Skills which someone has put a name to already are nouns. But if you are trying to say something meaningful about the skills required in a rapidly-evolving fiel

Skills which someone has put a name to already are nouns. But if you are trying to say something meaningful about the skills required in a rapidly-evolving field, it is going to be hard to find prepackaged nouns and so you are going to need to use verb phrases. —— EDIT: for example, the notion of a language “working” in a mechanical sense has only been around for the past 60 years. If there is a specific noun to refer to understanding those mechanics as you type, it is obscure. This 28-year old software engineer who has worked in both the US and UK has not heard it.