UK Immigration Salary & SOC Hub
The UK Home Office’s latest immigration rule changes come into effect on 22 July 2025, impacting Skilled Worker, Care Worker, Global Business Mobility, and related visa routes. These updates introduce higher salary thresholds and stricter skill level requirements that employers, HR teams, and applicants must navigate carefully.
This page compiles updated salary tables and Standard Occupation Code (SOC) requirements in one place—helping you stay compliant and plan ahead.
📌 Note: Applications submitted or Certificates of Sponsorship assigned before 22 July 2025 will follow the pre-22 July rules.
Updated Skilled Worker Salary Thresholds (Effective 22 July 2025)
Option |
Description |
Pre-22nd July 2025 |
Post-22nd July 2025 |
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A |
Salary |
£38,700 |
£41,700 |
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B |
Salary and relevant PhD qualification |
£34,830 |
£37,500 |
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C |
Salary and relevant STEM PhD qualification |
£30,960 |
£33,400 |
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D |
Salary and a job in an occupation on the Immigration Salary List |
£30,960 |
£33,400 |
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E |
Salary and applicant is a new entrant |
£30,960 |
£33,400 |
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F |
Salary if you were granted permission as a Skilled Worker under the rules in place before 4 April 2024 |
£29,000 |
£31,300 |
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G |
Salary and relevant PhD qualification if you were granted permission as a Skilled Worker under the rules in place before 4 April 2024 |
£26,100 |
£28,200 |
The Temporary Shortage Occupation List
A temporary shortage list has been announced permitting workers in certain SOCs below RQF 6 in an application submitted between 22 July 2025 and 31 December 2026. The SOCs to be included are as follows:
Remember:
- 1243 Managers in logistics
- 1258 Directors in consultancy services
- 3111 Laboratory technicians
- 3112 Electrical and electronics technicians
- 3113 Engineering technicians
- 3114 Building and civil engineering technicians
- 3115 Quality assurance technicians
- 3116 Planning, process and production technicians
- 3120 CAD, drawing and architectural technicians
- 3131 IT operations technicians
- 3132 IT user support technicians
- 3133 Database administrators and web content technicians
- 3412 Authors, writers and translators
- 3414 Dancers and choreographers
- 3417 Photographers, audio-visual and broadcasting equipment operators
- 3422 Clothing, fashion and accessories designers
- 3429 Design occupations not elsewhere classified – only the following job types:
- Industrial and product designers
- Packaging designers
- Performance make-up artists
- Set designers
- Visual merchandising managers and designers
- 3512 Ship and hovercraft officers
- 3520 Legal associate professionals
- 3532 Insurance underwriters
- 3533 Financial and accounting technicians
- 3541 Estimators, valuers and assessors
- 3544 Data analysts
- 3549 Business associate professionals not elsewhere classified – only the following job types:
- Business support officers
- Business systems analysts
- Contract administrators
- Clinical coders
- Clinical trials administrators
- Research coordinators
- 3552 Business sales executives
- 3554 Advertising and marketing associate professionals
- 3571 Human resources and industrial relations officers
- 3573 Information technology trainers
- 4121 Credit controllers
- 4122 Book-keepers, payroll managers and wages clerks
- 4129 Financial administrative occupations not elsewhere classified – only the following job types:
- Box office assistants
- Grants officers
- Mortgage administrators
- Revenue assistants (excludes National and Local government revenue occupations)
- Treasury assistants
- 4132 Pensions and insurance clerks and assistants
- 5213 Welding trades
- 5214 Pipe fitters
- 5223 Metal working production and maintenance fitters
- 5225 Air-conditioning and refrigeration installers and repairers
- 5231 Vehicle technicians, mechanics and electricians
- 5232 Vehicle body builders and repairers
- 5233 Vehicle paint technicians
- 5235 Boat and ship builders and repairers
- 5241 Electricians and electrical fitters
- 5242 Telecoms and related network installers and repairers
- 5244 Computer system and equipment installers and servicers
- 5245 Security system installers and repairers
- 5249 Electrical and electronic trades not elsewhere classified
- 5311 Steel erectors
- 5315 Plumbers and heating and ventilating installers and repairers
- 5319 Construction and building trades not elsewhere classified – only the following job types:
- Builders
- Divers
- Fence erectors
- Industrial climbers
- Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) operators
- Steel fixers and underpinners
- 5322 Floorers and wall tilers
- 5323 Painters and decorators
- 5330 Construction and building
Table 1: Eligible SOC 2020 occupation codes and related going rates based on median Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) data
SOC 2020 occupation code |
Examples of related job titles (non-exclusive) | Going rate (SW – options A and D) | 90% of going rate (SW – option B) |
80% of going rate (SW – option C) |
70% of going rate (SW – option E) | Eligible for PhD points (SW)? |
1111 Chief executives and senior officials | • Chairpersons • Chief executives • Diplomats and foreign office officials • Senior public service officials • Chief executives and senior officials not elsewhere classified |
£88,100 (£45.18 per hour) |
£79,300 (£40.67 per hour) |
£70,400 (£36.10 per hour) |
£61,600 (£31.59 per hour) |
Yes |
1121 Production managers and directors in manufacturing | • Production managers and directors in manufacturing |
£55,000 (£28.21 per hour) |
£49,500 (£25.38 per hour) |
£44,000 (£22.56 per hour) |
£38,500 (£19.74 per hour) |
Yes |
1122 Production managers and directors in construction |
• Production managers and directors in construction |
£53,400 (£27.38 per hour) |
£48,100 (£24.67 per hour) |
£42,700 (£21.90 per hour) |
£37,400 (£19.18 per hour) |
Yes |
1123 Production managers and directors in mining and energy | • Managers and directors in the extraction of fossil fuels • Managers and directors in the production of energy • Production managers and directors in mining and energy not elsewhere classified |
£54,000 (£27.69 per hour) |
£48,600 (£24.92 per hour) |
£43,200 (£22.15 per hour) |
£37,800 (£19.38 per hour) |
Yes |
1131 Financial managers and directors | • Bank, building society and post office managers • Company secretaries and finance managers and directors • Investment bankers and directors • Financial managers and directors not elsewhere classified |
£75,100 (£38.51 per hour) |
£67,600 (£34.67 per hour) |
£60,100 (£30.82 per hour) |
£52,600 (£26.97 per hour) |
Yes |
1132 Marketing, sales and advertising directors | • Advertising and marketing directors • Sales directors • Marketing, sales and advertising directors not elsewhere classified |
£87,300 (£44.77 per hour) |
£78,600 (£40.31 per hour) |
£69,800 (£35.79 per hour) |
£61,100 (£31.33 per hour) |
Yes |
1133 Public relations and communications directors | • Public relations and communications directors |
£77,200 (£39.59 per hour) |
£69,500 (£35.64 per hour) |
£61,700 (£31.64 per hour) |
£54,000 (£27.69 per hour) |
Yes |
1134 Purchasing managers and directors | • Estimating managers and directors • Procurement and purchasing managers and directors • Purchasing managers and directors not elsewhere classified |
£54,700 (£28.05 per hour) |
£49,300 (£25.28 per hour) |
£43,800 (£22.46 per hour) |
£38,300 (£19.64 per hour) |
Yes |
1135 Charitable organisation managers and directors | • Charitable organisation managers and directors |
£44,300 (£22.72 per hour) |
£39,900 (£20.46 per hour) |
£35,500 (£18.21 per hour) |
£33,400 (£17.13 per hour) |
Yes |
1136 Human resource managers and directors | • Employee relations managers • Equality, diversity and inclusion managers • Learning and development managers and directors • Recruitment managers and directors • Human resources managers and directors not elsewhere classified |
£52,900 (£27.13 per hour) |
£47,600 (£24.41 per hour) |
£42,300 (£21.69 per hour) |
£37,100 (£19.03 per hour) |
Yes |
1137 Information technology directors | • Information security directors • Information technology operations directors • Information technology programme managers and directors • Information technology technical directors • Information technology directors not elsewhere classified |
£86,000 (£44.10 per hour) |
£77,400 (£39.69 per hour) |
£68,800 (£35.28 per hour) |
£60,200 (£30.87 per hour) |
Yes |
1139 Functional managers and directors not elsewhere classified | • Accounts directors • Administration directors • Complaints and customer service directors • Events directors • Intellectual property managers and directors • Municipal clerks • Research and development (R&D) directors • Functional managers and directors not elsewhere classified |
£74,700 (£38.31 per hour) |
£67,200 (£34.46 per hour) |
£59,700 (£30.62 per hour) |
£52,300 (£26.82 per hour) |
Yes |
1140 Directors in logistics, warehousing and transport | • Supply chain directors • Directors in logistics, warehousing and transport not elsewhere classified |
£81,400 (£41.74 per hour) | £73,300 (£37.59 per hour) |
£65,100 (£33.38 per hour)) |
£57,000 (£29.23 per hour) | Yes |
1162 Senior police officers | • Chief, deputy chief and assistant chief constables • Chief inspectors • Chief superintendents • Senior police officers not elsewhere classified |
£64,000 (£32.82 per hour) |
£57,600 (£29.54 per hour) |
£51,200 (£26.26 per hour) |
£44,800 (£22.97 per hour) |
Yes |
1163 Senior officers in fire, ambulance, prison and related services | • Senior officers in ambulance services • Senior officers in fire services • Senior officers in immigration services • Senior officers in prison services • Senior officers in revenue and customs |
£61,600 (£31.59 per hour) |
£55,400 (£28.41 per hour) |
£49,200 (£25.23 per hour) |
£43,100 (£22.10 per hour) |
Yes |
1171 Health services and public health managers and directors | • Clinical governance and information managers • Healthcare service managers and directors • Health services and public health managers and directors not elsewhere classified |
£50,300 (£25.79 per hour) |
£45,300 (£23.23 per hour) |
£40,300 (£20.67 per hour) |
£35,200 (£18.05 per hour) |
Yes |
1172 Social services managers and directors | • Social services managers and directors |
£43,000 (£22.05 per hour) |
£38,700 (£19.85 per hour) |
£34,400 (£17.64 per hour) |
£33,400 (£17.13 per hour) |
Yes |
1241 Managers in transport and distribution | • Airport managers • Depot and fleet managers • Dispatch and distribution managers • Harbour and port managers • Road traffic managers • Managers in transport and distribution not elsewhere classified |
£44,900 (£23.03 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £33,400 (£17.13 per hour) |
No |
1254 Waste disposal and environmental services managers | • Landfill site managers • Recycling managers • Scrap yard managers • Sewage works and water treatment managers • Waste disposal and environmental services managers not elsewhere classified |
£48,300 (£24.77 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £33,800 (£17.33 per hour) |
No |
1255 Managers and directors in the creative industries | • Art gallery managers and directors • Film and television production managers • Publishing managers and directors • Radio production managers • Sport and talent agents • Theatre production managers • Managers and directors in the creative industries not elsewhere classified |
£44,900 (£23.03 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £33,400 (£17.13 per hour) |
No |
2111 Chemical scientists | • Analytical chemists • Industrial chemists • Nuclear and radiochemists • Research and development chemists • Chemical scientists not elsewhere classified |
£39,900 (£20.46 per hour) |
£35,900 (£18.41 per hour) |
£33,400 (£17.13 per hour) |
£33,400 (£17.13 per hour) |
Yes |
2112 Biological scientists | • Agricultural scientists • Biologists • Botanical and horticultural scientists • Microbiologists and bacteriologists • Pathologists • Pharmacologists • Zoological scientists • Biological scientists not elsewhere classified |
£40,300 (£20.67 per hour) |
£36,300 (£18.62 per hour) |
£33,400 (£17.13 per hour) |
£33,400 (£17.13 per hour) |
Yes |
2113 Biochemists and biomedical scientists | • Biochemists • Biomedical scientists • Biotechnologists • Clinical scientists • Biochemists and biomedical scientists not elsewhere classified |
£45,900 (£23.54 per hour) |
£41,300 (£21.18 per hour) |
£36,700 (£18.82 per hour) |
£33,400 (£17.13 per hour) |
Yes |
2114 Physical scientists | • Geologists • Geophysicists • Hydrogeologists and hydrologists • Meteorologists • Physical scientists not elsewhere classified |
£54,600 (£28.00 per hour) |
£49,100 (£25.18 per hour) |
£43,600 (£22.36 per hour) |
£38,200 (£19.59 per hour) |
Yes |
2115 Social and humanities scientists | • Anthropologists • Archaeologists • Behavioural scientists • Epidemiologists • Genealogists • Geographic information systems (GIS) analysts • Historians • Political scientists • Public health analysts • Social and humanities scientists not elsewhere classified |
£40,400 (£20.72 per hour) |
£36,400 (£18.67 per hour) |
£33,400 (£17.13 per hour) |
£33,400 (£17.13 per hour) |
Yes |
2119 Natural and social science professionals not elsewhere classified Note: For Skilled Worker purposes, SOC 2020 occupation code 2119 includes researchers in research organisations other than universities. |
• Sports scientists • Natural and social science professionals not elsewhere classified |
£41,500 (£21.28 per hour) |
£37,300 (£19.13 per hour) |
£33,400 (£17.13 per hour) |
£33,400 (£17.13 per hour) |
Yes |
2121 Civil engineers | • Building and building services engineers • Geotechnical engineers • Mining engineers • Structural engineers • Transportation engineers • Water engineers (professional) • Civil engineers not elsewhere classified |
£50,400 (£25.85 per hour) |
£45,300 (£23.23 per hour) |
£40,300 (£20.67 per hour) |
