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UK Skilled Worker White Paper: Actions for Sponsors and Advisers—RQF6 Threshold, Rising Costs, Student Switching, Temporary Shortage List, End of New Care Worker Sponsorship

Published on: 30 May 2025

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Raising the minimum skill level to RQF6

The uplift in the minimum skill threshold for sponsoring Skilled Workers is set to be a significant shift. Our analysis indicates that 171 roles would cease to meet the Skilled Worker visa criteria (see the full list below). The Technical Annex to the White Paper projects a 23% drop in Skilled Worker visa applications—around 17,000 fewer applicants.

Sponsors should calm concerns among existing sponsored staff in these roles: their current leave will not be cut short and they will remain eligible to extend. It also appears they may change employers, and undertake supplementary work, in roles below the new RQF6 benchmark.

Given the sizeable contraction in qualifying roles, sponsors must reassess pipeline hiring and ensure enough Undefined Certificates of Sponsorship (CoS) are on hand, noting the Home Office expects precise vacancy particulars and frowns on speculative allocation asks. Bringing hires forward for roles likely to be taken out of the Skilled Worker route is a sensible step, particularly as the Home Office prefers to avoid a surge of...

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