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Lead Server and Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board, Abergele, Bangor or Wrexham, United Kingdom. Permanent. Posted . Deadline 2026-10-29. Apply through the original listing
Visa Fit result
United Kingdom Visa FitCreate a profile before this job can be checked against a route: the threshold that applies depends on your age, studies and visa history.
Recommended pathway: Skilled Worker, standard. Too little job or profile data to check the route.
Top facts
- Offered salary
- £50,129 to £57,365
- Required salary
- £52,300
- Sponsor register
- Listed: The Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
- Role evidence
- Strong
Eligibility gates
Legal compatibility (the first four) is kept separate from employer willingness (the last). A licence proves capability, not intent.
On the sponsor register as The Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
Legal entity confirmed by JLocate. The Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board (Wrexham) is A-rated for Skilled Worker on the register file dated 15 October 2026. A licence shows the organisation can sponsor, not that it will sponsor this role.
Likely Information technology professionals not elsewhere classified (SOC 2139)
Inferred from the job title. The employer picks the code on the Certificate of Sponsorship, so ask them to confirm it.
£50,129 to £57,365 spans the £52,300 threshold
Only an offer of at least £52,300 qualifies for the Skilled Worker route, so ask where in the range it would be. Threshold basis: standard general threshold £41,700, or the GOV.UK going rate for SOC 2139 (£52,300), whichever is higher. Weekly hours are not stated, so a full-time role is assumed.
New-entrant status unknown
Add your age, immigration status and route history to check the new-entrant rate. The standard threshold is used until then.
Vacancy offers sponsorship
Direct role-level evidence. Get it confirmed in writing before you rely on it. Vacancy text: “Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.”
Career match
Whether the job is worth wanting, which is a different question from whether the route works. Nothing here changes the Visa Fit result above.
A career match needs to know what you are looking for. Add a profile and this becomes a score out of 100 across role, level, location, pay and how recently the vacancy was posted.
What is missing
- Where in the advertised range the offer would be
- Occupation code, which the employer has not confirmed
- Whether the new-entrant rate applies to you
- Weekly hours
What would change the result
A profile lets the check apply the right threshold to this job.
Ask the recruiter
Polite, specific, and written so the answer maps straight onto a gate above.
- Could you confirm the weekly hours the advertised salary is based on?
- If the role were sponsored, which occupation code (SOC code) would it be sponsored under?
- Would the offer be at least £52,300? The advertised range starts at £50,129, and £52,300 is the lowest salary that qualifies for the Skilled Worker route.
Evidence and assumptions
Rule sources
- Skilled Worker visa: overview
- Skilled Worker visa: your job and salary
- Skilled Worker visa: when you can be paid less
- Skilled Worker visa: eligible occupations and codes
- Skilled Worker visa: going rates for eligible occupation codes
- Skilled Worker visa: knowledge of English
- Immigration Rules: Appendix Skilled Worker
- Register of licensed sponsors: workers
Terms used
- Sponsor licence
- Permission an employer holds from the Home Office to sponsor workers. It shows capability, not a promise for any particular role.
- Occupation code
- The SOC code the employer puts on the Certificate of Sponsorship. It decides whether the job is eligible and which going rate applies.
- Going rate
- The salary floor for that occupation code. The job must pay the general threshold or the going rate, whichever is higher.
- New entrant
- A lower salary rate, 70% of the going rate and at least £33,400, if you are under 26, on a Student visa at bachelor’s level or above or a Graduate visa now or in the last two years, or working towards a recognised qualification, registration or chartered status in the job. Limited to four years in total, Graduate visa time included.
Vacancy text
A lead engineer in the North Wales health board's Server and Cloud Infrastructure team, managing a team of engineers and reporting to the team's architect. The post holder leads the server, storage, virtualisation, backup and recovery, data centre and monitoring services behind clinical and corporate systems, runs infrastructure changes and migrations, and is a senior escalation point in major incidents, within NHS security and governance rules. A degree in IT, computer science or engineering is essential; Infrastructure as Code (PowerShell, Ansible, Terraform) is desirable, and so is Welsh. Agenda for Change Band 7, permanent, full time.