Going rates for the Skilled Worker visa, code by code
Going rates run from £33,400 to £88,100 a year across the 91 higher skilled codes. Find yours in the table below or test a salary against it.
Compare a salary with the going rate of its code
Minimum salary for this job
£55,100
Your salary is £3,100 below the threshold.
| Points option A | £41,700 floor |
| Going rate (full time) | £55,100 |
| Going rate per hour | £28.26 |
| Your pay per hour | £26.67 |
| Visa fee, up to 3 years (outside the UK) | £819 |
| Health surcharge, 3 years | £3,105 |
Higher skilled occupation (Table 1): eligible.
Threshold in each situation
| Standard rate | £55,100 |
| New entrant (under 26, recent student or graduate, in training) | £38,600 |
| PhD in a STEM subject relevant to the job | £44,100 |
| PhD in another subject relevant to the job | £49,600 |
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Published by Radif Partners · How we calculate · Home Office fees of 8 October 2026, rules checked 13 October 2026
A going rate is the minimum annual pay the Home Office accepts for one occupation code, set from the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings and printed in Appendix Skilled Occupations. For new applicants, Table 1 uses the median earnings of each occupation, with a minimum of £17.13 an hour, for a 37.5-hour week. The 91 higher skilled codes in that table range from £33,400 to £88,100 (code 1111, chief executives and senior officials). Workers first sponsored before 4 April 2024 can still use Table 2, built on the lower 25th percentile. Next to each going rate the table prints the 90%, 80% and 70% figures used by the PhD and new entrant options, already rounded and raised to the floor. A going rate is only half the test: the job must also pay £41,700 on the standard route, which settles the matter for the 26 codes whose going rate is lower. The calculator above pro-rates any rate to your hours.
Median or 25th percentile: two tables, two groups
Appendix Skilled Occupations publishes several sets of rates, and the one you are measured against depends on when your Skilled Worker journey began. Table 1 is the current table. Its going rates come from the median earnings of each occupation in the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, so half of the people doing that job in the UK earn more and half earn less. Table 2 carries the older yardstick, the 25th percentile, which sits well below the median.
Table 2 applies through options F to J of Appendix Skilled Worker to people granted permission under the rules before 4 April 2024 who have held Skilled Worker permission without a break since, for applications made before 4 April 2030. For a statistician (code 2433) the gap is wide: £55,100 on the median table against £40,700 on the transitional one. Medium skilled codes have their own pair of tables, 1a and 2aa, for jobs on a shortage list or held since before 22 July 2025; a logistics manager (code 1243, Table 1a) has a going rate of £44,900.
How the printed rates are built
Every rate in Tables 1 to 2a assumes 37.5 hours a week and is pro-rated to the hours on the certificate of sponsorship. Each also has an hourly minimum of £17.13: where the survey figure would fall below it, the floor replaces it, which is why several codes show exactly £33,400. The appendix adds that when £17.13 an hour works out higher than 70%, 80% or 90% of a rate, that floor is treated as the discounted rate anyway. You can see it on social and humanities scientists (code 2115): a going rate of £40,400, but a 70% column of £33,400 rather than a straight 70%.
Two more details matter in practice. At settlement only the full going rate column applies, so a discount you used on entry does not carry into an application for indefinite leave. And the code drives the rate, not your job title: the SOC code checker helps match duties to a code.
All 91 higher skilled codes in Table 1
The table lists each Table 1 code with the going rate used for a standard application (option A) and for an Immigration Salary List job (option D), the 70% rate used by new entrants and postdoctoral posts (option E), and whether the code accepts PhD points. 82 of the 91 codes accept them. Rates are annual for 37.5 hours; the threshold for option A is still the higher of the going rate and £41,700.