£35,200 (£18.05 per hour) |
Yes |
2122 Mechanical engineers | • Automotive engineers (professional) • Marine engineers and naval architects • Mechanical design engineers • Mechanical engineers not elsewhere classified |
£46,800 (£24.00 per hour) |
£42,100 (£21.59 per hour) |
£37,400 (£19.18 per hour) |
£33,400 (£17.13 per hour) |
Yes |
2123 Electrical engineers | • Laser engineers • Power systems engineers • Railway signalling engineers • Electrical engineers not elsewhere classified |
£58,700 (£30.10 per hour) |
£52,900 (£27.13 per hour) |
£47,000 (£24.10 per hour) |
£41,100 (£21.08 per hour) |
Yes |
2124 Electronics engineers | • Broadcast engineers (professional) • Telecommunications engineers (professional) • Electronics engineers not elsewhere classified |
£52,000 (£26.67 per hour) |
£46,800 (£24.00 per hour) |
£41,600 (£21.33 per hour) |
£36,400 (£18.67 per hour) |
Yes |
2125 Production and process engineers | • Chemical engineers • Control and instrumentation engineers • Industrial and production engineers • Production and process engineers not elsewhere classified |
£45,000 (£23.08 per hour) |
£40,500 (£20.77 per hour) |
£36,000 (£18.46 per hour) |
£33,400 (£17.13 per hour) |
Yes |
2126 Aerospace engineers | • Aeronautical engineers (professional) • Aircraft engineers (professional) • Avionics engineers • Aerospace engineers not elsewhere classified |
£52,400 (£26.87 per hour) |
£47,200 (£24.21 per hour) |
£41,900 (£21.49 per hour) |
£36,700 (£18.82 per hour) |
Yes |
2127 Engineering project managers and project engineers | • Engineering project managers and project engineers |
£51,900 (£26.62 per hour) |
£46,700 (£23.95 per hour) |
£41,500 (£21.28 per hour) |
£36,300 (£18.62 per hour) |
Yes |
2129 Engineering professionals not elsewhere classified | • Acoustic engineers • Biomedical engineers • Brewers (qualified) • Clinical Engineers • Energy engineers • Food technologists • Gas engineers (professional) • Heating and ventilating engineers (professional) • Materials engineers • Mechatronic engineers • Nuclear engineers • Patent engineers • Robotics engineers • Traffic engineers • Engineering professionals not elsewhere classified |
£46,100 (£23.64 per hour) |
£41,500 (£21.28 per hour) |
£36,900 (£18.92 per hour) |
£33,400 (£17.13 per hour) |
Yes |
2131 IT project managers | • IT project managers | £58,200 (£29.85 per hour) |
£52,400 (£26.87 per hour) |
£46,600 (£23.90 per hour) |
£40,700 (£20.87 per hour) |
Yes |
2132 IT managers | • IT information managers • IT product managers • IT service delivery managers • IT systems managers • IT test managers • Network managers • Software development managers • Technical support managers • IT managers not elsewhere classified |
£55,000 (£28.21 per hour) |
£49,500 (£25.38 per hour) |
£44,000 (£22.56 per hour) |
£38,500 (£19.74 per hour) |
Yes |
2133 IT business analysts, architects and systems designers | • Computer analysts and scientists • Data architects • Data engineers • IT systems architects • IT business analysts • IT solutions architects and designers • IT business analysts, architects and systems designers not elsewhere classified |
£54,900 (£28.15 per hour) |
£49,400 (£25.33 per hour) |
£43,900 (£22.51 per hour) |
£38,400 (£19.69 per hour) |
Yes |
2134 Programmers and software development professionals | • Computer games designers • Computer programmers • Software developers • Programmers and software development professionals not elsewhere classified |
£54,700 (£28.05 per hour) |
£49,200 (£25.23 per hour) |
£43,700 (£22.41 per hour) |
£38,300 (£19.64 per hour) |
Yes |
2135 Cyber security professionals | • Cyber operational defence specialists • Cyber security management and governance specialists • Forensic computer specialists • Secure system development specialists • Cyber security professionals not elsewhere classified |
£48,500 (£24.87 per hour) |
£43,700 (£22.41 per hour) |
£38,800 (£19.90 per hour) |
£34,000 (£17.44 per hour) |
Yes |
2136 IT quality and testing professionals | • IT quality and testing professionals |
£41,200 (£21.13 per hour) |
£37,100 (£19.03 per hour) |
£33,400 (£17.13 per hour) |
£33,400 (£17.13 per hour) |
Yes |
2137 IT network professionals | • IT network professionals | £45,600 (£23.38 per hour) |
£41,100 (£21.08 per hour) |
£36,500 (£18.72 per hour) |
£33,400 (£17.13 per hour) |
Yes |
2139 Information technology professionals not elsewhere classified | • DevOps engineers • IT consultants • Webmasters and website managers • Information technology professionals not elsewhere classified |
£52,300 (£26.82 per hour) |
£47,100 (£24.15 per hour) |
£41,800 (£21.44 per hour) |
£36,600 (£18.77 per hour) |
Yes |
2141 Web design professionals | • Application designers • UI and UX designers and researchers • Web designers • Web design professionals not elsewhere classified |
£43,800 (£22.46 per hour) |
£39,400 (£20.21 per hour) |
£35,100 (£18.00 per hour) |
£33,400 (£17.13 per hour) |
Yes |
2142 Graphic and multimedia designers | • Multimedia animators • Graphic and multimedia designers not elsewhere classified |
£33,400 (£17.13 per hour) |
£33,400 (£17.13 per hour) |
£33,400 (£17.13 per hour) |
£33,400 (£17.13 per hour) |
Yes |
2151 Conservation professionals | • Conservationists • Ecologists • Heritage officers • Conservation professionals not elsewhere classified |
£36,000 (£18.46 per hour) |
£33,400 (£17.13 per hour) |
£33,400 (£17.13 per hour) |
£33,400 (£17.13 per hour) |
Yes |
2152 Environment professionals | • Energy managers • Environmental and geo- environmental engineers • Environmental consultants • Environmental scientists • Sustainability officers • Environmental professionals not elsewhere classified |
£37,200 (£19.08 per hour) |
£33,500 (£17.18 per hour) |
£33,400 (£17.13 per hour) |
£33,400 (£17.13 per hour) |
Yes |
2161 Research and development (R&D) managers | • Laboratory managers • Research and development (R&D) design managers • Research and development (R&D) managers not elsewhere classified |
£54,400 (£27.90 per hour) |
£48,900 (£25.08 per hour) |
£43,500 (£22.31 per hour) |
£38,100 (£19.54 per hour) |
Yes |
2162 Other researchers, unspecified discipline | • Other researchers, unspecified discipline |
£43,600 (£22.36 per hour) |
£39,200 (£20.10 per hour) |
£34,900 (£17.90 per hour) |
£33,400 (£17.13 per hour) |
Yes |
2240 Veterinarians | • Veterinarians | £49,500 (£25.38 per hour) |
£44,500 (£22.82 per hour) |
£39,600 (£20.31 per hour) |
£34,600 (£17.74 per hour) |
Yes |
2311 Higher education teaching professionals | • Higher education teaching professionals |
£52,600 (£26.97 per hour) |
£47,300 (£24.26 per hour) |
£42,100 (£21.59 per hour) |
£36,800 (£18.87 per hour) |
Yes |
2317 Teachers of English as a foreign language |
• Teachers of English as a Foreign Language |
£36,200 (£18.56 per hour) |
£33,400 (£17.13 per hour) |
£33,400 (£17.13 per hour) |
£33,400 (£17.13 per hour) |
Yes |
2319 Teaching professionals not elsewhere classified | • Adult education tutors • Dance and drama school principals and owners • Private music and singing teachers • Private tutors • Teaching professionals not elsewhere classified |
£33,400 (£17.13 per hour) |
£33,400 (£17.13 per hour) |
£33,400 (£17.13 per hour) |
£33,400 (£17.13 per hour) |
Yes |
2322 Education managers | • Education managers | £43,900 (£22.51 per hour) |
£39,500 (£20.26 per hour) |
£35,100 (£18.00 per hour) |
£33,400 (£17.13 per hour) |
Yes |
2323 Education advisers and school inspectors | • Educational advisers • School inspectors |
£42,200 (£21.64 per hour) |
£37,900 (£19.44 per hour) |
£33,700 (£17.28 per hour) |
£33,400 (£17.13 per hour) |
Yes |
2329 Other educational professionals not elsewhere classified | • Bursars • Educational administrators • Examiners and markers • Other educational professionals not elsewhere classified |
£40,600 (£20.82 per hour) |
£36,600 (£18.77 per hour) |
£33,400 (£17.13 per hour) |
£33,400 (£17.13 per hour) |
Yes |
2411 Barristers and judges | • Barristers and advocates • Judges • Barristers and judges not elsewhere classified |
£59,400 (£30.46 per hour) |
£53,500 (£27.44 per hour) |
£47,500 (£24.36 per hour) |
£41,600 (£21.33 per hour) |
Yes |
2412 Solicitors and lawyers | • Commercial solicitors and lawyers • Criminal solicitors and lawyers • Family solicitors and lawyers • Property solicitors and lawyers • Solicitors and lawyers not elsewhere classified |
£51,600 (£26.46 per hour) |
£46,500 (£23.85 per hour) |
£41,300 (£21.18 per hour) |
£36,100 (£18.51 per hour) |
Yes |
2419 Legal professionals not elsewhere classified | • Conveyancers • Litigation executives • Paralegals • Patent and trademark attorneys • Legal professionals not elsewhere classified |
£33,400 (£17.13 per hour) |
£33,400 (£17.13 per hour) |
£33,400 (£17.13 per hour) |
£33,400 (£17.13 per hour) |
Yes |
2421 Chartered and certified accountants | • Auditors (qualified accountant) • Financial accountants (qualified) • Forensic accountants • Fund accountants • Insolvency practitioners • Chartered and certified accountants not elsewhere classified |
£49,200 (£25.23 per hour) |
£44,300 (£22.72 per hour) |
£39,400 (£20.21 per hour) |
£34,500 (£17.69 per hour) |
Yes |
2422 Finance and investment analysts and advisers | • Credit analysts • Financial advisers and planners • Financial analysts • Mortgage advisers • Finance and investment analysts and advisers not elsewhere classified |
£45,800 (£23.49 per hour) |
£41,200 (£21.13 per hour) |
£36,700 (£18.82 per hour) |
£33,400 (£17.13 per hour) |
Yes |
2423 Taxation experts | • Taxation experts | £48,500 (£24.87 per hour) |
£43,700 (£22.41 per hour) |
£38,800 (£19.90 per hour) |
£34,000 (£17.44 per hour) |
Yes |
2431 Management consultants and business analysts | • Business analysts and consultants • Management advisers and consultants • Risk analysts • Management consultants and business analysts not elsewhere classified |
£50,200 (£25.74 per hour) |
£45,200 (£23.18 per hour) |
£40,200 (£20.62 per hour) |
£35,100 (£18.00 per hour) |
Yes |
2432 Marketing and commercial managers | • Commercial managers • Marketing managers • Marketing and commercial managers not elsewhere classified |
£50,100 (£25.69 per hour) |
£45,100 (£23.13 per hour) |
£40,000 (£20.51 per hour) |
£35,000 (£17.95 per hour) |
Yes |
2433 Actuaries, economists and statisticians | • Actuaries and actuarial analysts • Economists • Mathematicians • Statistical data scientists • Statisticians • Actuaries, economists and statisticians not elsewhere classified |
£55,100 (£28.26 per hour) |
£49,600 (£25.44 per hour) |
£44,100 (£22.62 per hour) |
£38,600 (£19.79 per hour) |
Yes |
2434 Business and related research professionals | • Intelligence analysts • Researchers in media and entertainment • Business and related research professionals not elsewhere classified |
£38,800 (£19.90 per hour) |
£35,000 (£17.95 per hour) |
£33,400 (£17.13 per hour) |
£33,400 (£17.13 per hour) |
Yes |
2435 Professional/chartered company secretaries |
• Professional/chartered company secretaries |
£58,200 (£29.85 per hour) |
£52,300 (£26.82 per hour) |
£46,500 (£23.85 per hour) |
£40,700 (£20.87 per hour) |
Yes |
2439 Business, research and administrative professionals not elsewhere classified | • Policy officers • Business, research and administrative professionals not elsewhere classified |
£56,600 (£29.03 per hour) |
£50,900 (£26.10 per hour) |
£45,300 (£23.23 per hour) |
£39,600 (£20.31 per hour) |
Yes |
2440 Business and financial project management professionals | • Business change managers • Clinical trials coordinators • Risk managers • Business and financial project management professionals not elsewhere classified |
£56,500 (£28.97 per hour) |
£50,800 (£26.05 per hour) |
£45,200 (£23.18 per hour) |
£39,500 (£20.26 per hour) |
Yes |
2451 Architects | • Architects • Landscape architects and designers |
£47,600 (£24.41 per hour) |
£42,800 (£21.95 per hour) |
£38,100 (£19.54 per hour) |
£33,400 (£17.13 per hour) |
Yes |
2452 Chartered architectural technologists, planning officers and consultants | • Chartered architectural technologists • Town planning officers • Urban designers • Chartered architectural technologists, planning officers and consultants not elsewhere classified |
£35,800 (£18.36 per hour) |
£33,400 (£17.13 per hour) |
£33,400 (£17.13 per hour) |
£33,400 (£17.13 per hour) |
Yes |
2453 Quantity surveyors | • Quantity surveyors | £48,600 (£24.92 per hour) |
£43,800 (£22.46 per hour) |
£38,900 (£19.95 per hour) |
£34,100 (£17.49 per hour) |
Yes |
2454 Chartered surveyors | • Building control surveyors • Hydrographic surveyors • Land surveyors • Property surveyors • Chartered surveyors not elsewhere classified |
£43,800 (£22.46 per hour) |
£39,400 (£20.21 per hour) |
£35,000 (£17.95 per hour) |
£33,400 (£17.13 per hour) |
Yes |
2455 Construction project managers and related professionals | • Construction project and contract managers • Transport planners • Construction project managers and related professionals not elsewhere classified |
£44,300 (£22.72 per hour) |
£39,900 (£20.46 per hour) |
£35,400 (£18.15 per hour) |
£33,400 (£17.13 per hour) |
Yes |
2462 Probation officers | • Probation officers | £35,700 (£18.31 per hour) |
£33,400 (£17.13 per hour) |
£33,400 (£17.13 per hour) |
£33,400 (£17.13 per hour) |
Yes |
2464 Youth work professionals | • Youth work professionals | £38,000 (£19.49 per hour) |
£34,200 (£17.54 per hour) |
£33,400 (£17.13 per hour) |
£33,400 (£17.13 per hour) |
Yes |
2469 Welfare professionals not elsewhere classified | • Adoption officers • Children and family services professionals • Mediators and restorative practice professionals • Welfare professionals not elsewhere classified |
£39,700 (£20.36 per hour) |
£35,700 (£18.31 per hour) |
£33,400 (£17.13 per hour) |
£33,400 (£17.13 per hour) |
Yes |
2471 Librarians | • Librarians | £34,800 (£17.85 per hour) |
£33,400 (£17.13 per hour) |
£33,400 (£17.13 per hour) |
£33,400 (£17.13 per hour) |
Yes |
2472 Archivists, conservators and curators | • Archivists • Collection managers and curators • Conservators • Museum education officers • Archivists and curators not elsewhere classified |
£33,400 (£17.13 per hour) |
£33,400 (£17.13 per hour) |
£33,400 (£17.13 per hour) |
£33,400 (£17.13 per hour) |
Yes |
