Immigration Salary List: jobs, salary rules and fees
A job on the Immigration Salary List needs £33,400 instead of £41,700, but still the full going rate, and pays a lower fee of £628 for up to three years.
Check a listed job against its salary rule
Minimum salary for this job
£33,400
Your salary of £34,000 meets it, with £600 to spare.
| Points option D | £33,400 floor |
| Going rate (full time) | £33,400 |
| Going rate per hour | £17.13 |
| Your pay per hour | £17.44 |
| Visa fee, up to 3 years (outside the UK) | £628 |
| Health surcharge, 3 years | £3,105 |
On the Immigration Salary List in England until 31 December 2026.
Threshold in each situation
| Standard rate | £41,700 |
| Immigration Salary List | £33,400 |
| New entrant (under 26, recent student or graduate, in training) | £33,400 |
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Published by Radif Partners · How we calculate · Home Office fees of 8 October 2026, rules checked 13 October 2026
The Immigration Salary List, in its own appendix of the Immigration Rules, names jobs that can be sponsored on easier terms. It gives no discount on the going rate: a listed job must still pay 100% of the going rate for its code, but the general floor drops from £41,700 to £33,400 (option D of Appendix Skilled Worker). It also opens medium skilled codes from Table 1a that would otherwise be closed to new applicants, and it lowers the visa fee for you and your family to £628 for up to three years or £1,235 for longer, inside or outside the UK. The list has 25 entries. Some cover every job in a code, others only named job types, and 3 apply only in part of the UK. Most entries must be used on a certificate issued before 31 December 2026. A carpenter (code 5316) qualifies on £33,400.
What a listed job changes, and what it does not
Being on the list does three things. It lowers the salary floor, it can make a medium skilled code eligible, and it cuts the fee. It does not lower the going rate. The going rate is applied in full, pro-rated to your hours, exactly as for a job off the list.
Two examples show the effect. A biological scientist (code 2112, Table 1, listed for all jobs) has a going rate of £40,300. Off the list the threshold would be £41,700; on it, the threshold is the going rate alone, £40,300. A carpenter or joiner (code 5316, Table 1a) could not be sponsored at all as a new applicant without the list; on it, the threshold is £33,400.
The fee saving is real. A single applicant from abroad pays £628 instead of £819 for up to three years, and the reduced fee applies to each partner or child applying as a dependant. The immigration health surcharge is unchanged. The Skilled Worker cost page sets the two side by side.
Read the conditions on each entry
An entry is more than a code. Many cover only named job types, such as archaeologists within social and humanities scientists, or demand three years of experience gained lawfully. Each entry also says in which nations of the UK it applies, so a boat builder listed in Scotland only gets no help for a job in England. The job must be based in a nation where it is listed. Rule SW 6.2(c) adds that claiming list points under a code that is not the most appropriate one is a ground for refusal.
| Code | Occupation | Jobs covered | Where | Certificate before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1212 | Managers and proprietors in forestry, fishing and related services | only “fishing boat masters” | Scotland | 31 December 2026 |
| 1232 | Residential, day and domiciliary care managers and proprietors | all jobs | All four nations | 31 December 2026 |
| 2111 | Chemical scientists | only jobs in the nuclear industry | Scotland | 31 December 2026 |
| 2112 | Biological scientists | all jobs | All four nations | 31 December 2026 |
| 2115 | Social and humanities scientists | only archaeologists | All four nations | 31 December 2026 |
| 2142 | Graphic and multimedia designers | all jobs | All four nations | 31 December 2026 |
| 3111 | Laboratory technicians | only jobs requiring 3 or more years’ related on-the-job experience. This experience must not have been gained through working illegally. | All four nations | 31 December 2026 |
| 3212 | Pharmaceutical technicians | all jobs | All four nations | 31 December 2026 |
| 3411 | Artists | all jobs | All four nations | 31 December 2026 |
| 3414 | Dancers and choreographers | only skilled classical ballet dancers or skilled contemporary dancers who meet the standard required by internationally recognised UK ballet or contemporary dance companies. The company must be endorsed as being internationally recognised by a UK industry body such as the Arts Councils (of England, Scotland or Wales). | All four nations | 31 December 2026 |
| 3415 | Musicians | only skilled orchestral musicians who are leaders, principals, sub-principals or numbered string positions, and who meet the standard required by internationally recognised UK orchestras. The orchestra must be a full member of the Association of British Orchestras. | All four nations | 31 December 2026 |
| 3416 | Arts officers, producers and directors | all jobs | All four nations | 31 December 2026 |
| 5119 | Agricultural and fishing trades not elsewhere classified | only jobs in the fishing industry | All four nations | 31 December 2026 |
| 5213 | Welding trades | only high integrity pipe welders, where the job requires 3 or more years’ related on-the-job experience. This experience must not have been gained through working illegally. | All four nations | 31 December 2026 |
| 5235 | Boat and ship builders and repairers | all jobs | Scotland | 31 December 2026 |
| 5312 | Stonemasons and related trades | all jobs | All four nations | 31 December 2026 |
| 5313 | Bricklayers | all jobs | All four nations | 31 December 2026 |
| 5314 | Roofers, roof tilers and slaters | all jobs | All four nations | 31 December 2026 |
| 5316 | Carpenters and joiners | all jobs | All four nations | 31 December 2026 |
| 5319 | Construction and building trades not elsewhere classified | only retrofitters | All four nations | 31 December 2026 |
| 6129 | Animal care services occupations not elsewhere classified | only racing grooms, stallion handlers, stud grooms, stud hands, stud handlers and work riders | All four nations | 31 December 2026 |
| 6131 | Nursing auxiliaries and assistants Note: For Skilled Worker purposes, SOC 2020 occupation code 6131 only applies to roles in environments where registered nurse or other registered healthcare professional roles also exist. | all jobs Note: For Skilled Worker purposes, SOC 2020 occupation code 6131 only applies to roles in environments where registered nurse or other registered healthcare professional roles also exist. | All four nations | 31 December 2026 |
| 6135 | Care workers and home carers | all jobs, except 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. Private households or individuals (other than sole traders sponsoring someone to work for their business) cannot sponsor Skilled Worker applicants. | All four nations | 22 July 2028 |
| 6136 | Senior care workers | all jobs, except 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. | All four nations | 22 July 2028 |
| 9119 | Fishing and other elementary agriculture occupations not elsewhere classified | only deckhands on large fishing vessels (9 metres and above) 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. | All four nations | 31 December 2026 |
Care worker codes 6135 and 6136 remain listed, but rule SW 6.1B closes them to applications from abroad, and in England the sponsor must be registered with the Care Quality Commission; the care worker page explains what remains open.
Families, removal dates and changing jobs
18 of the 25 entries are medium skilled codes from Table 1a. A worker sponsored in one of those through the list cannot bring a partner or children under the current rules, because dependants need a job in Table 1, 2 or 3, unless the worker was already sponsored in a medium skilled job before 22 July 2025 or a child was born in the UK. Listed jobs in Table 1, such as biological scientists, keep the normal family rights.
The removal dates in the list are 31 December 2026 and 22 July 2028. If your job leaves the list while you stay in it with the same sponsor, you do not need to apply again, and rule SW 11.2 lets you extend in that same job with that same sponsor on the list terms. Moving from a listed job to one that is not listed needs a fresh application, judged on the standard rules. The source is Appendix Immigration Salary List; temporary shortage jobs are on the Temporary Shortage List page.