T Level Digital Route: Skills Targets

These are the employability and technical skills targets for the T Levels in the Digital route, broken down by occupational specialism. Use them to set learning goals and placement objectives in Navigate.

Routes covered

• T Level: Digital Business Services
• T Level: Digital Production, Design and Development
• T Level: Digital Support Services

Digital Business Services

Employability skills targets

• Self-managing: Monitoring, reflecting, and inviting feedback on own performance, managing time, setting personal goals, referring to others for advice.
• Communicating: Active listening, use of visual, oral, and written methods, engaging an audience, sharing, building rapport, adapting style and tone.
• Planning: Identifying discrete steps, estimating time and resources, prioritising, coordinating, sequencing activity.
• Creativity: Lateral thinking, making novel connections, handling ambiguity, taking acceptable risks, forming ideas iteratively, future-proofing.
• Decision making: Clarifying logical choices, identifying likely impact, using evidence and advice, justifying, substantiating, concluding.
• Recording: Transcribing, noting, capturing, saving, storing.
• Presenting: Conveying information to an audience to stimulate discussion, and/or secure consistent understanding.

Technical skills targets

• Receiving and confirming a brief.
• Sourcing and migrating data from different sources.
• Collecting data from the web, social media, spreadsheets, and/or audio-visual sources and organising it into an easier-to-use format.
• Manipulating and linking different data sets.
• Using tools and techniques to identify trends and patterns in data.
• Cross-checking techniques for identifying faults in data results.
• Cleaning data by removing typos, duplicate entries, out-of-date data.
• Summarising and explaining gathered data.
• Producing clear documentation using standard organisational templates.
• Using different data visualisation techniques (e.g., tables, charts, graphs, 3D models).

Digital Production, Design and Development

Employability skills targets

• Team working: Working with others with different skills, expertise, and experience to accomplish a task or goal.
• Assessing risks: Assessing a situation, a proposal, a product, or process for potential adverse effects.
• Designing: Developing the form of an artefact or system to achieve a defined function.
• Decision making: Clarifying logical choices, identifying likely impact, using evidence and advice, justifying, substantiating, concluding.
• Solving problems: Applying a logical approach to identifying issues and proposing solutions.

Technical skills targets

• Interpreting and analysing designs based on relevant information.
• Writing up a design based on user requirements.
• Using collaboration tools to enable communication and cooperation.
• Following processes such as tracking and managing changes to code or design requirements.
• Recording risks in different ways.
• Searching for information relevant to a specific software testing issue or topic.
• Creating a template to describe what needs to be done to test a web, mobile, or desktop application.
• Applying testing principles (e.g., user acceptance testing).

Digital Infrastructure

Employability skills targets

• Communicating: Active listening, use of visual, oral, and written methods, engaging an audience, sharing, building rapport, adapting style and tone.
• Investigating: Identifying sources, developing search criteria/queries, interrogating data, designing and carrying out tests.
• Recording: Transcribing, noting, capturing, saving, storing.
• Self-managing: Monitoring, reflecting, and inviting feedback on own performance, managing time, setting personal goals, referring to others for advice.
• Solving problems: Applying a logical approach to identifying issues and proposing solutions.
• Planning: Identifying discrete steps, estimating time and resources, prioritising, coordinating, sequencing activity.
• Decision making: Clarifying logical choices, identifying likely impact, using evidence and advice, justifying, substantiating, concluding.
• Evaluating: Considering and appraising process and evidence, making recommendations.

Technical skills targets

• Understanding how the organisation’s security requirements are met and the different ways of assessing risk.
• Explaining the organisation framework for troubleshooting and practical problem management.
• Capturing information about infrastructure problems.
• Recording a response to an incident or fault detected.
• Testing a virtual or physical network (e.g., server or firewall).
• Identifying probable causes of a problem.
• Developing an action plan to resolve a problem.
• Implementing the chosen solution.
• Recording the interventions taken and the outcome.
• Reviewing a problem or incident to ensure it is resolved.