| Code | Occupation | Going rate | 70% rate | PhD points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1111 | Chief executives and senior officials | £88,100 | £61,600 | Yes |
| 1121 | Production managers and directors in manufacturing | £55,000 | £38,500 | Yes |
| 1122 | Production managers and directors in construction | £53,400 | £37,400 | Yes |
| 1123 | Production managers and directors in mining and energy | £54,000 | £37,800 | Yes |
| 1131 | Financial managers and directors | £75,100 | £52,600 | Yes |
| 1132 | Marketing, sales and advertising directors | £87,300 | £61,100 | Yes |
| 1133 | Public relations and communications directors | £77,200 | £54,000 | Yes |
| 1134 | Purchasing managers and directors | £54,700 | £38,300 | Yes |
| 1135 | Charitable organisation managers and directors | £44,300 | £33,400 | Yes |
| 1136 | Human resource managers and directors | £52,900 | £37,100 | Yes |
| 1137 | Information technology directors | £86,000 | £60,200 | Yes |
| 1139 | Functional managers and directors not elsewhere classified | £74,700 | £52,300 | Yes |
| 1140 | Directors in logistics, warehousing and transport | £81,400 | £57,000 | Yes |
| 1162 | Senior police officers | £64,000 | £44,800 | Yes |
| 1163 | Senior officers in fire, ambulance, prison and related services | £61,600 | £43,100 | Yes |
| 1171 | Health services and public health managers and directors | £50,300 | £35,200 | Yes |
| 1172 | Social services managers and directors | £43,000 | £33,400 | Yes |
| 1241 | Managers in transport and distribution | £44,900 | £33,400 | No |
| 1254 | Waste disposal and environmental services managers | £48,300 | £33,800 | No |
| 1255 | Managers and directors in the creative industries | £44,900 | £33,400 | No |
| 2111 | Chemical scientists | £39,900 | £33,400 | Yes |
| 2112 | Biological scientists | £40,300 | £33,400 | Yes |
| 2113 | Biochemists and biomedical scientists | £45,900 | £33,400 | Yes |
| 2114 | Physical scientists | £54,600 | £38,200 | Yes |
| 2115 | Social and humanities scientists | £40,400 | £33,400 | 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. | £41,500 | £33,400 | Yes |
| 2121 | Civil engineers | £50,400 | £35,200 | Yes |
| 2122 | Mechanical engineers | £46,800 | £33,400 | Yes |
| 2123 | Electrical engineers | £58,700 | £41,100 | Yes |
| 2124 | Electronics engineers | £52,000 | £36,400 | Yes |
| 2125 | Production and process engineers | £45,000 | £33,400 | Yes |
| 2126 | Aerospace engineers | £52,400 | £36,700 | Yes |
| 2127 | Engineering project managers and project engineers | £51,900 | £36,300 | Yes |
| 2129 | Engineering professionals not elsewhere classified | £46,100 | £33,400 | Yes |
| 2131 | IT project managers | £58,200 | £40,700 | Yes |
| 2132 | IT managers | £55,000 | £38,500 | Yes |
| 2133 | IT business analysts, architects and systems designers | £54,900 | £38,400 | Yes |
| 2134 | Programmers and software development professionals | £54,700 | £38,300 | Yes |
| 2135 | Cyber security professionals | £48,500 | £34,000 | Yes |
| 2136 | IT quality and testing professionals | £41,200 | £33,400 | Yes |
| 2137 | IT network professionals | £45,600 | £33,400 | Yes |
| 2139 | Information technology professionals not elsewhere classified | £52,300 | £36,600 | Yes |
| 2141 | Web design professionals | £43,800 | £33,400 | Yes |
| 2142 | Graphic and multimedia designers | £33,400 | £33,400 | Yes |
| 2151 | Conservation professionals | £36,000 | £33,400 | Yes |
| 2152 | Environment professionals | £37,200 | £33,400 | Yes |
| 2161 | Research and development (R&D) managers | £54,400 | £38,100 | Yes |
| 2162 | Other researchers, unspecified discipline | £43,600 | £33,400 | Yes |
