UK Sponsor List: Companies Licensed to Sponsor Skilled Worker (Tier 2) Visas

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Sponsor register — verified 5 October 2026. Source: GOV.UK register of licensed sponsors.

Tier 2 (General) was the name of the main UK work visa from 2008 until 1 December 2020, when it was replaced by the Skilled Worker route under the reformed points-based system. The list of employers licensed to use it was, and still is, published by the Home Office as the register of licensed sponsors, which is why people still search for the Tier 2 sponsor list and why the name stays in our title. Licences granted under Tier 2 carried over to the new route, so a Tier 2 licence and a Skilled Worker licence describe the same permission.

The register itself is a spreadsheet with four columns: organisation name, town or city, the route or routes each licence covers, and the rating. Licences are grouped into two types. Worker covers the long-term routes, including Skilled Worker (of which Health and Care Worker is a branch), the Global Business Mobility routes such as Senior or Specialist Worker, Minister of Religion, International Sportsperson and Scale-up. Temporary Worker covers the time-limited routes, including Creative Worker, Charity Worker, Religious Worker, Government Authorised Exchange, International Agreement and Seasonal Worker. An organisation can hold both types, and only a Worker licence covering Skilled Worker is relevant to a long-term job offer.

A rating of A means the licence is in good standing and the sponsor can assign Certificates of Sponsorship. A rating of B means a Home Office compliance check found problems: the sponsor follows a time-limited action plan and cannot assign new certificates to workers until it is restored to an A-rating, although it keeps sponsoring the workers it already has. The Home Office publishes the register on GOV.UK most working days, as a snapshot with no history and no explanation of what changed. This page differs from that spreadsheet in three ways: we keep every weekly copy, so we can show when an organisation first appeared and when it left; we match organisations to Companies House to add sector, region and filings; and we link each one to its current job adverts. Entries we cannot match well enough to publish usefully are counted in the GOV.UK total but not here.

With a particular employer in mind, start with the search box at the top: type the name as it appears at Companies House, or part of it, and the result shows the route, the rating, the town and how long the organisation has been on the register. With no employer in mind, the sector table and the regional list below are the way in. Each figure links to the licensed organisations in that slice, and every organisation has its own page with its licence detail, Companies House record and current adverts.

The two lists of recent additions and removals are worth a glance on every visit. An organisation that has just been licensed has shown that it intends to sponsor someone, and one that has just left the register cannot sponsor anyone until it is back on. From any organisation page the jobs board shows its current adverts; the board as a whole shows every listing from licensed sponsors, filterable by occupation, city and salary. Employers use the same list to confirm their own entry, and the sponsor licence check runs the same search on one name.

Sector is derived from the organisation’s primary Companies House SIC code, so it is only shown where we hold a confident Companies House match. Organisations without one are counted in the total above but not in this table.

The UK cities with the most licensed visa sponsors page ranks the top fifty towns and cities, with each one’s share of the register and its additions and removals over the last 90 days.

• Visa sponsors in London3,664
• Visa sponsors in Manchester282
• Visa sponsors in Birmingham270
• Visa sponsors in Bristol166
• Visa sponsors in Cambridge143
• Visa sponsors in Glasgow132
• Visa sponsors in Edinburgh114
• Visa sponsors in Leicester106
• Visa sponsors in Reading90
• Visa sponsors in Nottingham88
• Visa sponsors in Leeds81
• Visa sponsors in Coventry73
• Visa sponsors in Sheffield69
• Visa sponsors in Cardiff59
• Visa sponsors in Liverpool57
• Visa sponsors in Belfast57
• Visa sponsors in Southampton53
• Visa sponsors in Oxford53
• Visa sponsors in Brighton39
• Visa sponsors in Newcastle upon Tyne35

• CAT EYES LimitedLincoln · No longer on the register
• Apna Punjab Mithai LimitedSouthall · No longer on the register
• Briggs of Burton PlcBurton on Trent · No longer on the register
• COMPANY4YOU.CO.UK LTDUxbridge · No longer on the register
• CARE 365 LIMITEDLONDON · No longer on the register
• The Big Table Group LimitedLondon · No longer on the register
• Briggs of Burton PLCBurton-on-Trent · No longer on the register
• Bluebell Residential Home LimitedHULL · No longer on the register
• CLEARBLUE ENTERPRISE LTDUxbridge · No longer on the register
• Bespoke Care (Sheffield) LimitedSheffield · No longer on the register
• ANCONA ENTERPRISE LTDUXBRIDGE · No longer on the register
• CAREER FORGE SOLUTIONS LIMITEDCanvey Island · No longer on the register

If you hold a Certificate of Sponsorship from an organisation on this list, check the position with the employer and, if needed, a regulated immigration adviser before your next step.