2481 Quality control and planning engineers | • Garment technologists • Planning engineers • Quality control engineers • Quality control and planning engineers not elsewhere classified |
£41,300 (£21.18 per hour) |
£37,100 (£19.03 per hour) |
£33,400 (£17.13 per hour) |
£33,400 (£17.13 per hour) |
Yes |
2482 Quality assurance and regulatory professionals | • Compliance and regulatory professionals • Quality assurance professionals |
£48,200 (£24.72 per hour) |
£43,400 (£22.26 per hour) |
£38,600 (£19.79 per hour) |
£33,800 (£17.33 per hour) |
Yes |
2483 Environmental health professionals | • Environmental health professionals |
£40,900 (£20.97 per hour) |
£36,800 (£18.87 per hour) |
£33,400 (£17.13 per hour) |
£33,400 (£17.13 per hour) |
Yes |
2491 Newspaper, periodical and broadcast editors | • Newspaper, periodical and broadcast editors |
£39,600 (£20.31 per hour) |
£35,600 (£18.26 per hour) |
£33,400 (£17.13 per hour) |
£33,400 (£17.13 per hour) |
Yes |
2492 Newspaper and periodical broadcast journalists and reporters | • Broadcast journalists • Newspaper journalists and reporters • Newspaper and periodical journalists and reporters not elsewhere classified |
£34,000 (£17.44 per hour) |
£33,400 (£17.13 per hour) |
£33,400 (£17.13 per hour) |
£33,400 (£17.13 per hour) |
Yes |
2493 Public relations professionals | • Press officers • Public relations officers • Social media managers • Public relations professionals not elsewhere classified |
£37,000 (£18.97 per hour) |
£33,400 (£17.13 per hour) |
£33,400 (£17.13 per hour) |
£33,400 (£17.13 per hour) |
Yes |
2494 Advertising accounts managers and creative directors | • Advertising account managers • Creative directors • Fundraising managers |
£46,000 (£23.59 per hour) |
£41,400 (£21.23 per hour) |
£36,800 (£18.87 per hour) |
£33,400 (£17.13 per hour) |
Yes |
3415 Musicians | • Composers and musical arrangers • Music conductors • Instrumentalists • Musicians not elsewhere classified |
£37,500 (£19.23 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £33,400 (£17.13 per hour) |
No |
3416 Arts officers, producers and directors | • Art consultants • Broadcasting and entertainment directors • Broadcasting and entertainment editors • Broadcasting and entertainment producers • Studio and stage managers • Arts officers, producers and directors not elsewhere classified |
£38,100 (£19.54 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £33,400 (£17.13 per hour) |
No |
3511 Aircraft pilots and air traffic controllers | • Airline pilots • Air traffic controllers • Flying instructors • Helicopter pilots • Aircraft pilots and air traffic controllers not elsewhere classified |
£80,400 (£41.23 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £56,300 (£28.87 per hour) |
No |
3531 Brokers | • Commodity brokers and traders • Insurance and mortgage brokers • Shipbrokers • Stockbrokers • Brokers not elsewhere classified |
£52,400 (£26.87 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £36,700 (£18.82 per hour) |
No |
3534 Financial accounts managers | • Claims managers • Credit managers • Investment managers • Relationship managers • Financial accounts managers not elsewhere classified |
£44,700 (£22.92 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £33,400 (£17.13 per hour) |
No |
3556 Sales accounts and business development managers | • Brand managers • Business development managers • Sales account managers • Sales accounts and business development managers not elsewhere classified |
£55,200 (£28.31 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £38,600 (£19.79 per hour) |
No |
Table 2: Eligible SOC 2020 occupation codes and related going rates based on 25th percentile Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) data
SOC 2020 occupation code |
Equivalent SOC 2010 occupation code(s) |
Examples of related job titles (non- exclusive) | Going rate (SW – options F and I, GBM and SCU) |
90% of going rate (SW – option G) |
80% of going rate (SW – option H) |
70% of going rate (SW – option J, GTR) | Eligible for PhD points (SW)? |
1111 Chief executives and senior officials | 1115, 1172 | • Chairpersons • Chief executives • Diplomats and foreign office officials • Senior public service officials • Chief executives and senior officials not elsewhere classified |
£60,000 (£30.77 per hour) |
£54,000 (£27.69 per hour) |
£48,000 (£24.62 per hour) |
£42,000 (£21.54 per hour) |
Yes |
1121 Production managers and directors in manufacturing | 1121 | • Production managers and directors in manufacturing | £40,000 (£20.51 per hour) |
£36,000 (£18.46 per hour) |
£32,000 (£16.41 per hour) |
£28,000 (£14.36 per hour) |
Yes |
1122 Production managers and directors in construction | 1122 | • Production managers and directors in construction | £41,400 (£21.23 per hour) |
£37,200 (£19.08 per hour) |
£33,100 (£16.97 per hour) |
£29,000 (£14.87 per hour) |
Yes |
1123 Production managers and directors in mining and energy | 1123 | • Managers and directors in the extraction of fossil fuels • Managers and directors in the production of energy • Production managers and directors in mining and energy not elsewhere classified |
£47,100 (£24.15 per hour) |
£42,400 (£21.74 per hour) |
£37,700 (£19.33 per hour) |
£33,000 (£16.92 per hour) |
Yes |
1131 Financial managers and directors | 1131, 1150 | • Bank, building society and post office managers • Company secretaries and finance managers and directors • Investment bankers and directors • Financial managers and directors not elsewhere classified |
£49,700 (£25.49 per hour) |
£44,700 (£22.92 per hour) |
£39,700 (£20.36 per hour) |
£34,800 (£17.85 per hour) |
Yes |
1132 Marketing, sales and advertising directors | 1132, 1134 | • Advertising and marketing directors • Sales directors • Marketing, sales and advertising directors not elsewhere classified |
£60,000 (£30.77 per hour) |
£54,000 (£27.69 per hour) |
£48,000 (£24.62 per hour) |
£42,000 (£21.54 per hour) |
Yes |
1133 Public relations and communications directors | 1132, 1134 | • Public relations and communications directors | £59,700 (£30.62 per hour) |
£53,800 (£27.59 per hour) |
£47,800 (£24.51 per hour) |
£41,800 (£21.44 per hour) |
Yes |
1134 Purchasing managers and directors | 1133 | • Estimating managers and directors • Procurement and purchasing managers and directors • Purchasing managers and directors not elsewhere classified |
£42,500 (£21.79 per hour) |
£38,300 (£19.64 per hour) |
£34,000 (£17.44 per hour) |
£29,800 (£15.28 per hour) |
Yes |
1135 Charitable organisation managers and directors | 1139, 1184 | • Charitable organisation managers and directors | £35,900 (£18.41 per hour) |
£32,300 (£16.56 per hour) |
£28,700 (£14.72 per hour) |
£25,100 (£12.87 per hour) |
Yes |
1136 Human resource managers and directors | 1135 | • Employee relations managers • Equality, diversity and inclusion managers • Learning and development managers and directors • Recruitment managers and directors • Human resources managers and directors not elsewhere classified |
£41,200 (£21.13 per hour) |
£37,100 (£19.03 per hour) |
£32,900 (£16.87 per hour) |
£28,800 (£14.77 per hour) |
Yes |
1137 Information technology directors | 1136, 2134, 3561 |
• Information security directors • Information technology operations directors • Information technology programme managers and directors • Information technology technical directors • Information technology directors not elsewhere classified |
£61,200 (£31.38 per hour) |
£55,000 (£28.21 per hour) |
£48,900 (£25.08 per hour) |
£42,800 (£21.95 per hour) |
Yes |
1139 Functional managers and directors not elsewhere classified | 1139, 1223, 2424 |
• Accounts directors • Administration directors • Complaints and customer service directors • Events directors • Intellectual property managers and directors • Municipal clerks • Research and development (R&D) directors • Functional managers and directors not elsewhere classified |
£52,300 (£26.82 per hour) |
£47,100 (£24.15 per hour) |
£41,800 (£21.44 per hour) |
£36,600 (£18.77 per hour) |
Yes |
1140 Directors in logistics, warehousing and transport | 1133, 1161, 1162 |
• Supply chain directors • Directors in logistics, warehousing and transport not elsewhere classified |
£53,600 (£27.49 per hour) |
£48,200 (£24.72 per hour) |
£42,900 (£22.00 per hour) |
£37,500 (£19.23 per hour) |
Yes |
1162 Senior police officers | 1172 | • Chief, deputy chief and assistant chief constables • Chief inspectors • Chief superintendents • Senior police officers not elsewhere classified |
£60,800 (£31.18 per hour) |
£54,700 (£28.05 per hour) |
£48,700 (£24.97 per hour) |
£42,600 (£21.85 per hour) |
Yes |
1163 Senior officers in fire, ambulance, prison and related services |
1173 | • Senior officers in ambulance services • Senior officers in fire services • Senior officers in immigration services • Senior officers in prison services • Senior officers in revenue and customs |
£50,000 (£25.64 per hour) |
£45,000 (£23.08 per hour) |
£40,000 (£20.51 per hour) |
£35,000 (£17.95 per hour) |
Yes |
1171 Health services and public health managers and directors | 1181 | • Clinical governance and information managers • Healthcare service managers and directors • Health services and public health managers and directors not elsewhere classified |
£41,600 (£21.33 per hour) |
£37,400 (£19.18 per hour) |
£33,300 (£17.08 per hour) |
£29,100 (£14.92 per hour) |
Yes |
1172 Social services managers and directors | 1184, 1242 | • Social services managers and directors |
£33,100 (£16.97 per hour) |
£29,800 (£15.28 per hour) |
£26,500 (£13.59 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
Yes |
1241 Managers in transport and distribution | 1139, 1150, 1161, 1162, 4161 |
• Airport managers • Depot and fleet managers • Dispatch and distribution managers • Harbour and port managers • Road traffic managers • Managers in transport and distribution not elsewhere classified |
£35,200 (£18.05 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
1254 Waste disposal and environmental services managers | 1255 | • Landfill site managers • Recycling managers • Scrap yard managers • Sewage works and water treatment managers • Waste disposal and environmental services managers not elsewhere classified |
£39,700 (£20.36 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £27,800 (£14.26 per hour) |
No |
1255 Managers and directors in the creative industries | 1121, 1134, 1139, 1225, 1259, 2435, 3416 |
• Art gallery managers and directors • Film and television production managers • Publishing managers and directors • Radio production managers • Sport and talent agents • Theatre production managers • Managers and directors in the creative industries not elsewhere classified |
£37,000 (£18.97 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,900 (£13.28 per hour) |
No |
2111 Chemical scientists | 2111, 3111 | • Analytical chemists • Industrial chemists • Nuclear and radiochemists • Research and development chemists • Chemical scientists not elsewhere classified |
£31,300 (£16.05 per hour) |
£28,200 (£14.46 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
Yes |
2112 Biological scientists | 2112 | • Agricultural scientists • Biologists • Botanical and horticultural scientists • Microbiologists and bacteriologists • Pathologists • Pharmacologists • Zoological scientists • Biological scientists not elsewhere classified |
£30,700 (£15.74 per hour) |
£27,600 (£14.15 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
Yes |
2113 Biochemists and biomedical scientists |
2112, 3111, 3319 |
• Biochemists • Biomedical scientists • Biotechnologists • Clinical scientists • Biochemists and biomedical scientists not elsewhere classified |
£35,100 (£18.00 per hour) |
£31,600 (£16.21 per hour) |
£28,100 (£14.41 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
Yes |
2114 Physical scientists | 2113 | • Geologists • Geophysicists • Hydrogeologists and hydrologists • Meteorologists • Physical scientists not elsewhere classified |
£41,500 (£21.28 per hour) |
£37,300 (£19.13 per hour) |
£33,200 (£17.03 per hour) |
£29,000 (£14.87 per hour) |
Yes |
2115 Social and humanities scientists | 2114 | • Anthropologists • Archaeologists • Behavioural scientists • Epidemiologists • Genealogists • Geographic information systems (GIS) analysts • Historians • Political scientists • Public health analysts • Social and humanities scientists not elsewhere classified |
£28,000 (£14.36 per hour) |
£25,200 (£12.92 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
Yes |
2119 Natural and social science professionals not elsewhere classified Note: For Skilled Worker purposes, SOC 2020 occupation code 2119 includes researchers in research organisations other than universities. |
2119, 2426, 3111 |
• Sports scientists • Natural and social science professionals not elsewhere classified |
£33,700 (£17.28 per hour) |
£30,300 (£15.54 per hour) |
£26,900 (£13.79 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
Yes |
2121 Civil engineers | 2121, 2122, 2126 |
• Building and building services engineers • Geotechnical engineers • Mining engineers • Structural engineers • Transportation engineers • Water engineers (professional) • Civil engineers not elsewhere classified |
£39,200 (£20.10 per hour) |
£35,300 (£18.10 per hour) |
£31,300 (£16.05 per hour) |
£27,400 (£14.05 per hour) |
Yes |
2122 Mechanical engineers | 2122, 2126 | • Automotive engineers (professional) • Marine engineers and naval architects • Mechanical design engineers • Mechanical engineers not elsewhere classified |
£38,400 (£19.69 per hour) |
£34,600 (£17.74 per hour) |
£30,700 (£15.74 per hour) |
£26,900 (£13.79 per hour) |
Yes |
2123 Electrical engineers | 2123, 2126 | • Laser engineers • Power systems engineers • Railway signalling engineers • Electrical engineers not elsewhere classified |
£47,100 (£24.15 per hour) |
£42,400 (£21.74 per hour) |
£37,700 (£19.33 per hour) |
£33,000 (£16.92 per hour) |
Yes |
2124 Electronics engineers | 2124, 2126, 5242 |
• Broadcast engineers (professional) • Telecommunications engineers (professional) • Electronics engineers not elsewhere classified |
£41,200 (£21.13 per hour) |
£37,100 (£19.03 per hour) |
£33,000 (£16.92 per hour) |
£28,900 (£14.82 per hour) |
Yes |
2125 Production and process engineers | 2127, 5224 | • Chemical engineers • Control and instrumentation engineers • Industrial and production engineers • Production and process engineers not elsewhere classified |
