Shortage Occupations

Category

Job Title

Directors and Chief Executives of Major Organisations (1112)

• Managing Director
• Programme Director
• Site Director

Production, works

and maintenance

managers (1121)

• Project Manager in the electricity transmission and distribution industry

Managers in

mining and

energy (1123)

• Site manager in the electricity transmission and distribution industry

Biological

scientists

and biochemists

(2112)

• Cardiac Physiologist
• Clinical Neurophysiologist
• Clinical Vascular Scientist
• Respiratory Physiologist
• Sleep Physiologist

Physicists,

geologists and

meteorologists

(2113)

• Hydro Geologist
• Geophysicist
• Geoscientist
• Geophysical Specialist
• Engineering Geophysicist
• Engineering Geomorphologist
• Geologist
• Geochemist
• Environmental Scientist
• Technical services manager in the decommissioning and waste areas of the nuclear industry
• Nuclear Medicine Scientist
• Radiotherapy Physicist
• Staff working in diagnostic radiology (including magnetic resonance imaging)

Civil engineers

(2121)

• Geotechnical design engineer
• Geotechnical specialist
• Reservoir panel engineer
• Rock mechanics engineer
• Soil mechanics engineer
• Geomechanics engineer
• Mining geotechnical engineer
• Mining and coal engineer
• Wells engineer
• Tunnelling engineer
• Petroleum engineer
• Drilling engineer
• Completions engineer
• Fluids engineer
• Reservoir engineer
• Offshore and subsea engineer
• Control and instrument engineer
• Process safety engineer

Mechanical

engineers (2122)

• Mechanical engineer in the aerospace

Electrical

engineers (2123)

• All electrical engineers in the oil and gas industry
• The following jobs in the electricity transmission and distribution industry:
  • Power system engineer
  • Control engineer
  • Protection engineer

Chemical

engineers (2125)

• ALL jobs in this occupation code

Design and

development

engineers (2126)

• Design engineer in the electricity transmission and distribution industry
• Simulation development engineer

Production and

process

engineers (2127)

• Manufacturing engineer (process planning) in the aerospace sector
• Technical services representative in the aerospace sector

Planning and

quality control

engineers (2128)

• The following jobs in the electricity transmission and distribution industry:
  • Planning / development engineer
  • Quality, health, safety and environment (QHSE) engineer

Engineering

professionals not

elsewhere

classified (2129)

• Geoenvironmental specialist
• Geoenvironmental engineer
• Contaminated land engineer
• Landfill engineer
• Metallurgical / mineral processing engineer
• The following jobs in the aerospace sector:
  • Aerothermal engineer
  • Stress engineer
  • Chief of engineering
  • Advance tool and fixturing engineer
• The following jobs in the decommissioning and waste management areas of the nuclear industry:
  • Operations manager
  • Decommissioning specialist manager
  • Project / planning engineer
  • Radioactive waste manager
  • Radiological protection advisor
• The following jobs in the electricity transmission and distribution industry:
  • Project engineer
  • Proposals engineer

Software

professionals

(2132)

• The following jobs in visual effects and 2D / 3D computer animation for film, television or video games:
  • Software developer
  • Systems engineer
  • Shader writer

Medical

practitioners

(2211)

• Consultants in the following specialities:
  • Clinical neurophysiology
  • Emergency medicine
  • Genito-urinary medicine
  • Haematology
  • Neurology
  • Occupational medicine
• Consultants in the following specialities of psychiatry:
  • Forensic psychiatry
  • General psychiatry
  • Learning disabilities psychiatry
  • Old age psychiatry
• Non-consultant, non-training, medical staff posts in the following specialities:
  • Anaesthetics
  • Paediatrics and general medicine specialities delivering acute care services (intensive care medicine, general internal medicine (acute), emergency medicine, general surgery, obstetrics and gynaecology, and trauma and orthopaedic surgery)
• ST4 level trainees in paediatrics

Secondary

education

teaching

professionals

(2314)

• Secondary education teachers in the subjects of maths or pure sciences (physics and / or chemistry)

Special needs

education

teaching

professionals

(2316)

• All teaching posts in special schools

Management

consultants,

actuaries,

economists and

statisticians

(2423)

• Qualified actuaries working in the life assurance, general insurance, and health and care sectors

Social workers

(2442)

• Social worker in children’s and family services
• Social worker entry level (band 5 or equivalent):

Engineering

Technicians

(3113)

• The following jobs in the electricity transmission and distribution industry:
  • Commissioning engineer
  • Substation electrical engineer

Nurses (3211)

• Specialist nurse working in operating theatres
• Operating department practitioner
• Specialist nurse working in neonatal intensive care units

Medical

radiographers

(3214)

• HPC-registered diagnostic radiographer
• HPC-registered therapeutic radiographer
• Sonographer

Medical and

dental

technicians

(3218)

• Nuclear medicine technologist
• Radiotherapy technologist

Artists (3411)

• Animator in visual effects and 2D / 3D computer animation for film, television or video games

Arts officers,

producers and

directors (3416)

• The following roles within visual effects and 2D / 3D computer animation for film, television or video games:
  • 2D supervisor
  • 3D supervisor
  • Computer graphics supervisor
  • Producer
  • Production manager
  • Technical director
  • Visual effects supervisor

Graphic

designers (3421)

• The following roles within visual effects and 2D / 3D computer animation for film, television or video games:
  • Compositing artist
  • Matte painter
  • Modeller
  • Rigger
  • Stereo artist
  • Texture artist

Buyers and

purchasing

officers (3541)

• Manufacturing engineer (purchasing) in the aerospace sector

Welding trades

(5215)

• High integrity pipe welder where the job requires three or more years relevant experience

Line repairers

and cable jointers

(5243)

• Overhead lines worker in the electricity transmission and distribution industry, working on high voltage lines that carry at least 275,000 volts

Medical

practitioners

(2211)

• ALL jobs on the UK shortage occupation list
• ST3, ST5 and ST6 level trainees in paediatrics*
• Staff grade and Associate Specialist (SAS) doctors in paediatrics
• Consultants in paediatrics