Network Analyst (ANZSCO 263113)

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 Network Analyst 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 Network Analyst comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

ACS defines Network Analyst as researching and analysing network architecture and recommending policies and strategies for designing, planning and coordinating an organisation's network, including its total system environment. That is planning and architecture-level work, the closest of the family's three network codes to a pure design role, distinct from Network Administrator's day-to-day operational focus and narrower than Computer Network and Systems Engineer's end-to-end operational-readiness remit.

Where these applications come unstuck

A "Network Engineer" title that genuinely spans both design work and operational readiness has no single clean code between this occupation and Computer Network and Systems Engineer, and ACS's own duty language draws the line at planning and recommending strategy versus taking responsibility for deployment and configuration management. A reference letter weighted toward implementation and uptime reads as the other code, however the applicant's title is styled.

An honest read on this pathway

STSOL and CSOL, reaching employer sponsorship and state or regional nomination but not the points-tested 189 or the 485 graduate route. Along with the other two network codes and ICT Security Specialist, it is absent from South Australia's combined DAMA occupation list even though the list covers most of this family under one ICT Professionals heading. Thirteen of the seventeen codes in this family carry that DAMA concession; this is one of the four that does not.

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.

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