Irish Critical Skills Occupations List

SOC 3

Employment category

SOC 4

Skills needed

Chemical scientists in manufacturing (including food & beverages,
medical devices), product development, analytical development, clinical co-vigilance, or biotechnology or related and relevant specialist  skills, qualifications or experience

Medical laboratory scientists

Biological scientists and biochemists in manufacturing (including food
& beverages, medical devices), product development, analytical development, clinical co-vigilance, or biotechnology or related and relevant specialist  skills, qualifications or experience

Physical scientists in manufacturing (including food & beverages,
medical devices), product development, analytical development, clinical co-vigilance, or biotechnology or related and relevant specialist  skills, qualifications or experience

Civil Engineers

Structural Engineers and Site Engineers

Mechanical engineers specialising in:                                          

• Quality control, or validation and regulation engineering (high tech industry; food and beverages), or  
• Mechanical engineering (especially polymer engineering skills in the areas of pharmaceuticals, medical devices or green economy), or 
• Chemical process engineering, or                          
• Process automation engineering, or
• Power generation, transmission and distribution, or
• Related and relevant specialist  skills, qualifications or experience

Electrical engineers specialising in:

• Chip design, test engineering, or application engineering, or
• Process automation engineering, or
• Power generation, transmission and distribution, or
• Related and relevant specialist skills, qualifications or experience

Electronics engineers specialising in:

• Chip design, test engineering, or application engineering, or
• Process automation engineering, or
• Power generation, transmission and distribution, or
• Related and relevant specialist skills, qualifications or experience

Design and development engineers specialising in:                     

• Quality control, or validation and regulation engineering (high tech industry; food and beverages), or
• Chip design, test engineering, or application engineering, or
• Process automation engineering, or
• Power generation, transmission and distribution, or
• Related and relevant specialist skills, qualifications or experience

Production and process engineers specialising in:

• Quality control, or validation and regulation engineering (high tech industry; food
• and beverages), or 
• Chemical process engineering, or
• Process automation engineering, or
• Power generation, transmission and distribution, or
• Related and relevant specialist  skills, qualifications or experience

113

Information technology and telecommunications directors

IT project and programme managers

IT business analysts, architects and systems designers

Programmers and software development professionals

Web design and development professionals

221

Medical practitioners

221

Industrial pharmacists

221

• Radiographers

• Radiation therapists

• Vascular technologists/physiologists

• Gastro intestinal technologists/physiologists

• Respiratory Physiologists

221

• Audiologists

• Perfusionists

Health and Social Services Managers and Directors

Senior health services and public health managers and directors

223

Nursing and Midwifery Professionals

2231

• Registered Nurses (RGN, MHN, ID and Children’s nurses)

• Clinical Nurse Specialists

• Clinical Nurse Managers

• Advanced Nursing Practitioners

223

Nursing and Midwifery Professionals

2232

• Registered Midwives

• Clinical Midwife Specialists

• Clinical Midwife Managers

• Advanced Midwife Practitioners

222

Therapy Professionals

2229

Orthoptists

321

Health Associate Professionals

3218

• Prosthetists

• Orthotists

321

Health Associate Professionals

3213

• PHECC Registered Paramedics

• PHECC Registered Advanced Paramedic Practitioners

Academics who hold a qualification equivalent to Level 10 of the National Framework of Qualifications in a given discipline awarded no less than two calendar years prior to the date of application for an employment permit, with a minimum of one academic year of relevant teaching experience, and the employment concerned:

• Is in a third level institution governed by the Irish Universities Act 1997 (No. 24 of 1997), the Institutes of Technology Act 2006 (No. 25 of 2006) and the Technological Universities Act 2018 (No. 3 of 2018); or
• Involves delivering a programme largely or wholly concerned with information and communications technology, which leads to a major award at QQI level 8 and/or level 9 as validated by Quality & Qualifications Ireland

242

Business, Research and Administrative Professionals

2421

• Chartered and certified accountants and taxation experts specializing in tax, compliance, regulation, solvency, or financial management, or related and relevant specialist skills, qualifications or experience.

• Qualified accountants with at least three years' auditing experience, who are full members of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), Philippine Institute of Certified Public Accountants (PICPA) and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Pakistan (ICAP) and whom have relevant work experience in the areas of US GAAP reporting and Global Audit and Advisory Services and the employment concerned is in MNC Global Audit Services.

• Tax consultants specializing in non-EEA tax consultancy and compliance with a professional tax qualification or legal qualification with tax specialism, and has a minimum of three years' experience of tax consultancy requirements and regulations in the relevant non-EEA market. 

242

Business, Research and Administrative Professionals

2423

Management consultants and business analysts specialising in big data analytics with skills in IT, data mining, modelling, and advanced maths 
or related and relevant specialist skills, qualifications or experience

242

Business, Research and Administrative Professionals

2424

Business and financial project management professionals specializing
in finance & investment analytics, risk analytics, credit, fraud analytics
or related and relevant specialist skills, qualifications or experience

242

Business, Research and Administrative Professionals

2425

Actuaries, economists and statisticians specialising in big data 
analytics with skills in IT, data mining, modelling, and advanced maths
or related and relevant specialist skills, qualifications or experience

246

Quality and Regulatory Professionals

2461

Quality control and planning engineers

246

Quality and Regulatory Professionals

2462

246

Quality and Regulatory Professionals

2463

• Location Designer in 2D or 3D animation, with at least one year's experience in the role
• Character Designer in 2D or 3D animation, with at least one year's experience in the role
• Prop Designer in 2D or 3D animation, with at least one year's experience in the role
• Animation Layout Artist in 2D or 3D animation, with at least one year's experience in the role

High performance coaches and directors employed by

• National sports organisations, or
• High profile sports organisations engaging in international competition

354

Sales, Marketing and Related Associate Professionals

Business sales executives specialising in International Sales Roles or ITB2B sales roles and with fluency in the official language, apart from English, of a state which is not a Member State of the EEA