The Employer Applies First: No Sponsor, No Route
The main British work route is Skilled Worker, and the Appendix that governs it says in its own first sentence that it is for employers to recruit people, not for people to move. Nothing can be done without a licensed sponsor: a Certificate of Sponsorship allocated by the Home Office to an approved sponsor for a specific job at a specific salary carries twenty of the fifty mandatory points, and SW 4.4 withholds the salary points altogether if the sponsorship points are not awarded. The salary test is doubled - the applicant must equal or exceed both a cash floor and the published going rate for the occupation code, so a job paying above the floor still fails if it pays below its own going rate. The general floor is £41,700 a year. The lower floors that circulate in guidance are not general: £31,300 and £25,000 belong to options F to K, which reach only health and care jobs, a transitional group granted before 4 April 2024, and listed health and education occupations. A grant runs to fourteen days after the certificate of sponsorship ends, up to five years, and five continuous years lead to settlement.
At a glance
- General salary floor
- £41,700 per year, and at least the going rate for the occupation code - both, not either
Option A in the table following SW 4.4 of Appendix Skilled Worker.
- The lower floor of £31,300
- Option F, available only for a Health and Care ASHE salary job or to someone granted Skilled Worker permission under the rules in place before 4 April 2024 who has held it continuously since
SW 4.2(b) restricts options F to J. Quoting £31,300 as a general threshold is the commonest error about this route.
- Points needed
- 50 mandatory points: 20 for sponsorship, 20 for skill level, 10 for English
SW 4.1 and the table following it, with the salary option adding a further 20 under SW 4.4.
- English language level
- CEFR B2 in all four components, or B1 where the most recent permission was as a Skilled Worker granted subject to a B1 requirement
The table following SW 4.1 and SW 7.1 of Appendix Skilled Worker.
- Funds the applicant must show
- £1,270
SW 15.2. Not required where the A-rated sponsor certifies maintenance to that amount, or where the applicant has been in the UK with permission for 12 months or longer.
- Length of a grant
- Until 14 days after the certificate of sponsorship ends, and the certificate may run up to 5 years
SW 18.1.
- Qualifying period for settlement
- 5 continuous years in the UK
SW 21.1. SW 21.2 lets the five years be made up of Skilled Worker, Global Talent, Innovator Founder, T2 Minister of Religion, International Sportsperson, Representative of an Overseas Business, Tier 1 other than Graduate Entrepreneur, and Scale-up.
- Working for anyone but the sponsor
- Prohibited, except supplementary employment, voluntary work and working out a contractual notice period
SW 18.2(b) to (e). The permission is attached to one job with one employer.
- A route for an unsponsored employee or jobseeker
- None in Appendix Skilled Worker, where sponsorship points are mandatory under SW 4.4
The Immigration Rules index does list unsponsored routes of other kinds - Global Talent, High Potential Individual, Graduate, Youth Mobility Scheme - which have not been read for this record.
Requirements
- A job offer from a Home Office-approved sponsor, with a valid Certificate of Sponsorship
- A job in an eligible SOC 2020 occupation code in Appendix Skilled Occupations or on one of the named lists
- Salary at or above both the cash floor for the applicable option and the going rate for the occupation code
- English at CEFR B2 in reading, writing, speaking and listening
- £1,270 in funds held for 28 days, unless the sponsor certifies maintenance or the applicant has been in the UK 12 months
- Entry clearance before arrival, if applying from outside the UK
In detail
Two floors, and the one that applies to you is probably the higher one
Eleven salary options sit in the table following SW 4.4, lettered A to K, and they are not alternatives a person chooses between. SW 4.2 restricts them: options A to E are the ordinary ones, options F to J are open only to a Health and Care ASHE salary job or to a transitional group who held Skilled Worker permission under the rules in place before 4 April 2024 and have held it continuously since, and option K only to listed health and education occupation codes. So the £41,700 of option A is the real general floor and £31,300 is not, even though both numbers appear in the same table. Each option also has its own going-rate percentage: option B accepts 90% of the going rate for a PhD holder, option C 80% for a STEM PhD, option E 70% for a new entrant. Reading the cash figure without the percentage beside it gets the answer wrong in the other direction.
