Systems Analyst (ANZSCO 261112)

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 Systems 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 Systems Analyst comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

ACS's lead definition for Systems Analyst is evaluating processes and methods used in EXISTING ICT systems and proposing modifications, additional components or new systems against a specification someone else may already have written. That is a different starting point from ICT Business Analyst, which produces the requirements document in the first place. Structurally, this code reads as the next step after 261111's output rather than a synonym for it. Both sit on the MLTSSL and CSOL, so the standard qualification-or-experience matrix and the full skilled and sponsored visa range apply equally to either.

Where these applications come unstuck

A career that straddles both requirements-writing and system redesign has no single obviously-correct code between this and ICT Business Analyst, and ACS assesses the code you nominate, not the closest one. If your reference letter emphasises talking to users and formulating a specification, that reads as 261111; if it emphasises evaluating an existing system and recommending changes, that reads as this code. Job titles rarely draw that line as cleanly as ACS's own definitions do, so the letter has to do the work the title does not.

An honest read on this pathway

One of only two codes in this whole 17-occupation family on the MLTSSL, so it is genuinely open to the points-tested 189 pathway as well as every sponsored route. It also appears on South Australia's combined DAMA occupation list under ICT Professionals, which is worth checking if the standard experience requirement, not the occupation choice, is what is holding an application back.

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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