英国Work Permits部门对该国的人才需求进行了调查，结果调查显示下列的职业是英国目前缺乏人才的职业。申请将仅限于那些在该范畴内具有必要资格和工作经验的人。

普通电子工程和OPTO电子工程师：
包括IENG等级（或其他同等级）的电子工程师和物理方面技术人员：
Cellular phone systems development
Design and development of electronic systems with embedded software
Integrated Circuit Design
Opto-electronics
Photonics
Radio Frequency and Microwave System and Component Design
Systems integration
Telecommunications systems development
Video and audio systems development

保健师:
Audiologist
Audiological scientist
Clinical Psychologist
Dietitian
Occupational Therapist
Pharmacists
Physiotherapist
Speech and Language Therapist

医生
包括下列专家领域的相应的顾问职位：
Accident and Emergency medicine
Audiological medicine
Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics
Diagnostic Radiology (Radiology)
Morbid Anatomy and Histopathology
Nuclear medicine
Occupational medicine
Old Age Psychiatry
Ophthalmology
Orthopaedic Surgery (Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery)
Paediatrics
Palliative medicine
Radiotherapy (Clinical Oncology)
Urology

护士
包括所有的已注册的护士和助产士

ITCE (信息通讯技术与电子学)：
For jobs which are on the shortage occupation list the person you wish to employ must have either a relevant degree or a degree with at least 12 months relevant work experience.

分析系统程序师 * - normally having experience of both technical analysis and programming functions and playing a role in the technical aspects of delivering complete systems and having skills in one or more current technologies.

商业分析人才 - normally combining both technical and commercial knowledge to define the commercial requirements and objectives for a significant part of a business system or application.

数据库技术人才 * - normally responsible for the design, support and maintenance of corporate databases and usually entailing knowledge and experience on the utilisation of database software within various hard ware configurations.

IT 管理人员 - normally someone with a senior role in an organization, and having specific responsibility for planning, organising, coordinating and controlling IT projects, and for the development, operation and support of IT applications, systems and networks.

网络技术人才 - normally involved in high level design and installation of communication networks including the provision of hardware and software and the provision of advice on overall security of corporate networks and associated operating and recovery procedures.

软件工程师 * - normally entailing in depth knowledge of operating systems, application software and software development tools and including responsibility for design and development of systems including communications systems and networks.

* 下列的技术是在英国目前十分紧缺的：
Active Server Pages/Active X
All Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Computer Telephony Integration (CTI) packages (especially Siebel, Clarify, and Oracle CRM)
Broadvision e-commerce tools
C and C++ programming languages
Cool:gen
Java/Java Script
Oracle
Peoplesoft
Perl/Perl Script
SQL Server
Visual Basic/Visual C++
XML/DHTML

其它职业
Actuaries
CAA Licensed Aircraft Engineers
Teachers - all posts in England covering compulsory schooling
Veterinary Surgeon

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