What the sponsor has to be, and keep being
SW 5.2 to SW 5.6A load several requirements on to the employer rather than the applicant. The sponsor must be authorised for this route, must be A-rated on the register of licensed sponsors unless the applicant is continuing with the same sponsor, and must have paid the Immigration Skills Charge in full. The decision maker must have no reasonable grounds to believe the job does not exist, is a sham, was created mainly so the applicant could apply, amounts to hiring the applicant out to a third party, or fails to comply with the National Minimum Wage Regulations or the Working Time Regulations. The same conditions return at the settlement stage: SW 24.1 requires the sponsor still to be approved on the date of decision, and SW 24.2 requires them to confirm they still need the applicant for the foreseeable future.
Exceptions by origin
No exceptions recorded
Nothing we have read treats any nationality differently for this topic. The rule above applies to everyone.
What the law says
«The Skilled Worker route is for employers to recruit people to work in the UK, including in UK waters, in a specific job. A Skilled Worker must have a job offer in an eligible skilled occupation from a Home Office-approved sponsor.»The Home Office's own description of whose route it is.
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Cannot be cited for: No appendix page carries a version date or an in-force date on its face. The only way to date the text is the statement of changes collection, which gives the most recent statement laid but not which appendix it touched, so a citation to an appendix can be dated only to "the consolidation current at or after HC <n> of <date>". The Rules are not enacted: Parliament may disapprove a statement but does not pass it, so this is a department publishing its own rules and the site is both the issuer and the only publisher of the consolidated text - there is no independent consolidation to check it against. A closed route is hollowed rather than removed: the headings for Tier 1 (Investor), Tier 1 (General) and retired persons of independent means still stand above paragraphs reading DELETED, so the presence of a heading proves nothing. It is not a source for departmental guidance, for fees, for sponsor licensing decisions or for the lists of endorsing bodies, approved tests and designated institutions that the Rules make load-bearing and publish elsewhere.
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«SW 4.4. If the requirements for the relevant option are met, the applicant will be awarded 20 points. However, no points will be awarded if the applicant is not also being awarded the 20 points for sponsorship under SW 5.7. and the 20 points for a job at the appropriate skill level under SW 6.4.»Salary points are conditional on sponsorship points, which is what makes sponsorship the gate rather than one factor among several.
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Cannot be cited for: No appendix page carries a version date or an in-force date on its face. The only way to date the text is the statement of changes collection, which gives the most recent statement laid but not which appendix it touched, so a citation to an appendix can be dated only to "the consolidation current at or after HC <n> of <date>". The Rules are not enacted: Parliament may disapprove a statement but does not pass it, so this is a department publishing its own rules and the site is both the issuer and the only publisher of the consolidated text - there is no independent consolidation to check it against. A closed route is hollowed rather than removed: the headings for Tier 1 (Investor), Tier 1 (General) and retired persons of independent means still stand above paragraphs reading DELETED, so the presence of a heading proves nothing. It is not a source for departmental guidance, for fees, for sponsor licensing decisions or for the lists of endorsing bodies, approved tests and designated institutions that the Rules make load-bearing and publish elsewhere.
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«| A | The applicant’s salary equals or exceeds both: <br> • £41,700 per year; and <br> • the going rate for the SOC 2020 occupation code. | SW 8.1. | 20 |»Quoted as the page publishes the table. The word is "both": the cash floor and the going rate are cumulative.
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Cannot be cited for: No appendix page carries a version date or an in-force date on its face. The only way to date the text is the statement of changes collection, which gives the most recent statement laid but not which appendix it touched, so a citation to an appendix can be dated only to "the consolidation current at or after HC <n> of <date>". The Rules are not enacted: Parliament may disapprove a statement but does not pass it, so this is a department publishing its own rules and the site is both the issuer and the only publisher of the consolidated text - there is no independent consolidation to check it against. A closed route is hollowed rather than removed: the headings for Tier 1 (Investor), Tier 1 (General) and retired persons of independent means still stand above paragraphs reading DELETED, so the presence of a heading proves nothing. It is not a source for departmental guidance, for fees, for sponsor licensing decisions or for the lists of endorsing bodies, approved tests and designated institutions that the Rules make load-bearing and publish elsewhere.
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«SW 4.2. The applicant must be awarded 20 points from one of the options in the table below and for the purpose of meeting these points: 1. (a) an applicant can only be awarded points from options A to E, unless they meet the requirements in (b) or (c). 2. (b) An applicant can only be awarded points from options F to J if: 1. (i) they are being sponsored for a Health and Care ASHE salary job; or 2. (ii) the date of application is before 4 April 2030, they were granted permission as a Skilled Worker under the rules in place before 4 April 2024, and they have had continuous permission as a Skilled Worker since then»The gate that keeps the lower salary floors away from a new applicant outside health and care. The quotation stops before the exception for overstayers, which does not change the gate.