£36,500 (£18.72 per hour) |
£32,900 (£16.87 per hour) |
£29,200 (£14.97 per hour) |
£25,600 (£13.13 per hour) |
Yes |
2126 Aerospace engineers | 2122, 2124, 2126, 2129, 5223 |
• Aeronautical engineers (professional) • Aircraft engineers (professional) • Avionics engineers • Aerospace engineers not elsewhere classified |
£43,400 (£22.26 per hour) |
£39,000 (£20.00 per hour) |
(£16.67 per hour) | £30,400 (£15.59 per hour) |
Yes |
2127 Engineering project managers and project engineers | 2129 | • Engineering project managers and project engineers | £40,600 (£20.82 per hour) |
£36,500 (£18.72 per hour) |
32500 (£16.67 per hour) |
£28,400 (£14.56 per hour) |
Yes |
2129 Engineering professionals not elsewhere classified |
2126, 2129, 2135 |
• Acoustic engineers • Biomedical engineers • Brewers (qualified) • Clinical Engineers • Energy engineers • Food technologists • Gas engineers (professional) • Heating and ventilating engineers (professional) • Materials engineers • Mechatronic engineers • Nuclear engineers • Patent engineers • Robotics engineers • Traffic engineers • Engineering professionals not elsewhere classified |
£37,500 (£19.23 per hour) |
£33,700 (£17.28 per hour) |
£30,000 (£15.38 per hour) |
£26,200 (£13.44 per hour) |
Yes |
2131 IT project managers | 2134 | • IT project managers | £42,600 (£21.85 per hour) |
£38,300 (£19.64 per hour) |
£34,100 (£17.49 per hour) |
£29,800 (£15.28 per hour) |
Yes |
2132 IT managers |
2133 | • IT information managers • IT product managers • IT service delivery managers • IT systems managers • IT test managers • Network managers • Software development managers • Technical support managers • IT managers not elsewhere classified |
£43,000 (£22.05 per hour) |
£38,700 (£19.85 per hour) |
£34,400 (£17.64 per hour) |
£30,100 (£15.44 per hour) |
Yes |
2133 IT business analysts, architects and systems designers | 2135, 2137 | • Computer analysts and scientists • Data architects • Data engineers • IT systems architects • IT business analysts • IT solutions architects and designers • IT business analysts, architects and systems designers not elsewhere classified |
£42,400 (£21.74 per hour) |
£38,100 (£19.54 per hour) |
£33,900 (£17.38 per hour) |
£29,600 (£15.18 per hour) |
Yes |
2134 Programmers and software development professionals |
2135, 2136, 2137, 2139, 3422 |
• Computer games designers • Computer programmers • Software developers • Programmers and software development professionals not elsewhere classified |
£40,000 (£20.51 per hour) |
£36,000 (£18.46 per hour) |
£32,000 (£16.41 per hour) |
£28,000 (£14.36 per hour) |
Yes |
2135 Cyber security professionals | 2139, 2426 | • Cyber operational defence specialists • Cyber security management and governance specialists • Forensic computer specialists • Secure system development specialists • Cyber security professionals not elsewhere classified |
£35,300 (£18.10 per hour) |
£31,800 (£16.31 per hour) |
£28,200 (£14.46 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
Yes |
2136 IT quality and testing professionals | 2139, 2461 | • IT quality and testing professionals |
£34,500 (£17.69 per hour) |
£31,000 (£15.90 per hour) |
£27,600 (£14.15 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
Yes |
2137 IT network professionals | 2139 | • IT network professionals |
£38,100 (£19.54 per hour) |
£34,300 (£17.59 per hour) |
£30,500 (£15.64 per hour) |
£26,700 (£13.69 per hour) |
Yes |
2139 Information technology professionals not elsewhere classified | 2137, 2139 | • DevOps engineers • IT consultants • Webmasters and website managers • Information technology professionals not elsewhere classified |
£38,700 (£19.85 per hour) |
£34,800 (£17.85 per hour) |
£31,000 (£15.90 per hour) |
£27,100 (£13.90 per hour) |
Yes |
2141 Web design professionals | 2136, 2137 | • Application designers • UI and UX designers and researchers • Web designers • Web design professionals not elsewhere classified |
£31,300 (£16.05 per hour) |
£28,200 (£14.46 per hour) |
£25,100 (£12.87 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
Yes |
2142 Graphic and multimedia designers | 2431, 3411, 3421, 3422, 3550, 5421 |
• Multimedia animators • Graphic and multimedia designers not elsewhere classified |
£26,200 (£13.44 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
Yes |
2151 Conservation professionals |
2141 | • Conservationists • Ecologists • Heritage officers • Conservation professionals not elsewhere classified |
£29,800 (£15.28 per hour) |
£26,800 (£13.74 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
Yes |
2152 Environment professionals |
2142, 3550 | • Energy managers • Environmental and geo-environmental engineers • Environmental consultants • Environmental scientists • Sustainability officers • Environmental professionals not elsewhere classified |
£31,400 (£16.10 per hour) |
£28,300 (£14.51 per hour) |
£25,200 (£12.92 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) | Yes |
2161 Research and development (R&D) managers | 1139, 2150 | • Laboratory managers • Research and development (R&D) design managers • Research and development (R&D) managers not elsewhere classified |
£40,000 (£20.51 per hour) |
£36,000 (£18.46 per hour) |
£32,000 (£16.41 per hour) |
£28,000 (£14.36 per hour) |
Yes |
2162 Other researchers, unspecified discipline |
2119, 2426 | • Other researchers, unspecified discipline |
£37,400 (£19.18 per hour) |
£33,700 (£17.28 per hour) |
£30,000 (£15.38 per hour) |
£26,200 (£13.44 per hour) |
Yes |
2240 Veterinarians |
2216 | • Veterinarians | £38,000 (£19.49 per hour) |
£34,200 (£17.54 per hour) |
£30,400 (£15.59 per hour) |
£26,600 (£13.64 per hour) |
Yes |
2311 Higher education teaching professionals | 2311, 2312 | • Higher education teaching professionals |
£40,600 (£20.82 per hour) |
£36,500 (£18.72 per hour) |
£32,500 (£16.67 per hour) |
£28,400 (£14.56 per hour) |
Yes |
2317 Teachers of English as a foreign language | 2319 | • Teachers of English as a Foreign Language |
£30,100 (£15.44 per hour) |
£27,100 (£13.90 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
Yes |
2319 Teaching professionals not elsewhere classified | 2319, 3413, 3414 |
• Adult education tutors • Dance and drama school principals and owners • Private music and singing teachers • Private tutors • Teaching professionals not elsewhere classified |
£27,100 (£13.90 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
Yes |
2322 Education managers | 1259, 2317, 2319 |
• Education managers | £34,900 (£17.90 per hour) |
£31,400 (£16.10 per hour) |
£27,900 (£14.31 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
Yes |
2323 Education advisers and school inspectors | 2318, 2319 | • Educational advisers • School inspectors |
£35,700 (£18.31 per hour) |
£32,100 (£16.46 per hour) |
£28,500 (£14.62 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
Yes |
2329 Other educational professionals not elsewhere classified | 2317, 2319 | • Bursars • Educational administrators • Examiners and markers • Other educational professionals not elsewhere classified |
£30,000 (£15.38 per hour) |
£27,000 (£13.85 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
Yes |
2411 Barristers and judges | 2412 | • Barristers and advocates • Judges • Barristers and judges not elsewhere classified |
£37,000 (£18.97 per hour) |
£33,300 (£17.08 per hour) |
£29,600 (£15.18 per hour) |
£25,900 (£13.28 per hour) |
Yes |
2412 Solicitors and lawyers | 2413, 2419 | • Commercial solicitors and lawyers • Criminal solicitors and lawyers • Family solicitors and lawyers • Property solicitors and lawyers • Solicitors and lawyers not elsewhere classified |
£39,000 (£20.00 per hour) |
£35,100 (£18.00 per hour) |
£31,200 (£16.00 per hour) |
£27,300 (£14.00 per hour) |
Yes |
2419 Legal professionals not elsewhere classified | 2419, 3520 | • Conveyancers • Litigation executives • Paralegals • Patent and trademark attorneys • Legal professionals not elsewhere classified |
£25,100 (£12.87 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
Yes |
2421 Chartered and certified accountants | 2421 | • Auditors (qualified accountant) • Financial accountants (qualified) • Forensic accountants • Fund accountants • Insolvency practitioners • Chartered and certified accountants not elsewhere classified |
£36,900 (£18.92 per hour) |
£33,200 (£17.03 per hour) |
£29,500 (£15.13 per hour) |
£25,800 (£13.23 per hour) |
Yes |
2422 Finance and investment analysts and advisers | 3534, 3537 | • Credit analysts • Financial advisers and planners • Financial analysts • Mortgage advisers • Finance and investment analysts and advisers not elsewhere classified |
£34,200 (£17.54 per hour) |
£30,800 (£15.79 per hour) |
£27,300 (£14.00 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
Yes |
2423 Taxation experts | 3535 | • Taxation experts | £35,400 (£18.15 per hour) |
£31,900 (£16.36 per hour) |
£28,300 (£14.51 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
Yes |
2431 Management consultants and business analysts |
1255, 2423 | • Business analysts and consultants • Management advisers and consultants • Risk analysts • Management consultants and business analysts not elsewhere classified |
£36,000 (£18.46 per hour) |
£32,400 (£16.62 per hour) |
£28,800 (£14.77 per hour) |
£25,200 (£12.92 per hour) |
Yes |
2432 Marketing and commercial managers | 3545 | • Commercial managers • Marketing managers • Marketing and commercial managers not elsewhere classified |
£39,900 (£20.46 per hour) |
£35,900 (£18.41 per hour) |
£31,900 (£16.36 per hour) |
£28,000 (£14.36 per hour) |
Yes |
2433 Actuaries, economists and statisticians | 2425 | • Actuaries and actuarial analysts • Economists • Mathematicians • Statistical data scientists • Statisticians • Actuaries, economists and statisticians not elsewhere classified |
£40,700 (£20.87 per hour) |
£36,600 (£18.77 per hour) |
£32,500 (£16.67 per hour) |
£28,500 (£14.62 per hour) |
Yes |
2434 Business and related research professionals | 2426, 3319, 3543 |
• Intelligence analysts • Researchers in media and entertainment • Business and related research professionals not elsewhere classified |
£31,500 (£16.15 per hour) |
£28,400 (£14.56 per hour) |
£25,200 (£12.92 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
Yes |
2435 Professional/char tered company secretaries |
2429, 4214 | • Professional/chartered company secretaries | £38,600 (£19.79 per hour) |
£34,700 (£17.79 per hour) |
£30,900 (£15.85 per hour) |
£27,000 (£13.85 per hour) |
Yes |
2439 Business, research and administrative professionals not elsewhere classified | 2429, 4215 | • Policy officers • Business, research and administrative professionals not elsewhere classified |
£43,200 (£22.15 per hour) |
£38,900 (£19.95 per hour) |
£34,500 (£17.69 per hour) |
£30,200 (£15.49 per hour) |
Yes |
2440 Business and financial project management professionals | 2424, 3545 | • Business change managers • Clinical trials coordinators • Risk managers • Business and financial project management professionals not elsewhere classified |
£43,300 (£22.21 per hour) |
£39,000 (£20.00 per hour) |
£34,700 (£17.79 per hour) |
£30,300 (£15.54 per hour) |
Yes |
2451 Architects | 2431 | • Architects • Landscape architects and designers |
£37,800 (£19.38 per hour) |
£34,000 (£17.44 per hour) |
£30,200 (£15.49 per hour) |
£26,400 (£13.54 per hour) |
Yes |
2452 Chartered architectural technologists, planning officers and consultants | 2431, 2432, 2435, 3121, 3122 |
• Chartered architectural technologists • Town planning officers • Urban designers • Chartered architectural technologists, planning officers and consultants not elsewhere classified |
£28,200 (£14.46 per hour) |
£25,300 (£12.97 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
Yes |
2453 Quantity surveyors | 2433 | • Quantity surveyors | £38,500 (£19.74 per hour) |
£34,600 (£17.74 per hour) |
£30,800 (£15.79 per hour) |
£26,900 (£13.79 per hour) |
Yes |
2454 Chartered surveyors | 2434, 2435, 3565 |
• Building control surveyors • Hydrographic surveyors • Land surveyors • Property surveyors • Chartered surveyors not elsewhere classified |
£36,000 (£18.46 per hour) |
£32,400 (£16.62 per hour) |
£28,800 (£14.77 per hour) |
£25,200 (£12.92 per hour) |
Yes |
2455 Construction project managers and related professionals |
2432, 2436 | • Construction project and contract managers • Transport planners • Construction project managers and related professionals not elsewhere classified |
£36,600 (£18.77 per hour) |
£32,900 (£16.87 per hour) |
£29,300 (£15.03 per hour) |
£25,600 (£13.13 per hour) |
Yes |
2462 Probation officers | 2443 | • Probation officers | £29,400 (£15.08 per hour) |
£26,400 (£13.54 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
Yes |
2464 Youth work professionals | 2449 | • Youth work professionals |
£34,500 (£17.69 per hour) |
£31,000 (£15.90 per hour) |
£27,600 (£14.15 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
Yes |
2469 Welfare professionals not elsewhere classified | 2449 | • Adoption officers • Children and family services professionals • Mediators and restorative practice professionals • Welfare professionals not elsewhere classified |
£33,500 (£17.18 per hour) |
£30,200 (£15.49 per hour) |
£26,800 (£13.74 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
Yes |
2471 Librarians | 2451 | • Librarians | £26,400 (£13.54 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
Yes |
2472 Archivists, conservators and curators | 2452 | • Archivists • Collection managers and curators • Conservators • Museum education officers • Archivists and curators not elsewhere classified |
£29,600 (£15.18 per hour) |
£26,700 (£13.69 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
Yes |
2481 Quality control and planning engineers | 2461, 3115 | • Garment technologists • Planning engineers • Quality control engineers • Quality control and planning engineers not elsewhere classified |
£34,100 (£17.49 per hour) |
£30,700 (£15.74 per hour) |
£27,300 (£14.00 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
Yes |
2482 Quality assurance and regulatory professionals | 2462, 3567 | • Compliance and regulatory professionals • Quality assurance professionals |
£38,100 (£19.54 per hour) |
£34,300 (£17.59 per hour) |
£30,500 (£15.64 per hour) |
£26,700 (£13.69 per hour) |
Yes |
2483 Environmental health professionals |
