Temporary Work (Skilled) Visa Program: 457 and 482 Visa Grants and Holders in Australia

Department of Home Affairs publishes quarterly statistical reports on the Temporary Work (skilled) visa program, covering subclasses 457 and 482. The data includes counts of visa grants and visa holders, with dimensions such as snapshot dates, financial year, gender, citizenship, occupation, and employer industry. These de-identified statistics were republished in 2024 following a privacy review and are released under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Tracking quarterly trends in skilled visa grants based on financial year and quarter dimensions
• Analyzing the geographic distribution of sponsored workers based on nominated position location
• Profiling the occupational composition of temporary skilled migrants based on nominated occupation data
• Studying the sponsoring industry sectors for temporary skilled workers based on employer industry data
• Examining demographic patterns of visa holders based on gender, age, and citizenship country

Strengths

• Data is published quarterly, providing regular updates on visa trends
• Includes two distinct data scopes: visa grants and a snapshot of current visa holders
• Published under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for reuse
• Subject to a documented privacy and compliance review prior to republication

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Data may reflect temporal and reporting bias inherent to administrative data_gov_au sources

Provenance

Source

Department of Home Affairs, Australia

Collection Method

Administrative records from the Temporary Work (skilled) visa program.

Freshness

Quarterly release schedule; last metadata update was 2026-04-23.

Geography

Australia