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identify customer requirements

🔻 Declining ESCO reuse: cross-sector

Apply techniques and tools, such as surveys, questionnaires, ICT applications, for eliciting, defining, analysing, documenting and maintaining user requirements from system, service or product.

identify customer requirements — apply techniques and tools, such as surveys, questionnaires, ICT applications, for eliciting, defining, analysing, documenting and maintaining user requirements from system, service or product. McKinsey's Skill Change Index places it in the declining band (SCI 57.38/100) — a skill likely to fall in demand as AI and automation cover more of its ground by 2030. ESCO classifies it as a cross-sector (useful across many industries) skill within skills. It is currently listed by 9 occupations in our catalogue, including ICT consultant, application engineer, instructional designer, and marketing consultant.

Category: skills › conducting studies, investigations and examinations SCI: 57.38/100 Also known as: write research applications, gather and define user requirements, categorise customer requirements

Occupations that require identify customer requirements

Showing top 9 of 9 occupations · ranked by India employment volume, then AI-durability.

ICT consultant · 🤖 5.0/10
application engineer · 🤖 5.0/10
instructional designer · 🤖 5.0/10
marketing consultant · 🤖 5.0/10
web content manager · 🤖 5.0/10
ICT business analyst · 🤖 5.8/10
ICT system analyst · 🤖 5.8/10
ICT application developer · 🤖 5.9/10
database developer · 🤖 6.9/10

Frequently asked questions

What is identify customer requirements?

Apply techniques and tools, such as surveys, questionnaires, ICT applications, for eliciting, defining, analysing, documenting and maintaining user requirements from system, service or product.

What category of skill is identify customer requirements?

ESCO classifies identify customer requirements under the skills category, specifically in the conducting studies, investigations and examinations subcategory.

Is identify customer requirements an AI-durable skill?

McKinsey's Skill Change Index places it in the declining band (SCI 57.38/100) — a skill likely to fall in demand as AI and automation cover more of its ground by 2030. Prioritise this skill only when it directly enables paid work today — plan for AI to absorb more of it every year.

Which jobs require identify customer requirements?

In our catalogue, 9 occupations list identify customer requirements as a required or important skill. The top occupations by employment volume include ICT consultant, application engineer, instructional designer, marketing consultant, web content manager, ICT business analyst.

How transferable is identify customer requirements between industries?

ESCO tags identify customer requirements as a cross-sector (useful across many industries) skill — a signal of how portable it is when you change field.

Is identify customer requirements the same as write research applications?

Yes — identify customer requirements is also known as write research applications, gather and define user requirements, or categorise customer requirements. They refer to the same underlying capability in the ESCO taxonomy.

How can I learn identify customer requirements?

The most reliable path is to pick a job or project that demands identify customer requirements and learn through delivery. Complement that with role-specific roadmaps and short courses. Explore the occupations below to see where this skill is used in practice.

Data: ESCO v1.2.1 (CC-BY-4.0). Durability framework informed by McKinsey Global Institute (Nov 2025). See our methodology.