2463 | • Environmental health professionals |
£34,100 (£17.49 per hour) |
£30,700 (£15.74 per hour) |
£27,300 (£14.00 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
Yes |
2491 Newspaper, periodical and broadcast editors | 2471 | • Newspaper, periodical and broadcast editors | £32,200 (£16.51 per hour) |
£28,900 (£14.82 per hour) |
£25,700 (£13.18 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
Yes |
2492 Newspaper and periodical broadcast journalists and reporters | 2471 | • Broadcast journalists • Newspaper journalists and reporters • Newspaper and periodical journalists and reporters not elsewhere classified |
£25,500 (£13.08 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
Yes |
2493 Public relations professionals | 2472 | • Press officers • Public relations officers • Social media managers • Public relations professionals not elsewhere classified |
£30,100 (£15.44 per hour) |
£27,100 (£13.90 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
Yes |
2494 Advertising accounts managers and creative directors | 2473 | • Advertising account managers • Creative directors • Fundraising managers |
£37,200 (£19.08 per hour) |
£33,500 (£17.18 per hour) |
£29,700 (£15.23 per hour) |
£26,000 (£13.33 per hour) |
Yes |
3415 Musicians | 3415 | • Composers and musical arrangers • Music conductors • Instrumentalists • Musicians not elsewhere classified |
£30,100 (£15.44 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
3416 Arts officers, producers and directors | 2471, 3412, 3416 |
• Art consultants • Broadcasting and entertainment directors • Broadcasting and entertainment editors • Broadcasting and entertainment producers • Studio and stage managers • Arts officers, producers and directors not elsewhere classified |
£28,800 (£14.77 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
3511 Aircraft pilots and air traffic controllers | 3511, 3512 | • Airline pilots • Air traffic controllers • Flying instructors • Helicopter pilots • Aircraft pilots and air traffic controllers not elsewhere classified |
£64,100 (£32.87 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £44,900 (£23.03 per hour) |
No |
3531 Brokers | 3532 | • Commodity brokers and traders • Insurance and mortgage brokers • Shipbrokers • Stockbrokers • Brokers not elsewhere classified |
£40,000 (£20.51 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £28,000 (£14.36 per hour) |
No |
3534 Financial accounts managers | 1150, 3538 | • Claims managers • Credit managers • Investment managers • Relationship managers • Financial accounts managers not elsewhere classified |
£34,800 (£17.85 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) | No |
3556 Sales accounts and business development managers | 1121, 1133, 3538, 3545 |
• Brand managers • Business development managers • Sales account managers • Sales accounts and business development managers not elsewhere classified |
£40,500 (£20.77 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £28,300 (£14.51 per hour) |
No |
Table 2aa: Additional eligible SOC 2020 occupation codes and related going rates for Skilled Worker applicants granted permission under the rules in place before 22 July 2025
SOC 2020 occupation code | Equivalent SOC 2010 occupation code(s) |
Examples of related job titles (non- exclusive) | Going rate (SW – options F and I, GBM and SCU) |
90% of going rate (SW – option G) |
80% of going rate (SW – option H) |
70% of going rate (SW – option J, GTR) | Eligible for PhD points (SW)? |
1150 Managers and directors in retail and wholesale | 1121, 1190, 3545 |
• Managers and directors in retail and wholesale | £29,400 (£15.08 per hour) |
£26,400 (£13.54 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
Yes |
1211 Managers and proprietors in agriculture and horticulture |
1211 | • Managers and proprietors in agriculture and horticulture |
£29,100 (£14.92 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
1212 Managers and proprietors in forestry, fishing and related services | 1213, 5223 | • Cattery and kennel managers and proprietors • Fisheries managers and proprietors • Forestry managers • Livery yard and stud farm managers and proprietors • Racehorse trainers • Managers and proprietors in forestry, fishing and related services not elsewhere classified |
£25,800 (£13.23 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
1221 Hotel and accommodation managers and proprietors | 1221 | • Hotel and accommodation managers and proprietors | £29,800 (£15.28 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
1222 Restaurant and catering establishment managers and proprietors | 1223 | • Café and restaurant managers and proprietors • Catering operations managers • Takeaway managers and proprietors • Restaurant and catering establishment managers and proprietors not elsewhere classified |
£26,100 (£13.38 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
1223 Publicans and managers of licensed premises | 1224 | • Publicans and managers of licensed premises | £30,900 (£15.85 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
1224 Leisure and sports managers and proprietors | 1225, 1253 | • Cinema managers and proprietors • Golf course managers • Gym, fitness and leisure services managers and proprietors • Marina managers • Museum managers and proprietors • Parks and gardens managers • Theatre managers (excludes hospital service) • Leisure and sports managers and proprietors not elsewhere classified |
£26,600 (£13.64 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
1225 Travel agency managers and proprietors | 1226 | • Travel agency managers and proprietors | £30,000 (£15.38 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
1231 Health care practice managers | 1241 | • Dental practice managers • Medical practice managers • Opticians managers • Veterinary practice managers • Health care practice managers not elsewhere classified |
£32,600 (£16.72 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
1232 Residential, day and domiciliary care managers and proprietors | 1121, 1184, 1242, 1259 |
• Day care managers • Home care managers • Residential care managers and proprietors • Residential, day and domiciliary care managers and proprietors not elsewhere classified |
£32,000 (£16.41 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
1233 Early education and childcare services proprietors | 1259, 2319, 6121 |
• Early education and childcare services proprietors | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
1242 Managers in storage and warehousing | 1162 | • Managers in storage and warehousing |
£29,100 (£14.92 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
1243 Managers in logistics | 1133, 1161, 1162 |
• Managers in logistics |
£37,300 (£19.13 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £26,100 (£13.38 per hour) |
No |
1251 Property, housing and estate managers | 1251 | • Facilities managers • Landlords, property and housing managers • Property investors and developers • Sales and lettings managers • Shopping centre managers • Property, housing and estate managers not elsewhere classified |
£32,500 (£16.67 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
1252 Garage managers and proprietors | 1252 | • Garage managers and proprietors |
£36,300 (£18.62 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,400 (£13.03 per hour) |
No |
1253 Hairdressing and beauty salon managers and proprietors | 1253 | • Beauty salon managers and proprietors • Hairdressing managers and proprietors • Hairdressing and beauty salon managers and proprietors not elsewhere classified |
£27,000 (£13.85 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
1256 Betting shop and gambling establishment managers | 1225, 1259 | • Betting shop managers • Bingo hall managers • Casino managers • Betting shop and gambling establishment managers not elsewhere classified |
£27,100 (£13.90 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
1257 Hire services managers and proprietors |
1255, 1259 | • Hire services managers and proprietors | £28,200 (£14.46 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
1258 Directors in consultancy services | 1259 | • Design consultancy directors • Environmental consultancy directors • Management consultancy directors • Surveying consultancy directors • Directors in consultancy services not elsewhere classified |
£44,600 (£22.87 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £31,300 (£16.05 per hour) |
No |
1259 Managers and proprietors in other services not elsewhere classified |
1139, 1259 | • Cleaning and hygiene services managers and proprietors • Educational establishment managers and proprietors • Funeral services and crematorium managers and proprietors • Library managers • Recruitment agency managers and proprietors • Security services managers and proprietors • Managers and proprietors in other services not elsewhere classified |
£33,100 (£16.97 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
2324 Early education and childcare services managers |
1225, 1242, 1259, 2319, 6121 |
• Early education and childcare services managers | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
Yes |
3111 Laboratory technicians | 3111 | • Biological laboratory technicians • Chemical laboratory technicians • Health physics monitors • Laboratory food technicians • Medical laboratory technicians • Laboratory technicians not elsewhere classified |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
Yes |
3112 Electrical and electronics technicians | 3112 | • Avionics technicians • Electrical and electronics technicians not elsewhere classified |
£30,800 (£15.79 per hour) |
£27,800 (£14.26 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) | Yes |
3113 Engineering technicians |
3113 | • Aerospace technicians • Wind turbine technicians • Engineering technicians not elsewhere classified |
£34,700 (£17.79 per hour) |
£31,200 (£16.00 per hour) |
£27,700 (£14.21 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
Yes |
3114 Building and civil engineering technicians | 3114 | • Building technicians • Civil engineering technicians • Surveying technicians • Building and civil engineering technicians not elsewhere classified |
£27,900 (£14.31 per hour) |
£25,100 (£12.87 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
Yes |
3115 Quality assurance technicians |
3115 | • Quality assurance technicians |
£26,500 (£13.59 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
Yes |
3116 Planning, process and production technicians | 3116 | • Planning, process and production technicians | £28,700 (£14.72 per hour) |
£25,900 (£13.28 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
Yes |
3119 Science, engineering and production technicians not elsewhere classified | 3111, 3119, 3411 |
• School technicians • Textile consultants • Science, engineering and production technicians not elsewhere classified |
£28,000 (£14.36 per hour) |
£25,200 (£12.92 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
Yes |
3120 CAD, drawing and architectural technicians |
2435, 3121, 3122 |
• Architectural technicians • BIM and CAD technicians • Cartographers • CAD, drawing and architectural technicians not elsewhere classified |
£28,700 (£14.72 per hour) |
£25,800 (£13.23 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
Yes |
3131 IT operations technicians |
3131, 5245 | • Games testers • Network and systems administrators • Quality assurance testers • Software technicians • IT operations technicians not elsewhere classified |
£27,700 (£14.21 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
Yes |
3132 IT user support technicians | 3132, 5245 | • IT user support technicians |
£27,700 (£14.21 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
Yes |
3133 Database administrators and web content technicians | 2137, 3131, 7220 |
• Database administrators • Web content technicians • Database administrators and web content technicians not elsewhere classified |
£29,200 (£14.97 per hour) |
£26,200 (£13.44 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
Yes |
3211 Dispensing opticians | 2214, 3216 | • Dispensing opticians | £25,100 (£12.87 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
3212 Pharmaceutical technicians |
3217 | • Pharmaceutical technicians |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
3221 Youth and community workers | 3231, 3239, 3531 |
• Community workers • Family support workers • Youth workers (excludes youth work professionals) • Youth and community workers not elsewhere classified |
£26,500 (£13.59 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
3222 Child and early years officers | 3239 | • Child protection officers • Learning and behaviour mentors • Welfare and attendance officers • Child and early years officers not elsewhere classified |
£25,400 (£13.03 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
3223 Housing officers | 3234 | • Housing officers | £27,800 (£14.26 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
3224 Counsellors | 3235, 3239 | • Bereavement counsellors • Debt advisers • Life coaches • Relationship counsellors • Substance misuse workers • Counsellors not elsewhere classified |
£26,200 (£13.44 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
3229 Welfare and housing associate professionals not elsewhere classified | 2129, 2318, 2412, 3239 |
• Advocates (excludes solicitor advocates) • Celebrants • Charity workers • Day care officers • Health advisers • Homelessness and housing advice support workers • Mental health project workers • Probation service workers • Student support workers • Victim support workers • Welfare and housing associate professionals not elsewhere classified |
£25,400 (£13.03 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
3232 Early education and childcare practitioners |
6121, 6126 | • Early education and childcare practitioners |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
3240 Veterinary nurses | 6131 | • Veterinary nurses | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
3312 Police officers (sergeant and below) | 3312 | • Police constable • Police sergeant • Police officers (sergeant and below) not elsewhere classified |
£36,700 (£18.82 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,700 (£13.18 per hour) |
No |
