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UK Shortage Occupations List

The UK Shortage Occupations List details the professions that are in high demand in the UK.  Employers for the occupations listed below are not required to advertise the posts they wish to fill.

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Engineering Occupations
Transportation and Highways Engineers
Engineers who are required to have a transport-related degree, or a degree and at least 2 years relevant experience from a civil background in the following specialisms:
Traffic Engineer or Transport Planner
Highways Design Engineer or Highways Planning Engineer
 Ground Engineering

The following occupations relate solely to the construction sector and not to oil/gas extraction:

Geoenviromental Engineer
Geotechnical Engineer
Geological Advisor
Geological Analyst
Geological Associate
Geological Engineer
Geologist / Hydrogeologist
Geology / Reservoir Engineer
Geomechanics Engineer
Geophysical Specialist
Geophysicist
Geoscientist
Geosupport Engineer
Engineering Geologist
Ground Engineer
Contaminated Land Specialist
Electricity Generation Engineering

The following Electricity Generation Engineering occupations relate solely to the electricity generating industry:

Mechanical Engineer
Senior Project Mechanical Engineer
Project Mechanical Engineer
Electrical Engineer
Senior Project Electrical Engineer
Project Electrical Engineer
Senior Project Civil Engineer
Project Civil Engineer
System Health Engineer (Nuclear)
Design Engineer (Nuclear)
Work Cycle Planner (Nuclear)
Shift or Team Leader 
Production Controller
Plant Process Engineer
Network Planners
Network Design Engineers
Senior Project Control and Instrumentation Engineer
Project Control and Instrumentation Engineer
Senior Project Control Engineer
Central Control Room Supervisor
Assistant Engineer (Shift Operations)
Performance Engineer
System Infrastructure Engineer
Assistant Chemist
Reactor Physicist
Assistant Reactor Physicist
Assistant Physicist
Other Engineering
Quantity Surveyors
CAA Licensed Aircraft Engineer
Overhead Electricity Linesworker
High Integrity Pipe Welder

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Healthcare Shortage Occupations
 Doctors
Salaried GPs
 Dentists
Consultants in Dental Specialities
Consultants in Orthodontics
 Consultants posts in the following specialist areas:
Anaesthetics and Intensive Care Medicine
Cardiology
Chemical Pathology
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Clinical Neurophysiology
Clinical Oncology
Forensic Psychiatry
General Adult Psychiatry
Genito-urinary Medicine
Geriatric Medicine
Haematology
Immunology
Medical Microbiology & Virology
Neurology
Nuclear Medicine
Occupational Medicine
Old Age Psychiatry
Oral & Maxillo-facial Surgery
Paediatrics
Plastic Surgery
Rehabilitation Medicine
Renal Medicine
 General
Audiologist 
Audiological Scientist 
Clinical Psychologist 
Pharmacists (including pre-registration pharmacist)
Pharmacy Technician Higher Level (band 5 and above) 
Speech & Language Therapist (engaged at Band 7 or Band 8 of Agenda for Change or their Independent sector equivalents)
State Registered Scientists in Cytogenetics
Qualified HPC Registered Diagnostic & Therapeutic Radiographers, including Ultrasonographers
Ultrasonographers
Social Worker 
 Nurses

Registered Nurse employed or engaged at Band 7 or Band 8 of Agenda for Change or their Independent sector equivalents in the following specialties:

Operating Theatre Nurse
Critical Care (nurses working in wards with a Level 2 or Level 3 classification)

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Other Occupations
Teachers  - All posts in England and Scotland covering compulsory schooling
Veterinary Surgeon

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