UK Licensed Sponsor Search: Employers Licensed to Sponsor Workers
Search the Home Office register of organisations licensed to sponsor workers for a UK visa. The register below is rebuilt each week from the official GOV.UK publication, so what you see here is the current list — not a copy someone typed out months ago.
693 records found — showing page 1 of 28. Clear search
| Employer | Town or city | County | Licence | Routes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 The Kebab Kafe (just halal Kebabs) | Sheffield | South Yorkshire | Worker, A rating | Skilled Worker |
| 1OSD Ltd | Sheffield | — | Worker, A rating | Skilled Worker |
| 34 ST CURRYS LTD | Sheffield | — | Worker, A rating | Skilled Worker |
| 39 WM Limited | Sheffield | — | Worker, A rating | Skilled Worker |
| A K Grocers & Halal Meat | Sheffield | — | Worker, A rating | Skilled Worker |
| A M PROPERTIES | SHEFFIELD | — | Worker, A rating | Skilled Worker |
| A1 Taxis Sheffield Ltd | Sheffield | — | Worker, A rating | Skilled Worker |
| Aadipranavam Ltd T/as Durga Store | Sheffield | — | Worker, A rating | Skilled Worker |
| Abbey Care and Nursing @Home LTD | Sheffield | — | Worker, A rating | Skilled Worker |
| Abbey Glen Ltd | Sheffield | — | Worker, A rating | Skilled Worker |
| Abbeydale Super Store LTD | Sheffield | — | Worker, A rating | Skilled Worker |
| Abbeyfield Primary Academy | SHEFFIELD | South Yorkshire | Worker, A rating | Skilled Worker |
| Abtech Ltd | Sheffield | South Yorkshire | Worker, A rating | Skilled Worker |
| Acquire Learning College LTD | Sheffield | South Yorkshire | Worker, A rating | Skilled Worker |
| AD Property Training Ltd | SHEFFIELD | South Yorkshire | Worker, A rating | Skilled Worker |
| ADA CO ACCOUNTS LTD | sheffield | — | Worker, A rating | Skilled Worker |
| Advanced Metal Innovation Co. Ltd | Sheffield | — | Worker, A rating | Skilled Worker |
| Advanced Visualisation Technologies Ltd T/A Digital Autopsy UK | Sheffield | — | Worker, A rating | Skilled Worker |
| AEGIQ LTD | Sheffield | — | Temporary Worker, A rating | Government Authorised Exchange / Skilled Worker |
| AGES AGO LIMITED | Sheffield | — | Worker, A rating | Skilled Worker |
| Agilio Software Bidco Ltd. | Sheffield | — | Worker, A rating | Global Business Mobility: Senior or Specialist Worker / Skilled Worker |
| AGS Service Station | Sheffield | South Yorkshire | Worker, A rating | Skilled Worker |
| AHAD TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED | Sheffield | South Yorkshire | Worker, A rating | Skilled Worker |
| AJ Asociatii Limited | Sheffield | — | Worker, A rating | Skilled Worker |
| AL MADINA TRAVEL SERVICES LIMITED | SHEFFIELD | — | Worker, A rating | Skilled Worker |
Source: GOV.UK Register of licensed sponsors (workers), refreshed weekly. A licence means the employer is permitted to sponsor workers on the routes shown; it does not mean the employer has vacancies, or that it will sponsor any particular applicant. The register carries no address, licence number or contact details.
What this register actually is
An employer cannot simply hire someone who needs a work visa. It first has to hold a sponsor licence from the Home Office, and the Home Office publishes the full list of organisations that hold one. That list is the register you are searching above.
The register answers one question and one question only: is this organisation permitted to sponsor workers, and on which routes? That is genuinely useful, because an employer without a licence cannot sponsor you no matter how well the interview goes. But the register is not a jobs board and it is not a shortlist of employers who want to hire from overseas. Most of the organisations on it will sponsor nobody this year.
How to read a result
Each row gives the employer’s name, the town or city on its licence, the county where the Home Office recorded one, the licence type and rating, and the visa routes the licence covers.
Licence type
“Worker” licences cover the longer-term employment routes — Skilled Worker, Minister of Religion, International Sportsperson. “Temporary Worker” licences cover time-limited routes such as Creative Worker, Charity Worker, Seasonal Worker and Government Authorised Exchange. An organisation can hold both, and many do.
Rating
An A rating is the normal state: the licence is in good standing. A B rating means the Home Office has put the sponsor on an action plan to correct something, and its ability to issue new Certificates of Sponsorship is restricted while that plan runs. A B rating is not a reason to rule an employer out, but it is worth knowing before you count on a job offer from one.
Routes
The route is the part most people skim and shouldn’t. An employer licensed only for Global Business Mobility: Senior or Specialist Worker can move staff in from its own overseas offices — it cannot sponsor an external applicant on a Skilled Worker visa. If you are applying from outside the company, the route you almost always need to see is Skilled Worker.
What the register does not tell you
This matters more than anything else on the page, so it is worth being blunt. The published register contains no street address, no licence number, no contact details, no website, no industry classification and no licence dates. It also contains no indication of whether the employer has ever sponsored anyone, how many people it sponsors, or whether it is hiring now.
Two further traps are worth naming. Organisations appear under the name on the licence, which may be a holding company or a legal name you would not recognise from the brand on the door — so search for the shortest distinctive part of a name rather than the full trading style. And the town shown is the one recorded on the licence, usually a head office, not necessarily the place where the work is.
How often this is updated
The Home Office revises the register on most working days as licences are granted, suspended and revoked. We rebuild this copy from the GOV.UK file every week and show the publication date alongside the search box, so you can see how current it is. If an employer was added or removed in the last few days, check the original GOV.UK publication before relying on it.
Using the register in a real job search
The register works best as a filter rather than a starting point. Find the roles you actually want first, then check whether the employers behind them hold a licence and whether that licence covers Skilled Worker. An employer that is not on the register is a dead end for a sponsored role; one that is on it is a maybe.
It also pays to search by town. If you are willing to move, the concentration figures above show where licensed employers cluster — London holds more than a quarter of all records on its own, and after that the numbers fall away quickly, which tells you something useful about where sponsored work is realistically found.
If you are looking at the education sector in particular, our UK salary guides and the current vacancy listings cover what schools and colleges actually advertise and what they pay, which is the other half of the question the register cannot answer.
What we found in this data
We counted the whole register rather than just publishing a search box. These are the results:
- How many UK employers can sponsor a visa? — 127,640 sponsors counted, about one in twelve UK employing businesses, and what the eighteen routes actually break down to.
- Where the UK’s visa sponsors actually are — the top twenty towns, the nations, and why Aberdeen, Stoke-on-Trent and Belfast each specialise in a different route.
- A sponsor licence does not mean they will sponsor you — one sponsor in twenty-four holds no Skilled Worker licence at all.
- Which UK schools and colleges can sponsor a visa? — we matched 2,922 education employers against the register; multi-academy trusts hold licences at nine times the rate of single schools.
A note on what this page is not
This is a search interface over a public dataset, published for information. It is not immigration advice, and we have no relationship with the organisations listed. Visa requirements — salary and skill thresholds, English language, the Certificate of Sponsorship process — are set by the Home Office and change; check GOV.UK or speak to a qualified adviser before making decisions. If you believe an entry is wrong, the correction has to come from the Home Office publication, not from us.