Skilled Worker visa job and salary checker

It is the yearly pay the Home Office sets for each occupation code, based on a 37.5-hour week. You must be paid at least the going rate for your job, adjusted to your hours, and at least the fixed minimum for your route. Whichever is higher is the figure you need.

Choose "Extending my Skilled Worker visa" (or "Changing job or employer") and then "Before 4 April 2024". You get the lower rates: the higher of £31,300 and the lower going rate for your job. You can also stay in a medium skilled job and keep your dependants, as long as you have held the visa without a gap. The lower rates apply to applications made before 4 April 2030.

Yes, but the fixed minimum does not shrink with your hours. On the standard route you still need £41,700 a year, even at 20 hours a week. Only the going rate is adjusted for hours. Enter your hours and salary above and the tool tells you in red if the pay falls short.

Only the pay for the first 48 hours counts towards the fixed minimum, but the job's going rate is scaled to all your hours. So long hours make the pay you need higher, not lower. For example, at 60 hours a week the standard fixed minimum of £41,700 becomes £41,700 × 60 ÷ 48 = £52,125.

Often, yes. Nurses, doctors and other NHS roles use national pay scales, which the tool shows when you pick the NHS band. Ten other codes, including care workers, laboratory technicians and biomedical scientists, have lower figures on the Health and Care Worker visa. The tool shows these in a separate box.

In a higher skilled job, yes. In a medium skilled job, including every job on the temporary shortage list, only if you were sponsored before 22 July 2025 and have held the visa ever since. For care workers the cut-off is 11 March 2024. Children born in the UK are an exception. Each result above shows the answer for that job.

A list of 52 medium skilled jobs, such as data analysts, electricians and welders, that can still be sponsored for new applications. It gives no salary discount of its own, although the new entrant and PhD discounts can still apply, and people sponsored through it cannot bring dependants. Certificates of sponsorship must be issued before 31 December 2026, and the immigration salary list is due to end on the same date, except for care workers and senior care workers, who can be sponsored from inside the UK until 22 July 2028. In July 2026 the Migration Advisory Committee recommended a shorter list of 28 jobs, each for 18 months, but the government has not confirmed it yet. This tool will be updated when it does.

No. MadyHR.ai is independent of the Home Office. The tool reads the published GOV.UK tables and links to them so you can check every figure. It is a guide, not immigration advice, and the rules change often. Confirm anything important on GOV.UK or with a regulated immigration adviser.