ICT Managers nec (ANZSCO 135199)

On the Short-term Skilled Occupation List and Core Skills Occupation List

From the official Home Affairs skilled occupation lists, as at 2026-08-12. Lists change at each government update — always confirm on the official page before acting.

Which lists is ICT Managers nec on?

STSOL — Short-term Skilled Occupation List. Occupations on the STSOL can access state-nominated and regional skilled visas (190/491), but not the Skilled Independent 189.

CSOL — Core Skills Occupation List. The employer-sponsorship list — occupations on the CSOL can be nominated for the Skills in Demand visa (subclass 482) and the Employer Nomination Scheme 186.

Visas this occupation can access

Being on a list makes the occupation nominatable for these visas — each visa still has its own requirements (points, age, English, a positive skills assessment, and for sponsored visas a willing employer or state).

Processing priority

ICT Managers nec isn't in any of the ANZSCO groups that Directions 121 and 122 list for the priority sectors. Some of the first group is defined by the job rather than the code: a nominated position directly involved in agriculture, aquaculture or fishing, one that directly supports mining, oil and gas or coal production, or one related to defence. Otherwise the application is processed after the priority sectors. For the permanent and provisional skilled visas, applicants who were in Australia when they applied come next, then those who applied from outside Australia. For the 482, Specialist Skills stream applications come before both.

Priority changes the order in which lodged applications are looked at, not whether they are granted. Who is invited to apply through SkillSelect is decided separately. See all 202 occupations in the priority sectors.

Skills assessment

A positive skills assessment for ICT Managers nec comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

ACS assesses this code under the same four-pathway Migration Skills Assessment. It is the residual management code in this family: ACS describes it as planning, organising, directing, controlling and coordinating the acquisition, development, maintenance and use of computer and telecommunication systems within organisations — covering management functions that don't fit Chief Information Officer's organisation-wide strategic brief or ICT Project Manager's project-scoped one, such as day-to-day IT operations or infrastructure management. General Skills suits experienced degree-holders; RPL (six years' experience, two Project Reports, two Professional Currency evidence items) suits those without a relevant tertiary qualification.

Where these applications come unstuck

Being the 'everything else' code makes this one easy to under- or over-claim. ACS's published duty text opens with the same verb pattern shared with Chief Information Officer and ICT Project Manager, and copying that text into a reference letter is explicitly rejected — the letter needs to describe actual day-to-day systems-management duties rather than organisation-wide strategy or defined project delivery, to genuinely support this specific code.

An honest read on this pathway

This code carries STSOL and CSOL, reaching the Employer Nomination Scheme, state nomination, temporary work streams, the Skills in Demand visa, regional state nomination and the Skilled Employer Sponsored Regional visa — the same reach as ICT Project Manager, and broader than Chief Information Officer's published list despite CIO sitting on the higher MLTSSL. No labour-agreement or DAMA source was found naming this code specifically in the research pass behind this page; that absence from the one list checked is not evidence of exclusion from every regional or industry agreement nationally, only that this pass did not find it there. Check current DAMA occupation lists directly for your region.

Assembling an ACS application? ACS wants employment evidence that lines up exactly with the dates and duties you claim elsewhere. The Skilled Visa EOI Organiser keeps your claims consistent across the skills assessment, EOI and Form 80 — inconsistencies between them are a common cause of delay.

Talk it through with a registered agent

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