Register of Licensed Sponsors 2026
The Register of Licensed Sponsors is the UK Home Office's official list of companies that can sponsor a visa in the UK. These are the employers approved to sponsor overseas workers on Skilled Worker and other UK work visas. Search the full list below, or filter by industry, visa route, or recent hiring activity. Just checking one employer? Use the sponsor licence checker instead.
Last synced 18 July 2026 · Source: gov.uk
Companies (Licensed Sponsors)
Results are prioritized by recent visa sponsorship activity and active job postings, helping you focus on employers most likely to sponsor.
1st Formations is the UK's leading company formation agent. Founded in 2014, we have formed over 1 million companies and assisted many thousands of clients to grow their business with expert advice on limited companies, reporting requirements, and corporate governance. Customer service excellence is the driving force of what we do. Our highly trained team is devoted to supporting our customers before, during, and after the company formation process. As a certified B Corp, we are committed to p
At Immediate, we’re home to some of the biggest and most loved consumer brands in the UK, including Radio Times, Good Food, Nutracheck, HistoryExtra and BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine. Our trusted, quality content reaches millions of people a month across digital, print, video, podcasts, apps, live events, tools and services. We’re the destination for people looking to get more joy from the things they love – helping to inspire them, deepen their knowledge, skills and fuel their passions.
At Rutherford, we focus on compliance and legal recruitment within the financial, real estate and legal services sectors, with London and New York being our core focus. We use our carefully curated relationships, networks and market knowledge to find the best fit for the clients in hand. Every day we are building relationships with future legal and governance leaders and identifying the problem solvers, strategic thinkers and innovators.
It is the aim of Axis Recruitment to promote an independent, respected and dignified nursing and healthcare service to all of our clients and candidates at all times by reliable, dedicated and compassionate members of staff regardless of gender, race, age, or disability.
A WPP company, Design Bridge and Partners is a global brand design agency. With 850 creative minds across 16 studios worldwide, we design brands with the power to move people, stirring emotion to drive action. Experts in brand strategy, brand identity, brand experience and brand effectiveness, we work in partnership with our clients to build and translate emotion into equity, ultimately designing what brands stand for into how they stand out. Globally our clients include the BBC, Coca-Cola, D
A definitive statement of excellence in private education, Inspired is a co-educational, non-denominational, independent school group designed to inspire students from ages 1 to 18 to achieve their maximum potential in a nurturing, progressive academic environment. Inspired offers a fresh and contemporary approach to education by re-evaluating traditional teaching methods and curricula, and creating a more dynamic, relevant and powerful model reflecting current attitudes. We nurture the unique i
H&P Executive Search is a specialist legal executive search firm advising private practice law firms and in-house legal teams on high-stakes leadership decisions across global markets. We operate at moments of inflection – platform growth, strategic expansion, succession planning, value creation, and leadership transition – where judgement, timing, and discretion are critical. With an established international presence and a strategic US hub in Miami, we combine deep local market intelligence
You'd be forgiven for thinking there's nothing normal about Taylor Hopkinson. After all, the careers we recruit for in renewable energy aren't normal. The specialists who fill these roles aren't normal. And the pioneering projects we support are very far from normal. But the truth is that our people are simply too normal to be normal recruitment consultants. Too normal to ghost or gaslight. Too normal to hound and pester. And much too normal to put our own needs before our candidates' and cl
Durlston Partners have specialised in building Hedge Funds, Family Offices, AI and Digital Asset Firms for over 15 years, across the globe, with offices in London, New York, Dubai and Mumbai. We provide talent, market intelligence, capital and world class events, globally. We apply a human touch, kindness and deep insight into building robust teams that stand the test of time, building world class firms from the ground up through the top Quantitative Portfolio Manager, Traders, Software / AI
Cavendish Nuclear is a core part of Babcock International Group’s Nuclear Sector. We provide a comprehensive range of critical nuclear solutions across the markets of Clean Energy, Defence and Civil Decommissioning, both in the UK and internationally. From decommissioning redundant nuclear facilities, through supporting the Continuous at Sea Deterrent, to supporting the operation and build of nuclear power plants, our role in Cavendish Nuclear is to clean up the nuclear legacy and create a worl
Frequently asked questions
What is the Register of Licensed Sponsors? The register is the Home Office's official list of UK employers approved to sponsor overseas workers on Skilled Worker, Health and Care Worker, and other sponsored visa routes. Each row shows the organisation, its town, the visa routes its licence covers, and its rating (A or B).
Yes. The Home Office publishes it on gov.uk as a downloadable spreadsheet, and we sync from it daily so you can actually search it: filter by industry, visa route, location, or recent hiring activity.