ICT Business Analyst (ANZSCO 261111)

On the Medium and Long-term Strategic Skills 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 Analyst on?

MLTSSL — Medium and Long-term Strategic Skills List. The widest list — occupations on the MLTSSL can access the points-tested permanent skilled visas including the Skilled Independent visa (subclass 189), which needs no state nomination or employer.

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 Analyst comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

ACS assesses ICT Business Analyst against the same qualification-or-RPL structure as other ICT occupations, but the Key Areas of Knowledge for this code centre on requirements analysis, business process modelling, system analysis and stakeholder management. RPL applicants submit two project reports — one for a project completed within the last three years, one within the last five — each detailing the business problem, requirements-gathering approach, stakeholder engagement and delivery outcome, not just the finished system.

Where these applications come unstuck

The most common failure is a project report that reads as a system description rather than a business-analysis account — heavy on the software delivered, thin on the requirements process, stakeholder interviews and documentation that actually define the BA role. Applicants moving from a developer or PM background sometimes struggle to evidence BA-specific tasks separately from the wider project.

An honest read on this pathway

A workable pathway for someone who has genuinely performed requirements and process-analysis work, but the assessment is looking for BA-specific tasks — a generalist "did a bit of everything" project history is harder to evidence convincingly than a narrower, clearly BA-scoped one.

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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