UK Sponsor Register Changes by Month

884

Added in September 2026

Organisations that appeared on the register for the first time.

919

Removed in September 2026

Licences that left the register. The register does not publish the reason.

-35

Net change

Additions minus removals across the whole register copy.

Organisations added and removed, by month

Calendar months, UTC. The current month is in progress and will change until it ends.

Month	Added	Removed	Net
October 2026so far	85	0	+85
September 2026	884	919	-35
August 2026	1,146	1,960	-814
July 2026	1,234	0	+1,234
June 2026	820	0	+820

Where new licences went in September 2026

Organisations added, by the sector of their Companies House industry code.

Towns with the most new licences in September 2026

By the town the organisation gives on the register.

London268
Manchester22
Birmingham16
Glasgow13
Edinburgh10
Leeds10
Leicester8
Coventry8
Bradford7
Cambridge7

How these figures are made

The Home Office publishes the register of licensed sponsors as a spreadsheet, most working days, with no history. SkilledJobs downloads it every week and keeps every copy. An organisation counts as added in the month it first appears in our copies and as removed in the month it stops appearing. Both columns count the whole register, including organisations we do not publish a page for, so they share one denominator. The month the mirror started is left out: its first-seen dates are the initial import, not new licences.

The sector breakdown uses the primary industry code of the organisation at Companies House, folded into the same categories as the sponsor list by sector; organisations without a usable match are grouped as other sectors. The register itself does not say why a licence ended, so this page says removed and nothing more. The organisations behind the latest figures are listed on recently added sponsors, and any single employer can be checked with the free sponsor licence check.

Common questions

How often does the Home Office register of licensed sponsors change?

The Home Office publishes the register most working days. Organisations appear when a licence is granted and disappear when a licence ends, so the list moves every week. This page keeps a weekly copy and counts the organisations that appeared or left in each calendar month.

Does a removal mean the licence was revoked?

Not necessarily. The register does not publish the reason an organisation leaves it: a licence can be surrendered, allowed to expire, suspended or revoked, and a company can change name or merge. We say removed, never revoked, because removed is all the data shows.

Why do your monthly figures differ from the total change in the GOV.UK file?

Two reasons. We count every organisation in our copy of the register, including ones we do not publish a page for, so additions and removals share one denominator. And an organisation can be added and removed in the same month, which counts once in each column. The month the mirror started is left out because its first-seen dates are our initial import, not licences being granted.

Can I use these figures?

Yes. Cite the page and the month. The underlying source is the public Home Office register of licensed sponsors, published under the Open Government Licence; the monthly counts and the sector and town breakdowns are our own derived data, rebuilt daily.

Rating downgrades and route changes, month by month, are on sponsor licence data for employers.

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