Digital Support

Employability skills targets

• Communicating: Active listening, use of visual, oral, and written methods, engaging an audience, sharing, building rapport, adapting style and tone.
• Recording: Transcribing, noting, capturing, saving, storing.
• Self-managing: Monitoring, reflecting, and inviting feedback on own performance, managing time, setting personal goals, referring to others for advice.
• Investigating: Identifying sources, developing search criteria/queries, interrogating data, designing and carrying out tests.
• Analysing: Identifying common features, organising into types, discerning patterns, deconstructing, classifying, ordering.
• Evaluating: Considering and appraising process and evidence, making recommendations.
• Presenting: Conveying information to an audience to stimulate discussion, and/or secure consistent understanding.
• Assessing risks: Assessing a situation, a proposal, a product, or process for potential adverse effects.
• Planning: Identifying discrete steps, estimating time and resources, prioritising, coordinating, sequencing activity.

Technical skills targets

• Understanding how the organisation’s security requirements are met and the different ways of assessing risk.
• Explaining the organisation framework for troubleshooting and practical problem management.
• Capturing information about service user problems.
• Recording a response to a service user problem.
• Monitoring information systems.
• Analysing fault and call logs.
• Identifying probable causes of a problem.
• Developing an action plan to resolve a problem.
• Implementing and recording the chosen solution.
• Using the organisation’s systems to identify and service desk problems that have not been solved.
• Communicating unresolved problems in an appropriate format.
• Configuring accessories of a mobile device for network connectivity.
• Installing and configuring software onto a laptop, smartphone, or printer/scanner.
• Installing collaboration software applications.

Network Cabling

Employability skills targets

• Communicating: Active listening, use of visual, oral, and written methods, engaging an audience, sharing, building rapport, adapting style and tone.
• Working in a team: Working with others with different skills, expertise, and experience to accomplish a task or goal.
• Investigating: Identifying sources, developing search criteria/queries, interrogating data, designing and carrying out tests.
• Solving problems: Applying a logical approach to identifying issues and proposing solutions.
• Analysing: Identifying common features, organising into types, discerning patterns, deconstructing, classifying, ordering.
• Recording: Transcribing, noting, capturing, saving, storing.
• Creativity: Lateral thinking, making novel connections, handling ambiguity, taking acceptable risks, forming ideas iteratively, future-proofing.
• Physical dexterity: Precise and controlled movement, agility, coordination, delicacy, appropriate application of force.

Technical skills targets

• Capturing necessary information of cabling plans.
• Checking service orders, drawings, and instructions.
• Understanding the need to work safely.
• Selecting appropriate tools for testing.
• Testing circuits and components.
• Recording a response to a fault detected.
• Assisting with the assembly and arrangement of material and equipment.

Cyber Security

Employability skills targets

• Communicating: Active listening, use of visual, oral, and written methods, engaging an audience, sharing, building rapport, adapting style and tone.
• Recording: Transcribing, noting, capturing, saving, storing.
• Self-managing: Monitoring, reflecting, and inviting feedback on own performance, managing time, setting personal goals, referring to others for advice.
• Investigating: Identifying sources, developing search criteria/queries, interrogating data, designing and carrying out tests.
• Analysing: Identifying common features, organising into types, discerning patterns, deconstructing, classifying, ordering.
• Evaluating: Considering and appraising process and evidence, making recommendations.
• Presenting: Conveying information to an audience to stimulate discussion, and/or secure consistent understanding.
• Assessing risks: Assessing a situation, a proposal, a product, or process for potential adverse effects.
• Planning: Identifying discrete steps, estimating time and resources, prioritising, coordinating, sequencing activity.

Technical skills targets

Support with Network Security

• Implementing and managing firewalls and intrusion detection/prevention systems.
• Conducting network vulnerability assessments and penetration testing.
• Monitoring network traffic for suspicious activity and responding to security incidents.

Support with Endpoint Security

• Installing and configuring antivirus and anti-malware software.
• Managing endpoint detection and response (EDR) solutions.
• Performing regular security audits on endpoint devices.

Security Operations

• Participating in security operations centre (SOC) activities.
• Analysing security alerts and logs to identify potential threats.
• Assisting in incident response and forensic investigations.

Identity and Access Management

• Implementing multi-factor authentication (MFA) solutions.
• Managing user access controls and permissions.
• Conducting regular audits of user accounts and access rights.

Compliance and Risk Management

• Assisting in the development and implementation of security policies and procedures.
• Conducting risk assessments and vulnerability management.
• Ensuring compliance with relevant regulations and standards (e.g., GDPR, ISO 27001).

Security Awareness and Training

• Developing and delivering security awareness training programs.
• Creating educational materials on best security practices.
• Conducting phishing simulations and other security awareness activities.

Source document attached below.