3313 Fire service officers (watch manager and below) | 1173, 3313 | • Firefighters • Fire service crew managers • Watch managers • Fire service officers (watch manager and below) not elsewhere classified |
£37,600 (£19.28 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £26,300 (£13.49 per hour) |
No |
3314 Prison service officers (below principal officer) | 3314 | • Operational support grades • Prison officers • Prison service officers (below principal officer) not elsewhere classified |
£31,600 (£16.21 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
3319 Protective service associate professionals not elsewhere classified | 3319 | • Coastguard • Customs and border control officers • Fraud investigators (excludes benefit fraud) • Immigration officers • Private investigators • Security consultants and managers (excludes cyber security) • Protective service associate professionals not elsewhere classified |
£33,200 (£17.03 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
3411 Artists | 3411 | • Art technicians (excludes education) • Drawing and painting artists • Hand drawn animators • Illustrators (excludes medical and scientific) • Medical and scientific illustrators • Picture restorers • Sculptors • Tattoo and henna artists • Artists not elsewhere classified |
£26,600 (£13.64 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
3412 Authors, writers and translators | 3412 | • Authors • Bloggers • Copywriters • Literary editors • Poets • Script writers • Technical writers (excludes computing) • Translators and interpreters • Authors, writers and translators not elsewhere classified |
£29,800 (£15.28 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
3413 Actors, entertainers and presenters | 3413, 3415, 3416 |
• Actors • Broadcasters, podcasters and presenters • Children's entertainers • Comedians • Disc jockeys • Magicians • Models • Singers • Social media influencers • Actors, entertainers and presenters not elsewhere classified |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
3414 Dancers and choreographers | 3414 | • Choreographers • Dance teachers (excludes educational establishments) • Dancers |
£28,500 (£14.62 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
3417 Photographers, audio-visual and broadcasting equipment operators |
3417 | • Camera operators and videographers • Lighting designers • Photographers • Sound designers • Sound engineers • Theatre technicians (excludes hospitals) • Photographers, audio-visual and broadcasting equipment operators not elsewhere classified |
£25,400 (£13.03 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
3421 Interior designers | 2431, 3422 | • Interior designers | £29,600 (£15.18 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
3422 Clothing, fashion and accessories designers | 3122, 3422 | • Clothing and fashion consultants • Clothing and fashion designers • Footwear designers • Jewellery designers • Textile designers • Clothing, fashion and accessories designers not elsewhere classified |
£29,100 (£14.92 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
3429 Design occupations not elsewhere classified | 2431, 3122, 3422, 7125 |
• Industrial and product designers • Packaging designers • Performance make- up artists • Set designers • Visual merchandising managers and designers • Design occupations not elsewhere classified |
£29,800 (£15.28 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
3433 Fitness and wellbeing instructors | 3443 | • Group fitness instructors and personal trainers • Pilates teachers • Yoga teachers • Fitness and wellbeing instructors not elsewhere classified |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
3512 Ship and hovercraft officers | 3513 | • Ship and hovercraft captains and deck officers (excludes armed forces and fishing) • Marine engineers • Ship and hovercraft officers not elsewhere classified |
£39,100 (£20.05 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £27,300 (£14.00 per hour) | No |
3520 Legal associate professionals | 2419, 3520 | • Conveyancing professionals • Cost lawyers • Barrister's and judge's clerks • Litigation officers • Probate managers • Will writers • Legal associate professionals not elsewhere classified |
£26,400 (£13.54 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
3532 Insurance underwriters | 3533 | • Insurance underwriters |
£29,800 (£15.28 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
3533 Financial and accounting technicians | 3537 | • Accounting technicians • Financial control technicians • Financial and accounting technicians not elsewhere classified |
£32,900 (£16.87 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
3541 Estimators, valuers and assessors | 3531 | • Energy advisers and assessors • Estimators • Loss adjusters • Valuers • Vehicle damage assessors • Estimators, valuers and assessors not elswhere classified |
£28,600 (£14.67 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
3542 Importers and exporters | 3536 | • Importers and exporters | £29,800 (£15.28 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
3543 Project support officers | 2136, 3113, 3534, 3539 |
• Project support officers |
£28,900 (£14.82 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
3544 Data analysts | 3539 | • Data analysts | £28,600 (£14.67 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
3549 Business associate professionals not elsewhere classified | 3539 | • Business support officers • Business systems analysts • Contract administrators • Clinical coders • Clinical trials administrators • Research coordinators • Business associate professionals not elsewhere classified |
£25,500 (£13.08 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
3551 Buyers and procurement officers | 3541 | • Buyers and procurement officers |
£29,300 (£15.03 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
3552 Business sales executives | 3542, 4151 | • Business sales executives |
£29,300 (£15.03 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
3553 Merchandisers |
3539, 3541, 3543, 7125 |
• Merchandisers | £25,200 (£12.92 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
3554 Advertising and marketing associate professionals | 3412, 3416, 3543, 4151, 7215 |
• Advertising and marketing executives • Fundraisers • Market researchers (excludes interviewers) • Marketing associate professionals not elsewhere classified |
£26,300 (£13.49 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
3555 Estate agents and auctioneers | 3542, 3544, 3565, 5319 |
• Estate agents • Land and property auctioneers and valuers • Letting agents • Estate agents and auctioneers not elsewhere classified |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
3557 Events managers and organisers | 3546 | • Conference managers and organisers • Exhibition managers and organisers • Festival managers and organisers • Hospitality managers • Wedding planners and organisers • Event managers and organisers not elsewhere classified |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
3560 Public services associate professionals | 3561 | • Electoral services officers • Health service administrators • Job Centre officers • Waste management officers • Public services associate professionals not elsewhere classified |
£34,000 (£17.44 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
3571 Human resources and industrial relations officers |
3562 | • Equality and diversity officers • Human resources advisers • Recruitment consultants • Human resources and industrial relations officers not elsewhere classified |
£27,100 (£13.90 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
3572 Careers advisers and vocational guidance specialists | 3564 | • Careers advisers and coaches • Work placement officers • Careers advisers and vocational guidance specialists not elsewhere classified |
£26,700 (£13.69 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
3573 Information technology trainers | 3563 | • Information technology trainers |
£32,100 (£16.46 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
3574 Other vocational and industrial trainers | 3531, 3563 | • Business coaches • Retail and store trainers • Training assessors • Other vocational and industrial trainers not elsewhere classified |
£28,200 (£14.46 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
3581 Inspectors of standards and regulations | 3565 | • Animal health inspectors and officers • Building control officers • Driving examiners • Health and safety inspectors • Housing and planning inspectors • Licensing officers • Meat hygiene inspectors • Nuclear safety inspectors • Trading standards officers • Traffic and vehicle examiners and inspectors • Inspectors of standards and regulations not elsewhere classified |
£30,000 (£15.38 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
• Trading standards officers • Traffic and vehicle examiners and inspectors • Inspectors of standards and regulations not elsewhere classified |
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3582 Health and safety managers and officers | 1259, 2434, 3567 |
• Asbestos safety officers • Fire safety managers and officers • Occupational health and safety managers and officers • Road traffic and transport safety officers • Occupational hygienists • Health and safety managers and officers not elsewhere classified |
£34,800 (£17.85 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
4111 National government administrative occupations | 3531, 3564, 4112 |
• National government benefits officers • National government revenue officers • Passport officers • National government administrative occupations not elsewhere classified |
£25,900 (£13.28 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
4112 Local government administrative occupations | 3119, 3550 | • Local government benefits officers • Local government housing assistants • Local government revenue officers • Parish clerks • Local government administrative occupations not elsewhere classified |
£26,000 (£13.33 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
4113 Officers of non- governmental organisations | 4114 | • Charity administrators • Clerks to governors • Union officials • Officers of non- governmental organisations not elsewhere classified |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
4121 Credit controllers | • Credit controllers | £25,200 (£12.92 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No | |
4122 Book- keepers, payroll managers and wages clerks | • Accounting clerks and bookkeepers • Payroll officers and wages clerks • Bookkeepers, payroll managers and wage clerks not elsewhere classified |
£25,400 (£13.03 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No | |
4124 Finance officers | • Finance officers | £25,600 (£13.13 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No | |
4129 Financial administrative occupations not elsewhere classified | • Box office assistants • Grants officers • Mortgage administrators • Revenue assistants (excludes National and Local government revenue occupations) • Treasury assistants • Finance administrative occupations not elsewhere classified |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No | |
4132 Pensions and insurance clerks and assistants | • Claims handlers • Insurance administrators • Pensions administrators • Pensions and insurance clerks and assistants not elsewhere classified |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No | |
4134 Transport and distribution clerks and assistants | 4134 | • Transport and distribution clerks and assistants | £25,900 (£13.28 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
4141 Office managers | 1241, 4161 | • Office managers | £30,000 (£15.38 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
4143 Customer service managers | 7220 | • Call centre managers • Customer service managers not elsewhere classified |
£27,600 (£14.15 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
4151 Sales administrators | 4151 | • Sales administrators | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
4159 Other administrative occupations not elsewhere classified | • Business administrators • Church administrators • Facilities coordinators • Proofreaders • Property administrators • Warranty administrators • Other administrative occupations not elsewhere classified |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No | |
4214 Company secretaries and administrators | 4214 | • Company secretaries and administrators |
£27,100 (£13.90 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
4215 Personal assistants and other secretaries | 4215 | • Farm secretaries • Personal assistants (excludes care workers) • Personal assistants and other secretaries not elsewhere classified |
£27,400 (£14.05 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
5111 Farmers | 5111 | • Agricultural contractors • Aquaculture farmers • Arable farmers • Dairy farmers • Livestock farmers • Poultry farmers • Farmers not elsewhere classified |
£28,200 (£14.46 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
5112 Horticultural trades |
5112 | • Horticultural trades | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
5113 Gardeners and landscape gardeners | 5113, 9119 | • Garden designers • Gardeners (excludes horticultural/market gardening) • Green roof installers • Landscape gardeners • Gardeners and landscape gardeners not elsewhere classified |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
5114 Groundsmen and greenkeepers |
5114 | • Groundsmen and greenkeepers |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) | No |
5119 Agricultural and fishing trades not elsewhere classified |
3550, 5119 | • Arborists • Beekeepers • Countryside and park officers and rangers • Falconers • Fish and river keepers • Fishers • Gamekeepers • Agricultural and fishing trades not elsewhere classified |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
5211 Sheet metal workers | 5213 | • Metal fabricators and finishers • Panel beaters (excludes vehicles) • Whitesmiths • Sheet metal workers not elsewhere classified |
£26,800 (£13.74 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
5212 Metal plate workers, smiths, moulders and related occupations | 5211, 5212, 5214 |
• Die casters • Farriers • Moulders, mould makers and core makers • Smiths • Metal plate workers, smiths, moulders and related occupations not elsewhere classified |
