Denmark Shortage Occupation List: Detailed Guide
The Positive List for Skilled Work in Denmark is a list of professions facing a shortage of qualified professionals. If you're offered a job from this list, you can apply for a Danish residence and work permit.
The list is updated twice a year, on January 1st and July 1st. If your job requires university-level qualifications in a field with a shortage of professionals, you can also benefit from the Positive List for the Highly Educated.
Here's a list of jobs on the Positive List for Skilled Work, organized by professional field. Each job title comes with its corresponding classification code (DISCO-08-code).
- Science and engineering associate professionals
- 311200: Surveying and Mapping Technician
- 311800: Draughtsman
- Health professionals
- Business and administration associate professionals
- 331300: Accountant Assistant
- 332110: Insurance Agent
- 332200: Sales Consultant
- 332200: Sales and Account Manager
- 333110: Customs Officer
- 333410: Real Estate Agent
- 333430: Property Manager
- 334400: Medical Secretary
- Legal, social, cultural and related associate professionals
- 341300: Parish Clerk
- 343200: Floral Decorator
- Information and communication technician work
- General and secretary clerks
- Numerical and material recording clerks
- 431100: Bookkeeping and Accounting Clerk
- 431100: Sales Support Assistant
- Office and Costumer Service Clerks
- 441600: Human Resources Assistant
- Personal services workers
- Sales workers (excluding agent workers)
- Personal care workers
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- 532120: Social and Health Care Assistant, institutions and hospitals (excl. nursing homes)
Requirement: Danish authorisation
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- 532220: Social and Health Care Assistant, private homes (incl. nursing homes)
Requirement: Danish authorisation
- Market-oriented skilled agricultural and nursery workers
- 611320: Landscape Gardener
- Building and related trades workers (excluding electricians)
- 711210: Bricklayer
- 711510: Carpenter
- 713110: Building Painter and Decorator
- Metal, machinery and related trades workers
- 721200: Welder
- 721300: Sheet Metal and Construction Blacksmith
- 721300: Bodywork Metal Worker
- 721400: Shipbuilder
- 722100: Sheet Metal Worker
- 722300: Service Technician, Iron and Metal
- 722300: Industrial Technician
- 722300: CNC-operator
- 723110: Mechanic, passenger cars and vans
- 723190: Bicycle mechanic
- 723300: Industrial Mechanic
- Handicraft and printing workers
- 731100: Precision mechanic
- Electrical and electronic trades workers
- Food processing, woodworking, garment and other craft and related trades workers
- Operator work at stationary plants and machines
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