins over tools
Out of 155 Customer Support postings, Communication is requested in 59% of ads, well ahead of any specific software. CRM experience is next at 39%, followed by Troubleshooting at 28% and English at 27%. Live Chat appears in 12% of postings and Ticketing in 7%. The pattern here is that employers list a general skill (communication) above any particular platform, which is different from what shows up in more technical roles.
Data and software roles: Python shows up everywhere
For Data Analyst postings (176 in total), Python leads at 53%, with SQL close behind at 48%. Excel still appears in 36% of ads, Statistics in 35%, Machine Learning in 32% and Power BI in 24%.
Software Developer postings (174 in total) show a different mix at the top: Agile/Scrum is requested in 47% of ads, ahead of Java at 38% and Python at 33%. SQL, Docker and AWS each appear in 22% of postings. Between the two roles, Python is the one skill that appears prominently in both, though at different rates.
Sales, logistics and engineering ads
In Sales postings (208 total), CRM is the most requested skill at 44%, followed by Pipeline at 32% and B2B at 31%. Negotiation appears in 27% of ads, Salesforce in 13% and Account Management in 12%.
Driver Logistics postings (77 total) are dominated by one skill: Logistics itself appears in 84% of ads, far above anything else listed. Warehouse follows at 27%, Delivery and SAP are tied at 19% each, and Driving Licence and Forklift appear in 5% and 4% of postings respectively.
Engineer postings (188 total) most often ask for Project Management, in 33% of ads, followed by MATLAB at 19%, CAD at 17%, Lean at 15%, AutoCAD at 13% and SAP at 10%.
Management: leadership and strategy tie closely
Across 582 Manager postings, the largest sample in this data, Leadership and Stakeholder Management are tied at the top, each appearing in 44% of ads. Strategy is close behind at 43%. Project Management shows up in 28% of postings, Budgeting in 26% and KPI in 16%. The closeness between Leadership, Stakeholder Management and Strategy suggests employers writing management job ads in Italy tend to ask for a similar cluster of skills rather than one standout requirement.
Taken together, these figures cover eight roles and give a sense of what Italian employers are prioritizing in their own words, role by role, based on the job ads currently on NewLuxJob.
Source, updated daily: https://newluxjob.com/en/blog/what-employers-in-italy-actually-ask-for-skill-by-skill
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