Following is a list of few essential skills required for the Web Content Management Professionals:

1. Java
   
2. Content Management Concepts (Content Life Cycle, Content Approval and Deployment/Publishing Workflows, Content Archival, Usability and Compliance Issues in Content Management, Content Sharing and Reuse)
   
3. XML, XSLT
   
4. .NET
   
5. HTML (XHTML), JavaScript,CSS, HTTP Protocols, TCP/IP
   
6. J2EE - JSP, Servlets, WebServices,JMS,JDBC,EJB,Struts,Hibernate
   
7. Database Technologies - SQL, Oracle, MS SQL Server, MySQL, IBM UDB, Sybase
   
8. Operating Systems - Windows, Unix and Linux
   
9. Application Servers - Weblogic, Websphere, Apache Tomcat, JBoss
   
10. Web Server - Apache, IBM HTTP Server, IIS, Sun Java System Webserver (Sun ONE/iPlanet)
    
11. Directory (LDAP) Servers - MS Active Directory, Sun Java System Directory Server, OpenLDAP, IBM Tivoli Directory Server, Red Hat Directory Server, Apache Directory Server
    
12. Concepts of Web Designing, Web Usability Issues, Web Accessibility Standards