Computer Network and Systems Engineer (ANZSCO 263111)

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 Computer Network and Systems Engineer 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 Computer Network and Systems Engineer comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

ACS's definition is the broadest and most senior of the family's three network codes: planning, developing, deploying, testing and optimising network and system services, with responsibility for configuration management and overall operational readiness. It is the only one of the three carrying MLTSSL, which sets it apart in visa terms from Network Administrator and Network Analyst as much as its definition sets it apart in duty terms. The end-to-end responsibility language is the distinguishing feature, not just seniority implied by a job title.

Where these applications come unstuck

A single career can plausibly straddle this code, Network Administrator and Network Analyst, and a real case shows exactly that: an applicant on a 457 visa was torn between an entirely different code and this one, while his most recent role, the experience he would actually submit, was Systems Administrator, a third code again, from one work history spanning two ANZSCO unit groups.

An honest read on this pathway

The only network code with MLTSSL access, reaching the points-tested 189 as well as sponsored and state routes. Despite that, it is one of four codes in the family absent from South Australia's combined DAMA occupation list, so the concession that helps most of its ICT-Professional siblings is not available here. Applicants relying on a DAMA experience concession specifically for this code will not find one on South Australia's current published list, whatever the strength of the underlying MLTSSL access.

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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