This section covers business support services, including recruitment agencies, facilities management, security, cleaning contractors, call centres and travel agencies. Sponsored roles are usually managerial or specialist, such as operations and contract managers, HR and recruitment consultants and business support leads. Sponsorship uses the Skilled Worker route, and eligibility turns on the role clearing the skill threshold rather than on the sector.
There are 9,878 licensed visa sponsors in administrative & support services, with 12,418 live jobs between them. Sponsor figures come from the official Home Office register and are updated daily.
This list puts the sponsors most likely to hire first. To see which of them had the most certificates of sponsorship, read the top visa sponsors in administrative & support services.
In the year to June 2026, the Home Office granted 10,587 work visas to people applying from outside the UK for jobs with sponsors in administrative & support services. Farm workers (SOC 9111) had the most, with 7,841.
Recruitment agencies, facilities and security firms, and outsourced business-services providers hold licences here. Filter the live register to administrative and support services to see which are recruiting.
The Skilled Worker visa covers eligible roles offered by a licensed sponsor at the required salary and skill level. Management and specialist positions are more likely to qualify than frontline support roles, which often fall below the skill threshold.
Recruitment consultants, HR advisers and operations managers can be sponsored where the job meets the Skilled Worker skill and salary rules. Entry-level administrative and call-centre roles usually do not qualify, so the specific occupation code decides eligibility.
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| 7 | 3416 Arts officers, producers and directors | 115 |
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| 8 | 2129 Engineering professionals not elsewhere classified | 94 |
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| 9 | 2434 Business and related research professionals | 87 |
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| 10 | 2431 Management consultants and business analysts | 72 |
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These figures cover every sponsored work route, including seasonal and creative workers. They count the workers themselves, not their dependants, and only people who applied from outside the UK.
The sponsor chooses its own industry, so it may not match the work the visa was for.
Figures from January 2026 onwards are provisional and may still change.
Source: Home Office immigration system statistics, year ending June 2026, table Occ_D02 (not accredited official statistics).