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Cannot be cited for: No appendix page carries a version date or an in-force date on its face. The only way to date the text is the statement of changes collection, which gives the most recent statement laid but not which appendix it touched, so a citation to an appendix can be dated only to "the consolidation current at or after HC <n> of <date>". The Rules are not enacted: Parliament may disapprove a statement but does not pass it, so this is a department publishing its own rules and the site is both the issuer and the only publisher of the consolidated text - there is no independent consolidation to check it against. A closed route is hollowed rather than removed: the headings for Tier 1 (Investor), Tier 1 (General) and retired persons of independent means still stand above paragraphs reading DELETED, so the presence of a heading proves nothing. It is not a source for departmental guidance, for fees, for sponsor licensing decisions or for the lists of endorsing bodies, approved tests and designated institutions that the Rules make load-bearing and publish elsewhere.
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«SW 15.2. If the applicant is applying for entry clearance, or has been in the UK for less than 12 months on the date of application, either: 1. (a) the applicant must have funds of at least £1,270; or 2. (b) the applicant’s A-rated sponsor must certify that they will, if necessary, maintain and accommodate the applicant up to the end of the first month of their employment, to an amount of at least £1,270.»SW 15.3 requires the funds to have been held for 28 days and evidenced as specified in Appendix Finance.
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The department that lays the Immigration Rules before Parliament under section 3(2) of the Immigration Act 1971 and publishes them on gov.uk. The Rules - HC 395 as amended - are the operative law of almost every immigration route: the Acts set the framework and delegate, and what a person must actually satisfy is in an appendix. The consolidated appendices are served one per page under gov.uk/guidance/immigration-rules, with an index page listing every Part and Appendix with a one-line description of each, which is the only published closed list of the routes that exist. Changes are made by a statement of changes laid before Parliament, and those are collected at gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-rules-statement-of-changes.
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«SW 18.1. The applicant will be granted entry clearance or permission to stay until 14 days after the end date of their certificate of sponsorship (the end date of the certificate of sponsorship may be up to a maximum of 5 years after the start date of their certificate of sponsorship), subject to SW 18.1A.»The permission is cut to the shape of the certificate, so a two-year certificate produces a two-year permission and a fresh application for the rest of the five years.
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The department that lays the Immigration Rules before Parliament under section 3(2) of the Immigration Act 1971 and publishes them on gov.uk. The Rules - HC 395 as amended - are the operative law of almost every immigration route: the Acts set the framework and delegate, and what a person must actually satisfy is in an appendix. The consolidated appendices are served one per page under gov.uk/guidance/immigration-rules, with an index page listing every Part and Appendix with a one-line description of each, which is the only published closed list of the routes that exist. Changes are made by a statement of changes laid before Parliament, and those are collected at gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-rules-statement-of-changes.
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Cannot be cited for: No appendix page carries a version date or an in-force date on its face. The only way to date the text is the statement of changes collection, which gives the most recent statement laid but not which appendix it touched, so a citation to an appendix can be dated only to "the consolidation current at or after HC <n> of <date>". The Rules are not enacted: Parliament may disapprove a statement but does not pass it, so this is a department publishing its own rules and the site is both the issuer and the only publisher of the consolidated text - there is no independent consolidation to check it against. A closed route is hollowed rather than removed: the headings for Tier 1 (Investor), Tier 1 (General) and retired persons of independent means still stand above paragraphs reading DELETED, so the presence of a heading proves nothing. It is not a source for departmental guidance, for fees, for sponsor licensing decisions or for the lists of endorsing bodies, approved tests and designated institutions that the Rules make load-bearing and publish elsewhere.
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«SW 18.2. The grant will be subject to all the following conditions: 1. (a) no access to public funds; and 2. (b) work is permitted only in the job the applicant is being sponsored for, subject to (c) to (e); and 3. (c) supplementary employment is permitted, providing the person continues to work in the job for which they are being sponsored»The conditions bite under section 3(1)(c) of the Immigration Act 1971, which is what makes a breach of them an immigration matter rather than an employment one.
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«SW 21.1. The applicant must have spent a continuous period of 5 years in the UK.»SW 21.2 names the routes whose time may be combined to make up the five years, and excludes time held as a dependant.
