Hi
I raised a request end of Feb to Home Office requesting information and received a response yesterday.
My Question: Information Requested
Please can you kindly provide the number of Tier 2 restricted certificate of sponsorship's (RCOS) issued to each SOC code for the month of February 2018 in electronic format or any format which saves you cost and time.
As based on the past few months its concerning that the cut off to acquire a RCOS has been increased to 46 points based on the info on the gov.uk website.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publicati ... ponsorship I hope you are aware of the fact that it’s an issue now to recruit qualified IT professionals with a salary less than 50k annually, who do NOT fall under the Rcos shortage occupation category like nurses. We might need to request to exclude jobs like nurses & health care jobs from the RCOS monthly allocation. As based on the news from NHS due to the shortage of staff it looks like they would need to recruit approx 35000 nurses from overseas (India, Philippines etc) in the future. if this issue is not looked into as a matter of concern UK will have a shortage of IT skilled professionals in the near future.
Please provide the number of RCOS issued to each SOC code based on that we can foresee the future recruitment within each month otherwise it feels we are speculating that the cut off to get a rcos will reduce as each month goes by.
Response:
SOC
Count
2231 Nurses - Band 5 and equivalent
328
2119 Natural and social science professionals not elsewhere classified
165
2211 Medical practitioners - Speciality registrar (StR) and equivalent
111
2231 Nurses - Supervised practice nurses (Band 3 and equivalent)
103
2136 Programmers and software development professionals
96
2135 IT business analysts, architects and systems designers
43
2423 Management consultants and business analysts
42
2211 Medical practitioners - Speciality doctor and equivalent
39
2126 Design and development engineers
34
3534 Finance and investment analysts and advisers
31
3545 Sales accounts and business development managers
29
2311 Higher education teaching professionals
26
2217 Medical radiographers
23
3512 Aircraft pilots and flight engineers
20
2211 Medical practitioners - Consultant and equivalent
17
2211 Medical practitioners - Foundation year 2 (F2) and equivalent
17
3213 Paramedics
15
1131 Financial managers and directors
12
1132 Marketing and sales directors
12
2413 Solicitors
12
2112 Biological scientists and biochemists
11
3416 Arts officers, producers and directors
11
2133 IT specialist managers
10
2419 Legal professionals not elsewhere classified
8
2421 Chartered and certified accountants
8
2424 Business and financial project management professionals
8
1133 Purchasing managers and directors
7
2127 Production and process engineers
7
2134 IT project and programme managers
7
2113 Physical scientists
6
2129 Engineering professionals not elsewhere classified
6
2231 Nurses - Band 6 and equivalent
6
3411 Artists
6
5434 Chefs
6
1115 Chief executives and senior officials
5
1135 Human resource managers and directors
5
2123 Electrical engineers - Power system, control or protection engineer in electricity industry
5
2124 Electronics engineers
5
2139 Information technology and telecommunications professionals not elsewhere classified
5
2231 Nurses - Band 7 and equivalent
5
2121 Civil engineers
4
2137 Web design and development professionals
4
2150 Research and development managers
4
3535 Taxation experts
4
1134 Advertising and public relations directors
3
2429 Business, research and administrative professionals not elsewhere classified
3
3532 Brokers
3
3538 Financial accounts managers
3
1121 Production managers and directors in manufacturing
2
2111 Chemical scientists
2
2122 Mechanical engineers
2
2211 Medical practitioners - Foundation year 1 (F1) and equivalent
2
2219 Health professionals not elsewhere classified - Band 7 & equivalent
2
2314 Secondary education teaching professionals - combined science (with element of physics)
2
2314 Secondary education teaching professionals - mathematics
2
2425 Actuaries, economists and statisticians
2
2473 Advertising accounts managers and creative directors
2
1123 Production managers and directors in mining and energy
1
1136 Information technology and telecommunications directors
1
1139 Functional managers and directors not elsewhere classified
1
1150 Financial institution managers and directors
1
2216 Veterinarians
1
2317 Senior professionals of educational establishments
1
2426 Business and related research professionals
1
2433 Quantity surveyors
1
2436 Construction project managers and related professionals
1
2442 Social workers - Band 7 & equivalent
1
2462 Quality assurance and regulatory professionals
1
2471 Journalists, newspaper and periodical editors
1
3415 Musicians
1
3421 Graphic designers
1
