Technicians and Trades Workers nec (ANZSCO 399999)

On the Regional 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 Technicians and Trades Workers nec on?

ROL — Regional Occupation List. Occupations on the ROL are limited to the regional provisional visas — mainly the Skilled Work Regional 491 and Skilled Employer Sponsored Regional 494.

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 Technicians and Trades Workers nec comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

Technicians and Trades Workers nec sits on the Regional Occupation List plus the Core Skills Occupation List, reaching 186, 482 and 494, and is a genuine catch-all rather than a shortcut — TRA's own FAQ states that applicants must nominate the occupation for which they wish to be assessed themselves, and this code is only correct where an applicant's actual trade matches none of the family's twelve named codes. It also carries a status none of its family members share: TRA's approved Construction Occupations List for Prioritisation and Streamlining names "399999 Technicians and Trades Workers (NEC)" as Prioritised.

Where these applications come unstuck

Prioritised status buys automatic faster processing at no extra fee, but it is not the document-only shortcut it can sound like — the nec code does not appear on TRA's shorter Streamlined list at all, so it still follows whichever program its own occupation-and-country combination would otherwise require. The larger risk sits earlier: nominating nec when a named code genuinely fits your trade is not a safer or easier fallback, and TRA will not correct that choice for you — it can mean an assessor bouncing the application back for the correct nomination, costing a full processing cycle.

An honest read on this pathway

This code's 186/482/494 reach matches most of its non-marine family members, so the visa position itself is unremarkable; what makes it worth reading closely is the prioritisation quirk. A construction-adjacent nec applicant gets queue-priority they may never think to ask about, while getting none of the streamlined-program relief that only Bricklayer, Carpenter and Joiner carry in a separate family. Checked directly against both PDFs: no other code in this thirteen-occupation family appears on either list, positive or negative.

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.

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