Job ads talk in generalities: "strong communication skills," "team player," "fast-paced environment." What they list under required skills is more useful. Below is a breakdown of the skills that appear most often across roles posted on NewLuxJob in Luxembourg, role by role, with the share of postings mentioning each one.
Finance, audit and accounting
Out of 184 accountant and auditor postings, Auditing appears in 68%, Tax in 60% and Reporting in 55%. IFRS shows up in 38% of postings, Consolidation in 28% and Excel in 27%.
In general finance postings (79 total), Excel leads at 53%, followed by Budgeting at 34% and SAP at 25%. Financial Modeling appears in 23% of postings, Power BI in 22% and Controlling in 19%. Between the two role types, Excel and SAP recur as the shared baseline, while IFRS and Consolidation are specific to audit-track roles.
Legal and compliance
Legal postings (118 total) put Regulatory knowledge at the top, named in 80% of listings, ahead of Contract Law at 55% and Drafting at 53%. Compliance is listed in 37% of postings, Negotiation in 23% and Litigation in 19%. The gap between Regulatory at 80% and the next most common skill suggests employers treat regulatory knowledge as close to a baseline requirement for legal roles in Luxembourg, rather than a differentiator.
Data and software skills
Data Analyst postings (102 total) most often ask for SQL, at 55%, followed by Python at 35% and Excel at 34%. Power BI appears in 27% of postings, Machine Learning in 13% and Statistics in 12%.
Software Developer postings (65 total) spread more evenly: CI/CD at 37%, Python and Agile/Scrum tied at 34%, Java at 32%, SQL at 31% and Azure at 25%. Python and SQL both show up on the Data Analyst and Software Developer lists, which points to some overlap in the technical baseline expected across these two roles.
Management, consulting and customer-facing roles
Manager postings, the largest single category at 341, list Strategy in 58% and Stakeholder Management in 52%. Leadership follows at 45%, Project Management at 28%, Budgeting at 22% and Coaching at 21%.
Consultant postings (90 total) also lead with Strategy, at 59%, with Excel and Stakeholder Management tied at 24%. Agile appears in 23% of postings, Project Management in 16% and SAP in 16%.
Customer Support postings (89 total) stand out for language requirements: German appears in 69% of postings, ahead of Communication at 56% and English at 39%. Troubleshooting is listed in 25% of postings, CRM in 9% and Live Chat in 4%.
Sales postings (54 total) are led by Negotiation, at 56%, followed by Pipeline at 41%, CRM at 30%, Account Management at 26%, B2B at 20% and Cold Calling at 15%.
Logistics, security and engineering
Driver Logistics postings (39 total) most often list Logistics itself, at 56%, followed by Warehouse at 41% and Delivery at 33%. Driving Licence and Forklift are tied at 31%, with Order Picking at 10%.
Engineer postings (89 total) are dominated by Project Management, listed in 62% of postings, well ahead of MATLAB at 17%, CAD at 13%, SAP at 12%, Lean at 10% and AutoCAD at 8%.
Security postings (53 total) center on Reporting, named in 74% of listings, followed by Access Control at 30%. Surveillance appears in 9% of postings, Driving Licence in 8%, and CCTV and First Aid are tied at 2% each.
These figures reflect the skills listed in postings for each role on NewLuxJob and are not a ranking of which skills matter most in practice. For a closer look at any single role, the full postings are searchable by category on the site.
Source, updated daily: https://newluxjob.com/en/blog/what-luxembourg-employers-actually-ask-for-skills-by-role-straight-from-the-job-postings