£29,200 (£14.97 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
5213 Welding trades | 5215 | • Braziers and solderers • Pipe welders • Plate welders • Welding trades not elsewhere classified |
£29,500 (£15.13 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
5214 Pipe fitters | 5216 | • Pipe fitters | £40,400 (£20.72 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £28,300 (£14.51 per hour) |
No |
5221 Metal machining setters and setter- operators | 5221 | • Computer numerical control (CNC) machine setters and setter-operators • Metal machining setters and setter- operators not elsewhere classified |
£28,500 (£14.62 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
5222 Tool makers, tool fitters and markers-out | 5222 | • Tool fitters • Tool makers • Tool makers, tool fitters and markers-out not elsewhere classified |
£33,400 (£17.13 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
5223 Metal working production and maintenance fitters | 5223, 5225, 5237 |
• Automation maintenance technicians • Bicycle mechanics • Catering equipment technicians • Door fitters and makers • Gunsmiths • Heavy plant maintenance technicians • Hydraulic technicians • Lift technicians • Locksmiths • Pump technicians • Textile machine technicians • Turbine fitters • Metal working production and maintenance fitters not elsewhere classified |
£29,900 (£15.33 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
5224 Precision instrument makers and repairers | 5224 | • Calibration and precision instrument technicians • Camera and photographic equipment technicians • Horologists, watch makers and repairers • Optical technicians • Precision instrument makers and repairers not elsewhere classified |
£28,300 (£14.51 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
5225 Air- conditioning and refrigeration installers and repairers |
5225 | • Air-conditioning and refrigeration installers and repairers | £35,500 (£18.21 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
5231 Vehicle technicians, mechanics and electricians | 5231 | • Auto electricians • Car/light vehicle technicians • Heavy and large vehicle technicians • Motorcycle technicians • Motorsport technicians • MOT testers • Roadside assistance technicians • Vehicle technicians, mechanics and electricians not elsewhere classified |
£27,900 (£14.31 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
5232 Vehicle body builders and repairers | 5232 | • Vehicle body builders and repairers | £27,600 (£14.15 per hour) |
Not | Not | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
5233 Vehicle paint technicians | 5232, 5234 | • Vehicle paint technicians |
£29,600 (£15.18 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
5234 Aircraft maintenance and related trades |
5235 | • Aircraft maintenance and related trades |
£34,800 (£17.85 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
5235 Boat and ship builders and repairers | 5236 | • Boat and ship builders and repairers |
£29,600 (£15.18 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
5236 Rail and rolling stock builders and repairers | 5237 | • Rail and rolling stock builders and repairers | £38,800 (£19.90 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £27,100 (£13.90 per hour) |
No |
5241 Electricians and electrical fitters | 5241 | • Electric vehicle charging point installers • Electro-mechanical technicians • Installation and maintenance electricians • Smart energy experts • Solar panel installers • Street lighting electrician • Electricians and electrical fitters not elsewhere classified |
£31,500 (£16.15 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
5242 Telecoms and related network installers and repairers |
5242, 5249 | • Telecoms and related network installers and repairers | £31,700 (£16.26 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
5243 TV, video and audio servicers and repairers | 5244 | • TV, video and audio servicers and repairers |
£25,100 (£12.87 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
5244 Computer system and equipment installers and servicers | 5245, 5249 | • Computer system and equipment installers and servicers | £26,700 (£13.69 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
5245 Security system installers and repairers |
5249 | • Security system installers and repairers |
£28,800 (£14.77 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
5246 Electrical service and maintenance mechanics and repairers |
5241, 5249 | • Electrical service and maintenance mechanics and repairers | £33,800 (£17.33 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
5249 Electrical and electronic trades not elsewhere classified | 5249 | • Broadcast and communications technicians • Overhead line workers • Signal workers • Electrical and electronic trades not elsewhere classified |
£35,600 (£18.26 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
5250 Skilled metal, electrical and electronic trades supervisors | 1252, 5250 | • Skilled metal, electrical and electronic trades supervisors | £36,500 (£18.72 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,600 (£13.13 per hour) |
No |
5311 Steel erectors | 5311 | • Steel erectors | £29,500 (£15.13 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
5312 Stonemasons and related trades |
5312 | • Dry stone wallers • Monumental masons • Stonemasons • Stonemasons and related trades not elsewhere classified |
£28,500 (£14.62 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
5313 Bricklayers | 5312 | • Bricklayers | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
5314 Roofers, roof tilers and slaters | 5313 | • Felt and flat roofers • Sheeters and cladders • Thatchers • Tilers and slaters • Roofers, roof tilers and slaters not elsewhere classified |
£25,300 (£12.97 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
5315 Plumbers and heating and ventilating installers and repairers | 5314 | • Plumbers and heating and ventilation installers and repairers | £31,400 (£16.10 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
5316 Carpenters and joiners | 5315 | • Bedroom and kitchen fitters • Carpenters • Joiners • Carpenters and joiners not elsewhere classified |
£27,800 (£14.26 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
5317 Glaziers, window fabricators and fitters | 5249, 5316 | • Glass cutters and glaziers • Window fabricators • Window fitters • Glaziers, window fabricators and fitters not elsewhere classified |
£25,800 (£13.23 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
5319 Construction and building trades not elsewhere classified |
5319 | • Builders • Divers • Fence erectors • Industrial climbers • Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) operators • Steel fixers and underpinners • Construction and building trades not elsewhere classified |
£27,300 (£14.00 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
5321 Plasterers | 5321 | • Dry liners • Plasterers (wall and decorative) |
£29,500 (£15.13 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
5322 Floorers and wall tilers | 5313, 5322 | • Carpet and linoleum fitters • Floor layers • Tilers • Floorers and wall tilers not elsewhere classified |
£25,400 (£13.03 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
5323 Painters and decorators | 5323 | • Painters and decorators |
£27,800 (£14.26 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
5330 Construction and building trades supervisors |
5330 | • Carpenter and joinery supervisors • Demolition supervisors • Painting supervisors • Plumbing supervisors • Road construction supervisors • Roofing supervisors • Scaffolding supervisors • Construction and building trade supervisors not elsewhere classified |
£34,600 (£17.74 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
5411 Upholsterers |
5412 | • Curtain makers • Trimmers and upholsterers • Upholsterers not elsewhere classified |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
5412 Footwear and leather working trades | 5413 | • Footwear makers and repairers • Leather workers (excludes leather dressing) • Footwear and leather working trades not elsewhere classified |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
5413 Tailors and dressmakers | 5414 | • Costume makers • Dressmakers • Fitters and alterations assistants • Kilt makers • Milliners (excludes wholesale, retail trade) • Tailors • Tailors and dressmakers not elsewhere classified |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
5419 Textiles, garments and related trades not elsewhere classified | 5411, 5419 | • Embroiderers and sewers • Knitters • Sail makers • Weavers (excludes basket, wig and wire goods mfr) • Textiles, garments and related trades not elsewhere classified |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
5421 Pre-press technicians | 5421 | • Pre-press technicians | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
5422 Printers | 5422 | • Digital printers • Flexographic printers • Lithographic printers • Screen printers • Printers not elsewhere classified |
£26,200 (£13.44 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
5423 Print finishing and binding workers | 5423 | • Print finishing and binding workers |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
5431 Butchers | 5431 | • Butchers • Slaughterers |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
5432 Bakers and flour confectioners | 5432 | • Bakers (excludes food process bakery workers and textile manufacturing) • Cake decorators and designers • Bakers and flour confectioners not elsewhere classified |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
5433 Fishmongers and poultry dressers |
5433 | • Fishmongers • Poultry dressers • Fishmongers and poultry dressers not elsewhere classified |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
5434 Chefs | 5434 | • Chefs | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
5436 Catering and bar managers | 5436 | • Catering and bar managers |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
5441 Glass and ceramics makers, decorators and finishers | 5441 | • Ceramic makers, decorators and finishers • Ceramic potters • Glass blowers • Glass makers, decorators and finishers • Optical glass makers • Glass and ceramics makers, decorators and finishers not elsewhere classified |
£25,400 (£13.03 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
5442 Furniture makers and other craft woodworkers | 5442 | • Cabinet makers (excludes metal) • Furniture makers and fitters • Furniture restorers • Furniture sprayers and finishers • Picture framers • Shed makers • Furniture makers and other craft woodworkers not elsewhere classified |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
5443 Florists | 5443 | • Florists | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
5449 Other skilled trades not elsewhere classified | 5449 | • Basket makers (excludes wire goods mfr) • Candle makers • Goldsmiths, silversmiths, jewellers and precious stone workers • Hairpiece and wig makers • Metal engravers • Craft model makers • Musical instrument repairers, makers and tuners • Sign makers and writers • Toy makers and repairers • Other skilled trades not elsewhere classified |
£25,800 (£13.23 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
6111 Early education and childcare assistants | 6121, 6122, 6123 |
• Early education and childcare assistants |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
6114 Childminders |
6122 | • Childminders | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
6117 Playworkers |
3550, 6123 | • Playworkers | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
6129 Animal care services occupations not elsewhere classified | 6139 | • Animal boarding assistants • Animal breeders • Animal groomers • Animal trainers (excludes performing animals) • Animal walkers • Animal welfare workers • Stable workers • Veterinary assistants • Zookeepers • Animal care services occupations not elsewhere classified |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
6134 Houseparents and residential wardens |
6144 | • Foster carers • Residential childcare practitioners • School matrons and houseparents • Residential housing wardens • Houseparents and residential wardens not elsewhere classified |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
6135 Care workers and home carers – Jobs with a working location in England are only eligible in this SOC 2020 occupation code where the sponsor holds registration with the Care Quality Commission and is currently carrying on a regulated activity. Eligibility for Skilled Worker applicants to be sponsored in this SOC 2020 occupation code is restricted, as set out in SW 6.1B of Appendix Skilled Worker. Note: private households or individuals (other than sole traders sponsoring someone to work for their business) cannot sponsor Skilled Worker applicants. |
2442, 3231, 3239, 6141, 6144, 6145 |
• Community support workers • Home care workers • Residential care workers • Care workers and home carers not elsewhere classified |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
6136 Senior care workers – Jobs with a working location in England are only eligible in this SOC 2020 occupation code where the sponsor holds registration with the Care Quality Commission and is currently carrying on a regulated activity. Eligibility for Skilled Worker applicants to be sponsored in this SOC 2020 occupation code is restricted, as set out in SW 6.1B of Appendix Skilled Worker. |
6144, 6146 | • Senior community support workers • Senior home care workers • Senior residential care workers • Senior care workers not elsewhere classified |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
6213 Air travel assistants | 6214 | • Flight attendants • Passenger services assistants • Air travel assistants not elsewhere classified |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
6214 Rail travel assistants | 6215 | • Railway station assistants • Revenue protection officers • Train conductors and guards • Rail travel assistants not elsewhere classified |
£35,400 (£18.15 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
6311 Police community support officers | • Police community support officers |
£31,600 (£16.21 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No | |
