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UK Skilled Worker salary requirements & going rates

To be sponsored on a UK Skilled Worker visa you must normally be paid at least the higher of the general salary threshold and the going rate for your specific occupation. Look up the official going rate for any eligible occupation below.

General salary threshold

£41,700

Standard minimum for most new Skilled Worker applicants (per year).

Going rate

Per occupation

An occupation-specific minimum. You must be paid the higher of the two.

SOCOccupationGoing rate
1111Chief executives and senior officials£88,100
1121Production managers and directors in manufacturing£55,000
1122Production managers and directors in construction£53,400
1123Production managers and directors in mining and energy£54,000
1131Financial managers and directors£75,100
1132Marketing, sales and advertising directors£87,300
1133Public relations and communications directors£77,200
1134Purchasing managers and directors£54,700
1135Charitable organisation managers and directors£44,300
1136Human resource managers and directors£52,900
1137Information technology directors£86,000
1139Functional managers and directors not elsewhere classified£74,700
1140Directors in logistics, warehousing and transport£81,400
1162Senior police officers£64,000
1163Senior officers in fire, ambulance, prison and related services£61,600
1171Health services and public health managers and directors£50,300
1172Social services managers and directors£43,000
1241Managers in transport and distribution£44,900
1254Waste disposal and environmental services managers£48,300
1255Managers and directors in the creative industries£44,900
2111Chemical scientists£39,900
2112Biological scientists£40,300
2113Biochemists and biomedical scientists£45,900
2114Physical scientists£54,600
2115Social and humanities scientists£40,400
2119Natural 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.£41,500
2121Civil engineers£50,400
2122Mechanical engineers£46,800
2123Electrical engineers£58,700
2124Electronics engineers£52,000
2125Production and process engineers£45,000
2126Aerospace engineers£52,400
2127Engineering project managers and project engineers£51,900
2129Engineering professionals not elsewhere classified£46,100
2131IT project managers£58,200
2132IT managers£55,000
2133IT business analysts, architects and systems designers£54,900
2134Programmers and software development professionals£54,700
2135Cyber security professionals£48,500
2136IT quality and testing professionals£41,200
2137IT network professionals£45,600
2139Information technology professionals not elsewhere classified£52,300
2141Web design professionals£43,800
2142Graphic and multimedia designers£33,400
2151Conservation professionals£36,000
2152Environment professionals£37,200
2161Research and development (R&D) managers£54,400
2162Other researchers, unspecified discipline£43,600
2240Veterinarians£49,500
2311Higher education teaching professionals£52,600
2317Teachers of English as a foreign language£36,200
2319Teaching professionals not elsewhere classified£33,400
2322Education managers£43,900
2323Education advisers and school inspectors£42,200
2329Other educational professionals not elsewhere classified£40,600
2411Barristers and judges£59,400
2412Solicitors and lawyers£51,600
2419Legal professionals not elsewhere classified£33,400
2421Chartered and certified accountants£49,200
2422Finance and investment analysts and advisers£45,800
2423Taxation experts£48,500
2431Management consultants and business analysts£50,200
2432Marketing and commercial managers£50,100
2433Actuaries, economists and statisticians£55,100
2434Business and related research professionals£38,800
2435Professional/chartered company secretaries£58,200
2439Business, research and administrative professionals not elsewhere classified£56,600
2440Business and financial project management professionals£56,500
2451Architects£47,600
2452Chartered architectural technologists, planning officers and consultants£35,800
2453Quantity surveyors£48,600
2454Chartered surveyors£43,800
2455Construction project managers and related professionals£44,300
2462Probation officers£35,700
2464Youth work professionals£38,000
2469Welfare professionals not elsewhere classified£39,700
2471Librarians£34,800
2472Archivists, conservators and curators£33,400
2481Quality control and planning engineers£41,300
2482Quality assurance and regulatory professionals£48,200
2483Environmental health professionals£40,900
2491Newspaper, periodical and broadcast editors£39,600
2492Newspaper and periodical broadcast journalists and reporters£34,000
2493Public relations professionals£37,000
2494Advertising accounts managers and creative directors£46,000
3415Musicians£37,500
3416Arts officers, producers and directors£38,100
3511Aircraft pilots and air traffic controllers£80,400
3531Brokers£52,400
3534Financial accounts managers£44,700
3556Sales accounts and business development managers£55,200
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