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Cannot be cited for: No appendix page carries a version date or an in-force date on its face. The only way to date the text is the statement of changes collection, which gives the most recent statement laid but not which appendix it touched, so a citation to an appendix can be dated only to "the consolidation current at or after HC <n> of <date>". The Rules are not enacted: Parliament may disapprove a statement but does not pass it, so this is a department publishing its own rules and the site is both the issuer and the only publisher of the consolidated text - there is no independent consolidation to check it against. A closed route is hollowed rather than removed: the headings for Tier 1 (Investor), Tier 1 (General) and retired persons of independent means still stand above paragraphs reading DELETED, so the presence of a heading proves nothing. It is not a source for departmental guidance, for fees, for sponsor licensing decisions or for the lists of endorsing bodies, approved tests and designated institutions that the Rules make load-bearing and publish elsewhere.
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«(4)The rules laid down by the Secretary of State as to the practice to be followed in the administration of this Act for regulating the entry into and stay in the United Kingdom of persons not having the right of abode shall include provision for admitting (in such cases and subject to such restrictions as may be provided by the rules, and subject or not to conditions as to length of stay or otherwise) persons coming for the purpose of taking employment, or for purposes of study, or as visitors, or as dependants of persons lawfully in or entering the United Kingdom.»The Act obliges the Rules to admit people coming to take employment, to study, to visit and as dependants. It names no other purpose, and section 3(2) adds that the rules need not be uniform as regards citizenship or nationality.
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Practical notes
The going rates themselves are in Appendix Skilled Occupations and the reduced-threshold occupations in Appendix Immigration Salary List. Neither has been read for this record, so no going rate for any occupation is published here.
The Temporary Shortage List at SW 6.1A is time-limited on its face: it reaches only an application made on a certificate of sponsorship issued before 31 December 2026.
Appendix Skilled Worker on gov.uk carries no version date. The Home Office's statement of changes collection listed HC 584 of 3 September 2026 as the most recent when this was read, and salary thresholds on this route have moved in most recent years.
Figures are in pounds sterling as the Appendix states them. They are annual salary figures, and SW 14.1 to SW 14.5 govern how a salary is converted and what may be counted towards it; those paragraphs were not read in full.
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The department that lays the Immigration Rules before Parliament under section 3(2) of the Immigration Act 1971 and publishes them on gov.uk. The Rules - HC 395 as amended - are the operative law of almost every immigration route: the Acts set the framework and delegate, and what a person must actually satisfy is in an appendix. The consolidated appendices are served one per page under gov.uk/guidance/immigration-rules, with an index page listing every Part and Appendix with a one-line description of each, which is the only published closed list of the routes that exist. Changes are made by a statement of changes laid before Parliament, and those are collected at gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-rules-statement-of-changes.
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Cannot be cited for: No appendix page carries a version date or an in-force date on its face. The only way to date the text is the statement of changes collection, which gives the most recent statement laid but not which appendix it touched, so a citation to an appendix can be dated only to "the consolidation current at or after HC <n> of <date>". The Rules are not enacted: Parliament may disapprove a statement but does not pass it, so this is a department publishing its own rules and the site is both the issuer and the only publisher of the consolidated text - there is no independent consolidation to check it against. A closed route is hollowed rather than removed: the headings for Tier 1 (Investor), Tier 1 (General) and retired persons of independent means still stand above paragraphs reading DELETED, so the presence of a heading proves nothing. It is not a source for departmental guidance, for fees, for sponsor licensing decisions or for the lists of endorsing bodies, approved tests and designated institutions that the Rules make load-bearing and publish elsewhere.
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- consolidatesImmigration Act 1971, section 1
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Cannot be cited for: Its consolidation date is not an editorial date but the date of the request, so two provisions of the same Act read a day apart carry different cut-offs, and the cut-off must be taken from each page rather than from the Act. It carries no Immigration Rules: the Rules are laid before Parliament under section 3(2) of the Immigration Act 1971 and published by the Home Office, and nothing in them is on this site. Some instruments are served only as made, with no revised text at all, and the site says so on the page - the Driving Licences (Exchangeable Licences) Order 1984 is one, and its electronic text was contributed by Westlaw from the printed copy. Where a page lists outstanding effects, the text shown is known to be behind its own amendments, and where an amending provision was never commenced the page lists an effect that will never arrive: section 6 of the British Nationality Act 1981 carries effects from a 2009 Act whose amending provisions are themselves prospectively repealed. It is not a source for what a department does, for fees set administratively, or for any external document an instrument incorporates by reference.
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