The skills you'll graduate with.
LSCT programmes are built around two parallel skill stacks: the technical fluency to build and analyse, and the business judgement to decide what's worth building. The combination is what employers say they struggle to find.
The two stacks
Equal weight, end-to-end.
Technical
- Programming
- Data & SQL
- Cloud
- Security
Business
- Strategy
- Finance
- Product
- Communication
The full breakdown of each stack appears below.
Technical skills you'll build.
Programming fundamentals
Python and JavaScript form the spine of modern software. You'll write code, read other people's code, and learn to ship things that work.
Data and SQL
Almost every job in commerce or tech now expects basic data literacy. SQL, spreadsheets and a working sense of how to question data are non-negotiable.
Cloud and deployment
Hands-on exposure to AWS, GCP or Azure — enough to deploy a service, monitor it, and reason about cost.
Security awareness
How the modern threat landscape works, what a secure system looks like, and where the responsibility sits at each layer of the stack.
Analytics and BI tools
Excel at a serious level, plus modern BI tools like Power BI, Tableau or Looker. Turn raw data into the kind of charts that change decisions.
Modern AI tools
Practical use of AI and language models as part of your workflow — drafting, summarising, prototyping and accelerating routine work.
Business skills you'll build.
Strategy and business judgement
How companies make money, where the unit economics break, and how to spot a market that's about to move.
Finance fundamentals
Reading a P&L, modelling a business case, understanding the language of investment, risk and return.
Product thinking
Identifying the problem worth solving, the user it's for, and the simplest version of a solution that proves the idea.
Collaboration and teamwork
Working in cross-functional teams the way the industry does — engineers, analysts, designers and business folk in the same room.
Communication and pitching
Writing clearly, presenting confidently, and making complicated ideas land with non-specialist audiences.
Project execution
Breaking work into shippable chunks, prioritising ruthlessly, and finishing — the skill most employers say recent graduates lack.
See the full programme structure.
Each LSCT course covers a defined slice of the technical and business stacks. Browse the catalogue to find yours.
