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Institute of Advanced Technological and Commercial Studies

TP16 · Level 5

Application Developer

Target occupation: experienced developer.

Target occupation
experienced developer
Level
5 — Senior technician and supervisor
Duration
12 months
Taught hours
800 h
Credits
80

Framework

Competency blocks

Each block is assessed separately and stays acquired. That is what lets you resume an interrupted path without starting over.

  1. Application design

    200 hours

    Modelling, layered architecture, patterns, technical debt

  2. Development and quality

    220 hours

    Typed languages, automated testing, review, continuous integration

  3. Data and integration

    190 hours

    Modelling, efficient queries, interfaces, message queues

  4. Deployment and operations

    140 hours

    Containers, environments, monitoring, fixing in production

  5. Professional conduct

    50 hours

    Estimation, teamwork, working with the business

Questions

How is this title awarded?

Through a workplace simulation before a panel of practitioners, together with a professional portfolio recording what you actually produced. An occupation is proven by practising it, not on paper.

What employment rate do you publish?

None, and that is deliberate: no cohort has yet completed this title. The six-month employment rate is this family's own indicator, and we will publish it once a cohort has produced one — not before. An invented figure here would be the first thing an employer checks.

Application Developer — IHETC