7124 Market and street traders and assistants | • Market and street traders and assistants |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No | |
7131 Shopkeepers and owners - retail and wholesale |
1223, 1253, 1254 |
• Antique dealers • Art dealers • Car traders • Newsagents • Retail jewellers • Wholesalers • Wine merchants • Shopkeepers and owners - retail and wholesale not elsewhere classified |
£27,200 (£13.95 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
7132 Sales supervisors - retail and wholesale | 7130 | • Sales supervisors - retail and wholesale | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
7214 Market research interviewers | 7215 | • Field and telephone interviewers • Mystery shoppers • Political canvassers • Traffic enumerators |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
7220 Customer service supervisors | 7220 | • Customer service supervisors | £28,900 (£14.82 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
8113 Chemical and related process operatives | • Chemical and related process operatives |
£26,700 (£13.69 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No | |
8133 Energy plant operatives | 8124 | • Boiler operatives • Compressor operatives • Nuclear decommissioning operatives • Energy plant operatives not elsewhere classified |
£30,100 (£15.44 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
8134 Water and sewerage plant operatives | 8126 | • Water and sewerage distribution operatives • Water treatment operatives • Water and sewerage plant operatives not elsewhere classified |
£31,300 (£16.05 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
8143 Routine inspectors and testers | • Routine inspectors and testers |
£26,600 (£13.64 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No | |
8215 Driving instructors | 8215 | • Cycling instructors • Forklift instructors • Heavy and large vehicle driving instructors • Motorcycle instructors • Passenger carrying vehicle (PCV) and car driving instructors • Driving instructors not elsewhere classified |
£33,300 (£17.08 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
8232 Marine and waterways transport operatives | 8232 | • Marine and waterways transport operatives | £26,300 (£13.49 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
9119 Fishing and other elementary agriculture occupations not elsewhere classified - ONLY the listed job titles are eligible in this SOC 2020 occupation code and ONLY where the job requires the worker to have at least 3 years’ full-time experience in using their skills. This experience must not have been gained through working illegally. |
9119 | • Vent chick sexer • Deckhand on large fishing vessel (9 metres and above) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
9249 Elementary sales occupations not elsewhere classified | • Retail order pickers • Trolley collectors • Elementary sales occupations not elsewhere classified |
£27,500 (£14.10 per hour) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | £25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
Table 2a: Additional eligible SOC 2020 occupation codes and related going rates for Skilled Worker applicants granted permission under the rules in place before 4 April 2024
SOC 2020 occupation code | Equivalent SOC 2010 occupation code(s) |
Examples of related job titles (non exclusive) | Going rate (SW – option F) |
70% of going rate (SW – option J) |
Eligible for PhD points (SW)? |
3214 Complementary health associate professionals | 3219 | • Alexander technique teachers • Aromatherapists • Homeopaths (excludes medically qualified) • Hospital play specialists • Hypnotherapists • Massage therapists • Reflexologists • Reiki healers • Complementary health associate professionals not elsewhere classified |
£31,300 (£16.05 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
6116 Nannies and au pairs | 6122 | • Au pairs • Nannies |
£31,300 (£16.05 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
6232 Caretakers | 1251, 6144 | • Caretakers | £31,300 (£16.05 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
6250 Bed and breakfast and guest house owners and proprietors | 1221 | • Bed and breakfast and guest house owners and proprietors | £31,300 (£16.05 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
7115 Vehicle and parts salespersons and advisers | 3542 | • Vehicle parts advisers • Vehicle sales executives |
£31,300 (£16.05 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
7125 Visual merchandisers and related occupations | 7125 | • Fashion stylists • Visual merchandisers and window dressers • Visual merchandisers and related occupations not elsewhere classified |
£31,300 (£16.05 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
7129 Sales related occupations not elsewhere classified | 3542 | • Demonstrators and product promoters • Hire desk controllers • Sales energy consultants • Sales related occupations not elsewhere classified |
£31,300 (£16.05 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
8115 Metal making and treating process operatives | 5234, 5449 | • Galvanisers and platers • Metal sprayers and powder coaters • Metal making and treating process operatives not elsewhere classified |
£31,300 (£16.05 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
9252 Warehouse operatives | 4134 | • Warehouse operatives | £31,300 (£16.05 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
No |
Table 2b: Additional eligible SOC 2020 occupation codes and related going rates for Global Business Mobility applicants granted permission under the rules in place before 4 April 2024
SOC 2020 occupation code | Equivalent SOC 2010 occupation code(s) |
Examples of related job titles (non-exclusive) | Going rate (GBM – minimum rate) |
70% of going rate (GTR – minimum rate) |
1232 Residential, day and domiciliary care managers and proprietors |
1221, 1184 | • Day care managers • Home care managers • Residential care managers and proprietors • Residential, day and domiciliary care managers and proprietors not elsewhere classified |
£32,000 (£16.41 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
1233 Early education and childcare services proprietors | 2319 | • Early education and childcare services proprietors |
£31,300 (£16.05 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
1243 Managers in logistics | 1133, 1161 | • Managers in logistics | £37,300 (£19.13 per hour) |
£26,100 (£13.38 per hour) |
1259 Managers and proprietors in other services not elsewhere classified | 1139 | • Cleaning and hygiene services managers and proprietors • Educational establishment managers and proprietors • Funeral services and crematorium managers and proprietors • Library managers • Recruitment agency managers and proprietors • Security services managers and proprietors • Managers and proprietors in other services not elsewhere classified |
£33,100 (£16.97 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
2324 Early education and childcare services managers |
2319 | • Early education and childcare services managers |
£31,300 (£16.05 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
3119 Science, engineering and production technicians not elsewhere classified | 3411 | • School technicians • Textile consultants • Science, engineering and production technicians not elsewhere classified |
£31,300 (£16.05 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
3120 CAD, drawing and architectural technicians |
2435 | • Architectural technicians • BIM and CAD technicians • Cartographers • CAD, drawing and architectural technicians not elsewhere classified |
£31,300 (£16.05 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
3133 Database administrators and web content technicians | 2137 | • Database administrators • Web content technicians • Database administrators and web content technicians not elsewhere classified |
£31,300 (£16.05 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
3229 Welfare and housing associate professionals not elsewhere classified | 2129, 2318, 2412 |
• Advocates (excludes solicitor advocates) • Celebrants • Charity workers • Day care officers • Health advisers • Homelessness and housing advice support workers • Mental health project workers • Probation service workers • Student support workers • Victim support workers • Welfare and housing associate professionals not elsewhere classified |
£31,300 (£16.05 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
3411 Artists | 3411 | • Art technicians (excludes education) • Drawing and painting artists • Hand drawn animators • Illustrators (excludes medical and scientific) • Medical and scientific illustrators • Picture restorers • Sculptors • Tattoo and henna artists • Artists not elsewhere classified |
£31,300 (£16.05 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
3412 Authors, writers and translators | 3412 | • Authors • Bloggers • Copywriters • Literary editors • Poets • Script writers • Technical writers (excludes computing) • Translators and interpreters • Authors, writers and translators not elsewhere classified |
£31,300 (£16.05 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
3413 Actors, entertainers and presenters | 3413, 3415, 3416 |
• Actors • Broadcasters, podcasters and presenters • Children's entertainers • Comedians • Disc jockeys • Magicians • Models • Singers • Social media influencers • Actors, entertainers and presenters not elsewhere classified |
£31,300 (£16.05 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
3414 Dancers and choreographers | 3414 | • Choreographers • Dance teachers (excludes educational establishments) • Dancers |
£31,300 (£16.05 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
3421 Interior designers | 2431, 3422 | • Interior designers | £31,300 (£16.05 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
3422 Clothing, fashion and accessories designers | 3422 | • Clothing and fashion consultants • Clothing and fashion designers • Footwear designers • Jewellery designers • Textile designers • Clothing, fashion and accessories designers not elsewhere classified |
£31,300 (£16.05 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
3429 Design occupations not elsewhere classified | 2431, 3422 | • Industrial and product designers • Packaging designers • Performance make-up artists • Set designers • Visual merchandising managers and designers • Design occupations not elsewhere classified |
£31,300 (£16.05 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
3543 Project support officers | 2136, 3534 | • Project support officers | £31,300 (£16.05 per hour) |
£25,000 (£12.82 per hour) |
Table 3a: Additional health and education SOC 2020 occupation codes where going rates are based on national pay scales, for Skilled Worker applicants granted permission under the rules in place before 22 July 2025
SOC 2020 occupation code
|
Equivalent SOC 2010 occupation code(s)
|
Examples of related job titles (non-exclusive) | Going rate (annual) | National pay scale source |
---|---|---|---|---|
3213 Medical and dental technicians |
3218, 5224 | • Cardiographer • Dental hygienist • Dental technician • Medical technical officer • Ocularist • Orthopaedic technician • Radiography assistant practitioner |
See relevant pay band in Table 4 | NHS Agenda for Change: England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland |
3219 Health associate professionals not elsewhere classified |
3218, 3219 | • Antenatal teacher • Diet adviser • Health trainer • Therapist |
See relevant pay band in Table 4 | NHS Agenda for Change: England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland |
3231 Higher level teaching assistants | 6125, 6126 | • Advanced teaching assistant • HLTA • Learning support practitioner • Teaching assistant (qualified) |
General Assistants / Classroom Assistants: £23,656 (FTE £12.26 per hour) Classroom Assistant SEN: £25,147 p.a. (FTE £13.03 per hour) |
NJC pay scales 2024 No available data for Scotland so matching the value of other nations |
6112 Teaching assistants | 3111, 6125 | • Classroom assistant • School assistant • Teaching assistant |
£23,656 (FTE £12.26 per hour) | NJC pay scales 2024 No available data for Scotland so matching the value of other nations |
6113 Educational support assistants |
6126 | • Education support assistant • Learning support assistant • Non-teaching assistant (schools) • Special needs assistant • Support assistant (educational establishments) |
£23,656 (FTE £12.26 per hour) | NJC pay scales 2024 No available data for Scotland so matching the value of other nations |
6131 Nursing auxiliaries and assistants Note: For Skilled Worker purposes, SOC2020 occupation code 6131 only applies to roles in environments where registered nurse roles also exist. |
5431, 6141 | • Auxiliary nurse • Health care assistant (hospital service) • Health care support worker • Nursing assistant • Nursing auxiliary |
See relevant pay band in Table 4 | NHS Agenda for Change: England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland |
6132 Ambulance staff (excluding paramedics) |
• Ambulance care assistant • Ambulance driver • Ambulance service preparation operative • Ambulance technician • Emergency medical technician |
See relevant pay band in Table 4 | NHS Agenda for Change: England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland | |
6133 Dental nurses |
6143 | • Dental assistant • Dental nurse • Dental nurse-receptionist • Dental surgery assistant |
See relevant pay band in Table 4 | NHS Agenda for Change: England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland |
Table 4: Going rates for listed healthcare SOC 2020 occupation codes by administration and band
Band or equivalent | England | Scotland | Wales | Northern Ireland |
Band 3 | £24,071 | £26,869 | £24,433 | £22,816 |
Band 4 | £26,530 | £29,116 | £26,928 | £25,147 |
Band 5 | £29,970 | £31,892 | £30,420 | £28,407 |
Band 6 | £37,338 | £39,912 | £37,898 | £35,392 |
Band 7 | £46,148 | £48,788 | £46,840 | £43,742 |
Band 8a | £53,755 | £60,126 | £54,550 | £50,952 |
Band 8b | £62,215 | £70,986 | £63,150 | £58,972 |
Band 8c | £74,290 | £83,837 | £75,405 | £70,417 |
Band 8d | £88,168 | £99,534 | £89,491 | £83,571 |
Band 9 | £105,385 | £117,732 | £106,967 | £99,891 |
- Correct at time of writing - 1July 2025.

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