diff --git a/METADATA_SUPPORT.md b/METADATA_SUPPORT.md
index 44f061f30b..43a67f8708 100644
--- a/METADATA_SUPPORT.md
+++ b/METADATA_SUPPORT.md
@@ -484,7 +484,7 @@ To contribute a new metadata type, please see the [Contributing Metadata Types t
 |SiteDotCom|✅||
 |SiteSettings|✅||
 |Skill|✅||
-|SkillType|❌|Not supported, but support could be added|
+|SkillType|✅||
 |SlackApp|✅||
 |SocialCustomerServiceSettings|✅||
 |SocialProfileSettings|✅||
diff --git a/src/registry/metadataRegistry.json b/src/registry/metadataRegistry.json
index 7d32c578a5..d3d0c1a7c8 100644
--- a/src/registry/metadataRegistry.json
+++ b/src/registry/metadataRegistry.json
@@ -1699,6 +1699,13 @@
       "directoryName": "skills",
       "inFolder": false
     },
+    "skilltype": {
+      "id": "skilltype",
+      "name": "SkillType",
+      "suffix": "skilltype",
+      "directoryName": "skilltypes",
+      "inFolder": false
+    },
     "livechatdeployment": {
       "id": "livechatdeployment",
       "name": "LiveChatDeployment",
@@ -3631,6 +3638,7 @@
     "transactionSecurityPolicy": "transactionsecuritypolicy",
     "policy": "appointmentassignmentpolicy",
     "skill": "skill",
+    "skilltype": "skilltype",
     "liveChatDeployment": "livechatdeployment",
     "liveChatButton": "livechatbutton",
     "liveChatAgentConfig": "livechatagentconfig",