By Paul Richmond – Managing Associate
When sponsoring a employee for a selected position, employers want to know how you can apply for a sponsor licence and that the employee is sponsored for a job in an eligible standard occupational classification (‘SOC’) code listed within the Appendix. The SOC codes could be discovered within the printed Immigration Guidelines Appendix Skilled Occupations and Appendix Shortage Occupation List. On this publish, we are going to check out the UK Scarcity Occupation Listing 2024.
What’s the Scarcity Occupation Listing?
The Scarcity Occupation Listing exhibits a listing of occupations the place there’s a scarcity of expert labour within the UK. The Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) gives suggestions on the roles to be positioned on the Scarcity Occupation Listing. This listing is usually reviewed and up to date.
If the job is on the Scarcity Occupation Listing, the total wage threshold doesn’t must be met. The wage for the job on the Scarcity Occupation Listing should equal or exceed £20,960 per 12 months, £10.75 per hour and 80% of the going charge for the occupation code. The going charge refers back to the minimal wage for a selected occupation code.
If the job is on the Scarcity Occupation Listing, it have to be confirmed within the Certificate of Sponsorship.
The visa utility price for a Skilled Worker Visa is decrease if the job is on the Scarcity Occupation Listing.
Selecting the best SOC code on the Scarcity Occupation Listing
To have a greater understanding of the precise SOC code for the job, employers can consult with the Workplace for Nationwide Statistics web site to take a look on the job descriptions, duties and entry necessities.
It is very important select essentially the most acceptable occupation code to keep away from any delay or refusal of the employee’s visa utility. If the House Workplace has cheap grounds to imagine that the sponsor has not chosen the proper SOC code or the emptiness just isn’t real, this might set off the House Workplace to conduct a sponsor compliance visit on an introduced or unannounced foundation and can also result in a sponsor licence being suspended.
UK Scarcity Occupation Listing 2024
The UK Scarcity Occupation Listing 2024 could be discovered here. The listing exhibits whether or not the scarcity of labour is in England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Eire.
Desk 1 is a listing of scarcity occupations the place 80% of the going charge for the occupation code could also be paid:
Scarcity Occupation Listing Jobs in Well being and Care
- 1181 Well being companies and public well being managers and administrators
- 1242 Residential, day and domiciliary care managers and proprietors
- 6146 Senior care staff
Scarcity Occupation Listing Jobs in Science/ Engineering
- 2111 Chemical scientists within the nuclear business
- 2112 Organic scientists and biochemists
- 2113 Bodily scientists within the construction-related floor engineering business, restricted to
- engineering geologist
- hydrogeologist
- geophysicist
- 2113 Bodily scientists within the oil and fuel business, restricted to
- geophysicist
- geoscientist
- geologist
- geochemist
- technical companies supervisor within the decommissioning and waste areas of the nuclear business
- senior useful resource geologist and workers geologist within the mining sector
- 2114 Social and humanities scientists, restricted to archaeologists
- 2121 Civil engineers
- 2122 Mechanical engineers
- 2123 Electrical engineers
- 2124 Electronics engineers
- 2126 Design and growth engineers
- 2127 Manufacturing and course of engineers
- 2129 Engineering professionals not elsewhere categorized
- 2461 High quality management and planning engineers
Scarcity Occupation Listing Jobs in Development
- 5312 Bricklayers and masons
- 5313 Roofers, roof tilers and slaters
- 5315 Carpenters and joiners
- 5319 Development and constructing trades not elsewhere categorized
- 5321 Plasterers (together with dryliners)
Scarcity Occupation Listing Jobs in IT
- 2135 IT enterprise analysts, architects and programs designers
- 2136 Programmers and software program growth professionals
- 2137 Net design and growth professionals
- 2139 Data know-how and communications professionals not elsewhere categorized, restricted to cyber safety specialists
Scarcity Occupation Listing Jobs in Fishing
- 5119 Agriculture and fishing trades not elsewhere categorized
- 9119 Fishing and different elementary agriculture occupations not elsewhere categorized – solely deckhands on massive fishing vessels (9 metres and above) the place the job requires the employee to have at the least 3 years’ full-time expertise in utilizing their abilities.
Scarcity Occupation Listing Jobs in Skilled Companies/Medication/ Different Trades
- 2216 Veterinarians
- 2425 Actuaries, economists and statisticians, restricted to
- Bio-informaticians
- Informaticians
- 2431 Architects
- 3111 Laboratory technicians
- 5215 Welding trades – solely excessive integrity pipe welders, the place the job requires 3 or extra years’ associated on-the-job expertise. This expertise should not have been gained by means of working illegally.
Scarcity Occupation Listing Jobs in Inventive Sector
- 3411 Artists
- 3414 Dancers and choreographers – solely expert classical ballet dancers or expert modern dancers who meet the usual required by internationally recognised UK ballet or modern dance corporations.The corporate have to be endorsed as being internationally recognised by a UK business physique such because the Arts Councils (of England, Scotland or Wales).
- 3415 Musicians – solely expert orchestral musicians who’re leaders, principals, sub-principals or numbered string positions, and who meet the usual required by internationally recognised UK orchestras.
The orchestra have to be a full member of the Affiliation of British Orchestras.
- 3416 Arts officers, producers and administrators
- 3421 Graphic designers
Desk 2 refers to well being and training occupations the place the going charges are based mostly on nationwide pay scales:
Scarcity Occupation Listing Jobs in Medication
- 2211 Medical practitioners
- 2212 Psychologists
- 2213 Pharmacists
- 2217 Medical radiographers – together with radiotherapy practitioners/ technologists)
- 2219 Well being professionals not elsewhere categorized
- 2232 Nurses
- 3213 Paramedics
- 6141 Nursing auxiliaries and assistants
Scarcity Occupation Listing Jobs in Remedy
- 2221 Physiotherapists
- 2222 Occupational therapists
- 2223 Speech and language therapists
Scarcity Occupation Listing Jobs in Training/ Skilled Companies
- 2314 Secondary training instructing professionals – solely academics in maths, physics, science (the place a component of physics will probably be taught), laptop science and fashionable international languages
- 2314 Secondary training instructing professionals – solely academics in Gaelic
- 2315 Main and nursery training instructing professionals – solely Gaelic medium academics
- 2442 Social staff
The occupation code 6145 Care staff and residential carers has been added to the Scarcity Occupation Listing and associated job titles embrace Care assistant, Care employee, Carer, House care assistant, House carer and Assist employee (nursing dwelling). Nonetheless, non-public households or people (aside from sole merchants sponsoring somebody to work for his or her enterprise) can’t sponsor Expert Employee candidates.
Varieties of Sponsor Licence
To sponsor a employee for a task within the Scarcity Occupation Listing or Appendix Expert Occupations, the employer might want to have a sponsor licence for the related route. Additional particulars on the related sponsor licence could be discovered right here:
Contact Our Immigration Barristers
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