The Home Office publishes sponsor addresses in a spreadsheet, not on a map. This is the same register by place: 102,323 licensed visa sponsors across 860 UK cities and towns, synced daily. All of them have a sponsor licence, which means they are allowed to hire workers from outside the UK on visas like the Skilled Worker visa. Search a postcode to see which of them are near you. Each mark is the sponsor’s registered address, which is not always where the job is. The full register lists every sponsor, including the ones these counts leave out. For a sector rather than a place, browse sponsors by industry, or go straight to the jobs they’re advertising.
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Drag or zoom the map and the list re-ranks to whatever area you are looking at — by where sponsors are, not by the city they entered on the register.
Often not. The mark is the address the sponsor gave the Home Office, usually a head office, sometimes their accountant’s. A company registered in Manchester can be hiring in Leeds. Use the map to find sponsors, then check the job posting for where the work actually is.
London has about a third of all licences, then Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds and Glasgow. Fewer sponsors isn’t automatically worse: a smaller town also has fewer people applying to each sponsored role.
Because the town field in the register is free text. The same city shows up as “Manchester”, “MANCHESTER” and “Gtr Manchester”, so a name search finds only the spelling you typed. We geocode every registered address instead, so a radius search around your postcode catches all three.
It means they can, not that they will. Open the company profile and look at its annual visa issuance: a sponsor that issues certificates every year hires from abroad by policy. A licence with no issuance behind it may never have been used.