Visa sponsors by location
The Home Office publishes sponsor addresses in a spreadsheet, not on a map. This is the same register by place: 114,534 licensed visa sponsors across 907 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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114,534 sponsors in the UK
Health Education England
Amazon UK Services Ltd
Tesco Stores Limited
DELOITTE LLP
EY
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
Cognizant Worldwide Limited
PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS AS LLP
Abbeydale Super Store LTD
NEXT RETAIL LIMITED
Barchester HealthcareR Verma Retail LTD t/a One Stop
Mitchells & Butlers PLC
Kings College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
KPMG LLP
Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
The Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
Accenture (UK) Limited
WSP GROUP LIMITED
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS TrustDrag 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.
London
Frequently asked questions
Is the mark where I’d actually work?
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.
Which places have the most sponsors?
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.
Why search by postcode instead of city name?
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.