Australian Skilled Migration Questions & Answers

Persistence measures how often an INVITED status was observed across available monthly snapshots. It does not measure the number of invitations issued.

Source: Australian Government Department of Home Affairs — SkillSelect. Explore the complete rankings or read the monthly reports.

The rows below contain invited-status EOI stock in the published September 2026 snapshot. They do not count transitions into INVITED during that month.

There is no single defensible “hot occupation” measure.

These indicators answer different questions and should remain separate. SkillSelect activity also does not establish labour demand or predict a migration outcome.

A growing submitted pool represents more EOIs in SUBMITTED status. It can indicate increasing applicant competition but is not itself a measure of labour demand.

A fall in an observed invited-points value may be interesting historically, but it is not evidence that the same score will receive an invitation in the future.

These are valid 12-month movements between observed endpoints. Missing endpoints are not filled and do not enter the ranking.

Not yet answered by this dataset.

SkillSelect activity measures migration EOI status, not employer labour shortages. An occupation can show substantial SkillSelect activity without being classified as an occupation shortage.

A future version can integrate an official Jobs and Skills Australia occupation-shortage source. This page will not infer a shortage from SkillSelect data.

These are visa application processing times. They do not estimate how long someone will wait for an EOI invitation.

The extracted annual national series shows net overseas migration alongside migrant arrivals and departures. Its explicit year-ending reference period is shown with every value.

Net overseas migration

305.6KYear ending 30 June 2025

Migrant arrivals

571.4KYear ending 30 June 2025

Migrant departures

269.8KYear ending 30 June 2025

These are national or all-industry macro indicators. They are not occupation-specific salaries, vacancies or shortage measures for any six-digit ANZSCO profession.

Job vacancies

329.5K2026-Q2 · national

Average weekly earnings

$2,0842026-S1 · all industries

Annual wage growth

3.2%2026-Q2 · national WPI

Unemployment rate

4.5%2026-07 · national

Underutilisation rate

10.8%2026-07 · national

First SkillSelect snapshot

October 2024

Latest SkillSelect snapshot

September 2026

Monthly snapshots

24

Source processed

11 October 2026

Searchable terms

7,100

ABS indicators can use different reference periods; the migration values above therefore show their year-ending basis explicitly. See all source families and update labels.