Spousal Visa-difficult to find a job?

My husband has a bachelors degree and an associates degree in Web Development (computer coding). Once he qualifies for a spousal visa, how hard to you think it will be for him to find a job in the Liverpool area? He doesn't have any UK experience, but tons of US experience.  He has no criminal background and has been continuously employed for 15+ years. Thoughts?

My professional background is different from your husband, but I've been here since May 13th and it took me about a month to land two interviews and and I received offers for both. I'm waiting for my DBS check to come back.

After I got my FLR visa allowing me to look for work in the summer of 2014, it took about 6 weeks for me to get a job. This was not a job that used my degree nor was it well paid. It was pretty much hell, but it helped me and my husband pay the bills.

After 4-5 months of that I started applying for jobs that would let me use my Mass Comm:PR degree. Ifound it a lot easier to get my foot in the door with the previous work experience in the UK.

I started my fantastic new job the last week of April. They even let me take 2 weeks off to go back to the US when I had only worked there for a month! After I got back from my 2 week trip to the US they even gave me a raise. All I can say, is sometimes it takes a little time to get to where you want to be. 

Best of luck! I am hoping to get something within a month or 6 weeks when I move back to Edinburgh (currently awaiting a settlement decision). However, I did live in Edinburgh from 2009-2012, and I found it very difficult to get a job that matched my experience. After I got my master's at Edinburgh Uni, I got a 2-year post-study work visa. I ended up having to temp the ENTIRE time. People didn't seem to want to deal with the complexities of hiring a person on a fixed-term visa, even though I had expressed interest in applying to extend the visa. And frankly, I did pick up on some anti-American sentiment. I'm hoping it'll be different this time around.


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I am currently going through the job process... I received my visa at the end of May and have landed two interviews (one of which was today).  I registered with a temp agency and haven't heard anything, I have applied to a number of part-time and temporary contract positions and haven't heard anything.  I guess I thought I would at least have a part-time or temporary position by now.  As far as a permanent position, I think it is the location that is working against me.  I worked in the UK before, but I'm not sure that it is really helping me at this point because it has been a few years.

I think everyone's experience is a bit different depending on the industry, but hopefully it won't take that long for him to find something!

thank you everyone! This is helpful for us as we budget this move!

I would just caution to be aware of lower starting salaries over here compared to the US if you are doing some budgeting.  Also, it took me 9 months to secure a job and my partner 8 last year after we arrived, and that was after applying for several hundred jobs (him) and almost a hundred (me).  Many times we got to final rounds only for the job to change, the job to be pulled, or to just be runner up.  It was a real grind, but we are in London and he is more at the start of his career and I was facing intense competition in my field (and I am at a pretty high salary band to boot). So essentially I think it may come down to how interchangable is your work experience and your fit with the company.  Name brand (uni/prior employer) also seemed pretty big down here, but I think that was more a way to weed people out.