Market Research Analyst (ANZSCO 225112)

On the Regional 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 Market Research Analyst on?

ROL — Regional Occupation List. Occupations on the ROL are limited to the regional provisional visas — mainly the Skilled Work Regional 491 and Skilled Employer Sponsored Regional 494.

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

Market Research Analyst 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 Market Research Analyst comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

Market Research Analyst carries ROL only, reaching three visa subclasses — the graduate visa and both regional streams — with no employer sponsorship and no state nomination, the narrowest reach in the marketing/advertising/PR cluster after Content Creator (Marketing). Its own page excludes Marketing Specialist, Advertising Specialist, Sales and Marketing Manager, Organisation and Methods Analyst and Economist by name — the widest exclusion list of the cluster's five codes. No suitable-occupations list was found on its own page in this research pass.

Where these applications come unstuck

The absence of a published suitable-occupations list, combined with the wide exclusion list, makes this code harder to self-check against than its cluster siblings — an applicant has a clear list of what this occupation is not, without the usual companion list of accepted job titles that confirms what it is. Because it sits on ROL only, an applicant hoping this code could support an employer-sponsored 482 or 186 application is working against a ceiling the visa list itself sets, regardless of the strength of the underlying research role.

An honest read on this pathway

This is the narrowest-reaching genuinely research-focused code in its cluster, and its wide exclusion list means it should not be treated as a fallback for marketing or advertising work that doesn't fit those specific codes — VETASSESS names both of them as explicitly excluded here. For someone whose work is genuinely data-and-insights research rather than campaign delivery or brand strategy, it is the correctly narrow occupation, just with a correspondingly narrow visa reach.

VETASSESS assesses qualifications and employment separately. Both need documentation that agrees with itself. The Employment History Builder and Document Vault organise each trail before you lodge.

Talk it through with a registered agent

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