Promoting the Development of the Semiconductor Ecosystem in Costa Rica

Annex G. List of most sought-after specific skills

Table A G.1. List of most sought-after specific skills

#	Skill	AF	RF	#	Skill	AF	RF
1	Moulding (manufacturing process)	565	1.95	22	Solder paste	100	0.34
2	Dicing	379	1.31	23	Gap analysis	95	0.33
3	Wave soldering	378	1.30	24	Gaskets	88	0.30
4	Swaging	372	1.28	25	Compilers	83	0.29
5	Lamination	371	1.28	26	Register-transfer level	82	0.28
6	Trimming	363	1.25	27	Micrometre	77	0.27
7	Oscilloscope	302	1.04	28	Optics	71	0.24
8	Electromechanics	292	1.01	29	Screen printing	67	0.23
9	Films	264	0.91	30	Boundary scan	64	0.22
10	Shunt (medical instrument)	264	0.91	31	In-circuit tests	59	0.20
11	Blueprinting	220	0.76	32	USB flash drives	57	0.20
12	Tooling design	208	0.72	33	Microarchitecture	56	0.19
13	Mechanics	149	0.51	34	Arm architecture	52	0.18
14	BIOS	145	0.50	35	Palletising	42	0.14
15	Stamping (metalworking)	142	0.49	36	Closed-circuit television systems (CCTV)	40	0.14
16	Metrology	135	0.47	37	Random-access memory	37	0.13
17	Solid-state drives	135	0.47	38	Mould flow analysis	37	0.13
18	Grinding	116	0.40	39	Parsing	34	0.12
19	Sensors	114	0.39	40	Reamer	34	0.12
20	Polishing	108	0.37	41	Trenching	34	0.12
21	Composite materials	101	0.35	42	Bandsaws	33	0.11

Notes: Total job postings: 28 999.

#: ranking; AF: absolute frequency; RF: relative frequency (in %).

Source: OECD calculations based Lightcast (2023[1]), Lightcast Data - Data for the Next Move Forward, https://lightcast.io/products/data/overview.

References

[1] Lightcast (2023), Lightcast Data - Data for the Next Move Forward, https://lightcast.io/products/data/overview.