Web Designer (ANZSCO 232414)
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 Web Designer 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).
- Skilled Nominated visa (subclass 190) — Permanent, state or territory nominated · all occupations for the 190
- Skilled Work Regional visa (subclass 491) — Provisional, regional, points-tested · all occupations for the 491
- Skills in Demand visa (subclass 482) — Temporary, employer sponsored · all occupations for the 482
- Employer Nomination Scheme visa (subclass 186) — Permanent, employer sponsored · all occupations for the 186
- Skilled Employer Sponsored Regional visa (subclass 494) — Provisional, regional employer sponsored · all occupations for the 494
- Training visa (subclass 407) — Temporary, workplace training · all occupations for the 407
Skills assessment
A positive skills assessment for Web Designer comes from:
- Vocational Education and Training Assessment Services (VETASSESS) (official site) · our guide to the VETASSESS process
What the assessment actually involves
VETASSESS assesses Web Designer as a Group B occupation: an AQF Bachelor-or-higher qualification, plus one to six years of post-qualification employment depending on the degree's relevance, with the qualification required regardless of pathway. Relevant studies must cover the user-experience side of website design — layout, interaction and visual design — rather than software development, and UI/UX Designer is listed as a suitable job title under this code specifically.
Where these applications come unstuck
Web Designer excludes Web Developer, Graphic Designer, Illustrator and Multimedia Designer by name, and its own page states that a qualification majoring in IT subjects such as computer systems and networks, software design or database and information systems, without core design subjects, will not be assessed as highly relevant — a distinct authority (ACS) assesses the software-development side of web work, and someone whose training and duties sit there is applying under the wrong occupation and the wrong assessing body if they nominate Web Designer.
An honest read on this pathway
Web Designer carries both STSOL and CSOL, reaching 186 and 482 employer sponsorship as well as 190, 407, 491 and 494 — full reach across this family's visa set, matched only by Illustrator and Interior Designer among the eleven codes here, but conditional on the evidence genuinely sitting on the design side of the design/development line VETASSESS draws rather than the software-development side ACS assesses.
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
Whether nominating Web Designer is your best route depends on your points, experience evidence and timing — exactly what a MARA-registered agent works through in an initial consultation. Describe your situation once through Migratio and compare real consultation quotes from registered agents, free.
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