Landscape Gardener (ANZSCO 362711)

On the Short-term Skilled Occupation List and Core Skills Occupation List · ANZSCO codes 362711, 362213

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 Landscape Gardener 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 Landscape Gardener comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

Landscape Gardener carries both STSOL and CSOL, giving it the same wide visa reach as Arborist, and its task description, planning and constructing garden landscapes, has not changed in substance since 2013, only its code and unit-group number. TRA has no dedicated page for this occupation; it falls to the Migration Skills Assessment's documentary catch-all unless a specific passport-and-occupation combination is mandatorily routed elsewhere, which TRA's site does not fully publish. TRA states that neither work experience nor an occupational licence can substitute for the underlying trade qualification MSA is built to check, and no English test applies to any TRA program.

Where these applications come unstuck

The costliest mistake with this title is confusing it with Landscape Architect, a completely different, bachelor-degree-tier profession assessed by VETASSESS, not TRA. Someone with hands-on landscaping-trade experience who nominates Landscape Architect because the title sounds more senior will not have the evidence a Group A assessment requires; a landscape-architecture graduate who nominates Landscape Gardener because it sounds like the closer trade will be under-nominating relative to their own qualification. A second, narrower pitfall: this occupation's current unit group also introduced a new sibling code, Irrigation Technician, for irrigation-system work specifically.

An honest read on this pathway

Landscape Gardener reaches 190, 407, 491 and 494 from the Short-Term list plus 186 and 482 from the CSOL; both employer sponsorship and state or regional routes are genuinely open, though, like every occupation in this family, 189 and 485 are not available under this code. The name collision with Landscape Architect is the biggest risk to the pathway actually working: the two occupations sit with different authorities, different qualification tiers and different visa lists, and nominating the wrong one wastes an assessment on evidence that was never going to match what the assessor expects.

Going through Trades Recognition Australia? TRA pathways lean heavily on documented work history and evidence of on-the-job experience. The Employment History Builder reconstructs it with gap detection, so the record you submit holds together.

Talk it through with a registered agent

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