Positive Lists For Graduates, Skilled Workers Updated In July 2024

Effective July 1, 2024, the Danish Agency for International Recruitment and Integration has updated the Positive Lists for both graduates and skilled workers. The new Positive List for People with a Higher Education includes 141 job titles (up from the previous 72), while the Positive List for Skilled Work includes 61 job titles (up from the previous 38). Danish authorities have explained that the marked increase in listed roles is partly due to an underlying labor shortage as well as several positions appearing multiple times under different DISCO codes (a Danish system for coding occupations).

Notable additions to the Higher Education Positive List include: operations or construction managers, project or information technology leaders, electrical engineers, data analysts, programmers, and system developers.