| 2240 | Veterinarians | £49,500 | £34,600 | Yes |
| 2311 | Higher education teaching professionals | £52,600 | £36,800 | Yes |
| 2317 | Teachers of English as a foreign language | £36,200 | £33,400 | Yes |
| 2319 | Teaching professionals not elsewhere classified | £33,400 | £33,400 | Yes |
| 2322 | Education managers | £43,900 | £33,400 | Yes |
| 2323 | Education advisers and school inspectors | £42,200 | £33,400 | Yes |
| 2329 | Other educational professionals not elsewhere classified | £40,600 | £33,400 | Yes |
| 2411 | Barristers and judges | £59,400 | £41,600 | Yes |
| 2412 | Solicitors and lawyers | £51,600 | £36,100 | Yes |
| 2419 | Legal professionals not elsewhere classified | £33,400 | £33,400 | Yes |
| 2421 | Chartered and certified accountants | £49,200 | £34,500 | Yes |
| 2422 | Finance and investment analysts and advisers | £45,800 | £33,400 | Yes |
| 2423 | Taxation experts | £48,500 | £34,000 | Yes |
| 2431 | Management consultants and business analysts | £50,200 | £35,100 | Yes |
| 2432 | Marketing and commercial managers | £50,100 | £35,000 | Yes |
| 2433 | Actuaries, economists and statisticians | £55,100 | £38,600 | Yes |
| 2434 | Business and related research professionals | £38,800 | £33,400 | Yes |
| 2435 | Professional/chartered company secretaries | £58,200 | £40,700 | Yes |
| 2439 | Business, research and administrative professionals not elsewhere classified | £56,600 | £39,600 | Yes |
| 2440 | Business and financial project management professionals | £56,500 | £39,500 | Yes |
| 2451 | Architects | £47,600 | £33,400 | Yes |
| 2452 | Chartered architectural technologists, planning officers and consultants | £35,800 | £33,400 | Yes |
| 2453 | Quantity surveyors | £48,600 | £34,100 | Yes |
| 2454 | Chartered surveyors | £43,800 | £33,400 | Yes |
| 2455 | Construction project managers and related professionals | £44,300 | £33,400 | Yes |
| 2462 | Probation officers | £35,700 | £33,400 | Yes |
| 2464 | Youth work professionals | £38,000 | £33,400 | Yes |
| 2469 | Welfare professionals not elsewhere classified | £39,700 | £33,400 | Yes |
| 2471 | Librarians | £34,800 | £33,400 | Yes |
| 2472 | Archivists, conservators and curators | £33,400 | £33,400 | Yes |
| 2481 | Quality control and planning engineers | £41,300 | £33,400 | Yes |
| 2482 | Quality assurance and regulatory professionals | £48,200 | £33,800 | Yes |
| 2483 | Environmental health professionals | £40,900 | £33,400 | Yes |
| 2491 | Newspaper, periodical and broadcast editors | £39,600 | £33,400 | Yes |
| 2492 | Newspaper and periodical broadcast journalists and reporters | £34,000 | £33,400 | Yes |
| 2493 | Public relations professionals | £37,000 | £33,400 | Yes |
| 2494 | Advertising accounts managers and creative directors | £46,000 | £33,400 | Yes |
| 3415 | Musicians | £37,500 | £33,400 | No |
| 3416 | Arts officers, producers and directors | £38,100 | £33,400 | No |
| 3511 | Aircraft pilots and air traffic controllers | £80,400 | £56,300 | No |
| 3531 | Brokers | £52,400 | £36,700 | No |
| 3534 | Financial accounts managers | £44,700 | £33,400 | No |
| 3556 | Sales accounts and business development managers | £55,200 | £38,600 | No |
A going rate is a minimum, not a market salary, and it moves when the Home Office updates the appendix with new survey data. Your threshold for a renewal is worked out on the rates in force on the date you apply, so a rate that was met three years ago may have risen since. The salary threshold page shows how hours, the 48-hour cap and pay periods change the figure, and the appendix itself prints the hourly equivalent of every rate.