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Skilled Worker visa: eligible salary if you're under 26, studying, training or in a postdoctoral role

Check the minimum annual salary you'll need to be paid on a Skilled Worker or Health and Care visa if you're under 26, studying, training or in a postdoctoral role.

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UK Visas and Immigration
Published
1 December 2020
Last updated
157 MayAugust 2023 — See all updates

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Skilled Worker visa: minimum salary if you’re under 26, studying, training or in a postdoctoral role

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Check the minimum annual salary you’ll need to be paid to qualify for a Skilled Worker or Health and Care visa if one of the following applies:

  • you’re under 26 on the date you apply
  • you’re currently in the UK on a Student visa - or you have been in the last 2 years - studying at bachelor’s degree level or above
  • you’re currently in the UK on a Graduate Entrepreneur visa
  • you’ll be working towards a recognised qualification in a UK regulated profession
  • you’ll be working towards full registration or chartered status in the job you’re being sponsored for
Published 1 December 2020
Last updated 157 MayAugust 2023 + show all updates

  1. Prison service officers (below principal officer), occupation code 3314, added to the list of eligible occupations. Dryliners added to the related job titles for occupation code 5321.

  2. Updated salary information - the annual salaries are now based on a 37.5-hour working week (previously a 39-hour working week).

  3. Updated the minimum salary for each occupation.

  4. Updated to add fishing and other elementary agriculture occupations not elsewhere classified to the list.

  5. First published.