UK to MELBOURNE · Working Holiday Visa 417

Move to Melbourne.

On site in your first week.

You do not need Australian experience, a sponsor, or a job before you fly. You need your tickets, a British passport and a White Card. Below: what the work pays in Melbourne, what it costs to live here, and where to land.

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The widest choice of civil work in the country.

Nobody spare to do it.


26°C

summer average

Afternoons in January, on Bureau of Meteorology averages.

$602/wk

A WEEK TO LIVE

Rent, food, getting to work and a social life. Broken down below.

5.4M

PEOPLE IN GREATER MELBOURNE

Big enough for the work, small enough to find your feet.

Civil and commercial builders across Victoria are competing for the same crews, which is what has pulled rates to where they are. Rates from our own salary guide. Rents and everyday prices checked 24 September 2026.

WHAT MELBOURNE IS SHORT OF

More work than there are people to do it


Civil and commercial builders across Victoria are chasing the same crews. You are not asking anyone to take a chance on you, you are filling a seat that has been empty for months.

Operators. Sparkies.

Plumbers. Chippies.


See the type of roles we recruit for

Flight booked, or just looking?

Both are worth a conversation, and they are different ones. Flight booked and we work to your landing date. Still deciding, and we send you the numbers and leave you to it.