For a Web Developer Emigrating to Australia

Welcome to our guide on the Australian skills assessment process for a Web Developer. Before we examine the skills required to be recognised as a Web Developer it may be helpful to explain that the skills assessment is the first step of the emigration process. The skills Assessment of a Web Developer determines their eligibility to emigrate and the visa options available. Ultimately, it will affect their employment opportunities once they are in Australia.

While we appreciate that each case is unique, we always strive to secure the best possible outcome from the Skills Assessing Authorities in Australia. Experience has proven that efforts and expertise in this area are often the keys to a successful case.

Ensuring Web Developers Are In High Demand

Every skilled migrant wants to know they will be able to secure a job quickly and easily when they are in Australia. The Australian emigration system ensures that they can.

Each year, State Governments and the two territorial Governments report to the federal government on their local demand for Web Developers and if they need to bring in Web Developers from overseas to fill any potential shortage skills gaps. This report states the number of overseas a Web Developers required in the coming year to fill the skills gap within each region.

The Skills in demand are then broken down into priority lists. These lists range from those skills in high demand across the country to those skills with only limited demand within rural areas.

Curently, Web Developers are on the STSOL list. Being on this list means a Web Developer may qualify for one of the following visa streams:

• 190, 407, 491 (S/T), TSS (S)*, 494

To read more about the shortage skills list, you can visit the government website here: STSOL

Skills and Experience Required To Be a Web Developer

Before a person can be accepted in Australia as Web Developer, their qualification, skills and experience must be independently verified via a rigorous accreditation. The process ensures all skilled migrants can do their jobs to the required Australian standards.

1. Defining the job title a Web Developer:

The profession “a Web Developer” can mean something slightly different in Australia to what is referred to overseas. In “official emigration terms”, this profession is aligned within the occupation category “Web Developer” and is uniquely identified by the code 261212. This may seem weird to some people, but it is a registry system that has been in place since 2006.

2. Key Requirements for a Web Developer:

For a Web Developer to be deemed experienced down under, here are the essential skills, tasks, duties and responsibilities they must be familiar with:

General Duties:

Communication and collaboration
• Customer service
• Performance evaluation and efficiency improvement
• Data
• analytics
• and databases
• Records
• documentation
• reports and research
• Operating procedures and processes
• Security and emergency services
• Digital technologies and electronics
• Teaching and education

Core Specialist Responsibilities:

Teach others to use computer technology
• Develop procedures for communications and data management
• Operate and maintain computers
• Prepare information or website content
• Install and maintain computer equipment or software
• Provide customer service and communicate information
• Create and update databases
• Communicate and collaborate
• Enforce or maintain security
• Resolve computer application or systems issues
• Develop operational strategies
• plans or procedures
• Collaborate with stakeholders
• Develop websites or software
• Test computer or software performance
• Develop and administer testing routines or procedures
• Undertake project planning
• ICT support
• design and management
• Research
• evaluate or design new technologies
• Develop or evaluate projects or designs

Specific Tasks Associated with the Role:

Coordinate project activities with other staff or departments
• Design websites or applications
• Troubleshoot issues with computer applications or systems
• Create databases to store electronic data
• Collaborate with others to develop or implement marketing strategies
• Implement security measures for computer or information systems
• Provide recommendations to others about computer hardware or software
• Update website content
• Develop computer or information security policies or procedures
• Create electronic data backup to prevent loss of information
• Evaluate utility of software or hardware technologies
• Conduct research to gain information about products or processes
• Analyse project data to determine specifications or requirements
• Install computer hardware
• Recommend changes to improve computer or information systems
• Develop testing routines or procedures
• Develop detailed project plans
• Develop specifications or procedures for website development or maintenance
• Document design or development procedures
• Test software performance
• Prepare graphics or other visual representations of information
• Develop diagrams or flow charts of system operation
• Write computer programming code
• Provide technical support for computer network issues
• Configure computer networks
• Monitor the security of digital information
• Resolve computer software problems
• Document network-related activities or tasks
• Provide customer service to clients or users
• Update knowledge about emerging industry or technology trends
• Design computer modelling or simulation programs
• Develop models of information or communications systems
• Collaborate with others to resolve information technology issues

3. The Australian eligibility criteria for a Web Developer:

Currently Web Developer’s are listed on the . This reflects the demand for the profession within Australia.

4. Emigration options:

As the profession is currently listed on the , there are places available. However, demand is high, and Australia will stop inviting further applicants to emigrate once all the places are filled.

Navigating the Vocational Education and Training Assessment Services Skills Assessment Process

For Web Developers, the skills assessing body is “Vocational Education and Training Assessment Services” they are often referred to as the VETASSESS. To visit their site, follow the link: https://www.vetassess.com.au

It is important to note that the primary purpose of the Vocational Education and Training Assessment Services is to make a profit and protect their current members from migrants entering Australia, taking their members’ jobs, and driving down standards or wages.

Therefore, the VETASSESS will often look to delay, frustrate and reject cases, preventing accreditations wherever possible, with those aims in mind.

The result of a candidate’s skills assessment is often a key factor in their success. It is vital that we secure the highest possible skills accreditation.

Find out more

Emigration law is one of the most complex areas of legislation and is continuously being adapted. By definition, emigrating to Australia is a legal process where the individual must prove their case. It is not down to the government to assist in that process. In fact, in legal terms, it is the government against whom we must win our case.

To discover more, complete our assessment form for your complimentary guide and one of our friendly experts will assess your eligibility to live and work in Australia.