ICT Business Development Manager (ANZSCO 225212)

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 Business Development Manager 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).

Skills assessment

A positive skills assessment for ICT Business Development Manager comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

ICT Business Development Manager sits on STSOL and CSOL, reaching six visa subclasses, identical to its two ICT sales siblings. Its own page excludes ICT Account Manager and ICT Sales Representative by name, plus ICT Sales Assistant, Sales Representative (Business Services) and Technical Sales Representatives nec — the same cross-referencing pattern the other two ICT codes carry from their own side, confirming a fully closed trio rather than a specific-versus-generic hierarchy.

Where these applications come unstuck

The "manager" in the title can read as a seniority marker rather than a distinct function, which risks an applicant assuming this code simply sits above ICT Account Manager or ICT Sales Representative in a hierarchy. VETASSESS's exclusion wording treats it as a separate function instead — new-business and partnership development, distinct from managing existing accounts or direct sales execution — so evidence should be built around genuinely business-development duties, not general seniority.

An honest read on this pathway

With identical visa reach across all three ICT sales-and-development codes, the only real question worth spending time on is which function the actual role performed. This code's specific exclusion of Technical Sales Representatives nec is also worth noting: unlike the general sales-representative cluster, where the nec code reaches double the visas of its named siblings, here the nec exclusion carries no such visa-breadth trade-off, since ICT Business Development Manager already matches the nec code's own six-subclass 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.

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