Software companies, IT services firms and the technology functions inside every other sector recruit through licensed agencies across Ireland, and most technology unit groups are named on the Critical Skills Occupations List.
Technology is the most consistently listed sector in the permit system. Programmers and software development professionals, IT business analysts, architects and systems designers, IT project and programme managers and IT specialist managers are each named on the Critical Skills Occupations List. Support and operations unit groups are named on neither published list.
Most technology groups are named on the Critical Skills list; the support and operations groups are named on neither.
Information Technology and Telecommunications Professionals
Critical Skills list
Information Technology and Telecommunications Professionals
Critical Skills list
Information Technology and Telecommunications Professionals
Critical Skills list
Information Technology and Telecommunications Professionals
Critical Skills list
Information Technology and Telecommunications Professionals
Critical Skills list
Information Technology Technicians
Not named on either list
Named on neither published list, which is not the same as being named on either.
Lists effective 13 May 2026 (SI 213 of 2026). Official sources: Critical Skills List · Ineligible List. Being named on a list is a fact about a published table, not a decision about any application.
From the current Workplace Relations Commission licence register.
Sector is taken from an agency's own published description during record review, and most of the register has not been reviewed for it. Agencies recruiting for software and it are very likely in the directory without the sector recorded, so browse the full register or search it by name.
Software and IT work carries no statutory personal register in Ireland. What employers do ask about is qualification comparison and, in regulated industries, the client side rules that apply to the work itself.
Recognition and comparison of computing and engineering qualifications awarded outside Ireland.
The Critical Skills Occupations List entries for technology occupations, the salary thresholds attached to permit types, and the current application requirements.
Employment rights that apply regardless of permit status, including contracts, pay and working time.
Ordered by published permit activity in the same period, so the ranking is one the source supports.
Hospital groups, nursing homes, home care providers and disability services sit at the top of Ireland's published employment permit statistics, and most clinical roles answer to a registration body before anyone can practise here.
Medtech, pharmaceutical, food and precision engineering plants recruit through licensed agencies across Ireland, and the permit position changes sharply between the technical roles and the process operative groups.
Hotels, restaurants and contract catering recruit year round, and the permit position for kitchen roles turns on the exact grade and the years of experience named in the published DETE row.
Every licensed agency on this page comes from the WRC register. Advantage adds presence on the sector and occupation pages your roles belong to; Premier takes the sponsored position at the top of the sectors you name.
Occupation lists: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment, effective 13 May 2026 (SI 213 of 2026). Occupation classification: SOC 2010.
Permit statistics: DETE employment permit statistics (Year to date: January–July 2026).
Agency records: Workplace Relations Commission licensed employment agency list, source date 1 August 2026.
An occupation (SOC) code classifies the kind of work. It does not by itself determine permit eligibility, Critical Skills status, or sponsorship. Job duties, salary, employer and permit route also matter.
Figures are historical issued-permit records showing past activity only. They do not prove current hiring, future sponsorship, role eligibility, or approval.
A WRC licence listing is official source data. It is not a government endorsement, proof of current vacancies, or proof of sponsorship capability. IrishTalents enrichment is labelled separately.
IrishTalents is not a licensed employment agency and does not select or submit candidates. Any agency information reflects the wording found on agency websites only, not vacancies, sponsorship, or suitability.
This is general information, not legal or immigration advice. IrishTalents is not affiliated with the Irish government.
