How SkilledJobs works

SkilledJobs is an independent publisher. We combine official Home Office sponsor register data with Companies House enrichment and (when available) Adzuna job snapshots. Nothing here is immigration advice.

Hiring Likelihood Score (0–100)

The Hiring Likelihood Score is a composite indicator built from public signals. It helps you prioritise sponsors to research — it is not a guarantee of sponsorship or a job offer.

• Sponsor licence rating — A-rated on the Home Office register: +25. Any other rating scores nothing for this signal.
• Time on the sponsor register — first appeared on the register more than three years ago: +15.
• Recent Companies House accounts — accounts made up to a date within the last 12 months: +15. Within 18 months: +8. Companies House records the end of the accounting period rather than the filing date, so a company that files perfectly on time will often sit just past 12 months.
• Confirmation statement — a confirmation statement made up to a date within the last 12 months: +15. Within 18 months: +8.
• Active job listings — one or more open roles found for the employer: +20.
• Recent director appointments — at least one recent appointment at Companies House: +10.

Points are summed and capped at 100. Sponsors whose licence has been removed score 0. Sponsors we cannot confidently match to a Companies House record are not scored at all — we show no score rather than a misleading one, because most of these signals depend on that match.

Data sources and refresh cadence

• Home Office sponsor register — synced daily from GOV.UK CSV releases. Licence status, rating, routes, and location fields drive sponsor pages and the check-sponsor tool.
• Companies House — matched to register rows where we find an exact or high-confidence link. Accounts filing dates, confirmation statements, and director appointments feed the score. Many sponsors still lack a confident match; enrichment runs asynchronously via Astora Hub.
• Adzuna job listings— ingested daily and matched to sponsors on the register. A listing is only shown when the employer match is exact or high-confidence, the advert was posted within 14 days, and our own copy of it is under 48 hours old — measured from our last complete ingest, so a failure on our side does not silently hide live vacancies, and never stretching beyond five days. Listings that fail any of those checks are not displayed, so a sponsor with no listings shown may still be advertising elsewhere. Occupation labels come from the job title, not from Adzuna's search categories. We show a licence held by the employer — never that a specific vacancy carries sponsorship. Job links go via Adzuna, as their terms require.
• SOC codes and salary thresholds — sourced from the GOV.UK Skilled Worker eligible occupations appendix. General thresholds: £41,700 standard / £33,400 new entrant (2026 data).

Last sponsor register sync: 24 August 2026.

Eligibility checker verdicts

The eligibility checker applies these rules in order:

1. Care worker closure — SOC 6135, 6136, and 6137 return NOT_ELIGIBLE regardless of salary (new overseas applications closed from 22 July 2025).
2. SOC not on eligible list — when the occupation is not flagged eligible in our database.
3. Below minimum salary — expected salary under £33,400.
4. ELIGIBLE — salary meets the general threshold (£41,700) and the occupation going rate (or general fallback when no going rate is published).
5. BORDERLINE — salary may qualify under new-entrant-style thresholds depending on circumstances.
6. NOT_ELIGIBLE — otherwise (salary below going rate and new entrant thresholds).

Sponsor matching uses SOC→SIC industry proxies, optional city and industry preferences, and the same Hiring Likelihood signals. See the eligibility checker for a worked example.

Limitations

Immigration rules change. Employer sponsorship decisions are discretionary. We do not know your full circumstances. Always confirm on GOV.UK or with a qualified immigration adviser before applying.