On 28 August 2024 the Home Office put a notification on its Sponsor Management System for Skilled Worker sponsors, confirming that when the Immigration Rules were updated in April 2024, the going rates for some occupations were stated to be higher than intended. 

The incorrect going rates will be amended in the Autumn update to the Immigration Rules. In the meantime, sponsors may rely on the figures stated in the following guidance documents (as updated on 10 July 2024), as these are the ones Home Office caseworkers will use: 

• Skilled Worker visa: going rates for eligible occupation code
  
• Skilled Worker visa: jobs that qualify for a PhD salary discount
• Skilled Worker visa: immigration salary list
• Skilled Worker visa: eligible salary if you're under 26, studying, training or in a postdoctoral role

Although the Sponsor Management System notification does not cover sponsors under the Global Business Mobility routes and Scale-up routes, we have received confirmation from the Home Office that the following guidance documents for these routes may also be relied on:

• Global Business Mobility: going rates for eligible occupations
• Scale-up: going rates for eligible occupations

If you have any queries about the going rate requirements for sponsoring workers, please contact a member of our immigration team.