Can early education and childcare services managers get a Skilled Worker visa? (SOC 2324)

Appendix Skilled Occupations lists this code in Table 1a, and the gov.uk eligible occupations table labels it “Medium Skilled”.

Tables 1a and 3a are for medium-skilled occupations (RQF levels 3 to 5). Since 22 July 2025, sponsors may only use them for someone granted Skilled Worker permission under the rules in place before 22 July 2025 who has held it continuously since, unless the job is on the Temporary Shortage List or the Immigration Salary List (Appendix Skilled Worker SW 6.1). This code is on neither list.

Appendix Skilled Occupations gives a going rate of £33,400, alongside the £41,700 general threshold, and a lower going rate of £25,000, with a £31,300 floor, for people first granted Skilled Worker permission under the rules before 4 April 2024 who apply before 4 April 2030. Which of these applies depends on the person's own visa history.

Examples from the Immigration Rules and the gov.uk eligible occupations table. They are examples, not the full list: a job belongs in this code because of its duties, whatever it is called.

• Early education and childcare services managers

The employer does, not you and not GoRizzume. The sponsor picks the code when it assigns the Certificate of Sponsorship, and Appendix Skilled Worker (SW 6.2) lets the Home Office refuse the application if it has reasonable grounds to believe a less appropriate code was chosen because the right one is not eligible, has a higher going rate, or is not on the Immigration Salary List. The duties decide the code, not the job title.

So treat this page as the rules for code 2324, not a verdict on any particular offer. Ask the employer which code they will use, then check that code. If you are unsure, the CASCOT coding tool suggests codes for a job title, and gov.uk says to make sure the description matches what you will actually do.

• 2321 Head teachers and principalsEligible
• 2322 Education managersEligible
• 2323 Education advisers and school inspectorsEligible
• 2329 Other educational professionals not elsewhere classifiedEligible

Codes in the same part of the classification that a new applicant can be sponsored in today. They are only relevant if the actual job fits one of them: re-labelling a job does not work (see above).

• 2319 Teaching professionals not elsewhere classifiedEligible
• 2317 Teachers of English as a foreign languageEligible
• 2316 Special and additional needs education teaching professionalsEligible
• 2315 Nursery education teaching professionalsEligible
• 2314 Primary education teaching professionalsEligible
• 2313 Secondary education teaching professionalsEligible

Only an employer on the Home Office register of licensed sponsors can sponsor a Skilled Worker visa, and a licence means they can sponsor eligible roles, not that every job comes with sponsorship.

• Search the register of licensed sponsors
• Check one employer's licence, free
• Work out the salary for a specific offer
• Every occupation code and its answer
• Schools, colleges and education providers with a licence in London (1,091)
• Schools, colleges and education providers with a licence in Birmingham (105)
• Schools, colleges and education providers with a licence in Manchester (80)
• Schools, colleges and education providers with a licence in Cambridge (65)

These employers hold licences for the roles they can sponsor. A licence does not make this occupation eligible.