Sponsorship jobs in the UK: every live listing

• NHS jobs
• Care jobs
• Support worker jobs
• Healthcare assistant jobs
• Nursing jobs
• Jobs in Scotland
• Care jobs in Scotland
• Teaching jobs

Almost every overseas hire into a UK job goes through one of two visa routes. The Skilled Worker visa is the general route: it covers eligible occupations in any sector, from software engineering to teaching, and is the successor to Tier 2 (General). The Health and Care Worker visa is a branch of the same route for qualified doctors, nurses, midwives, allied health professionals and a list of other health occupations working for the NHS, an NHS supplier or an adult social care provider. It carries a lower application fee and exemption from the Immigration Health Surcharge, but the same licence, occupation and salary rules. Both routes end in the same place: a job offer from an employer the Home Office has licensed to sponsor.

The order of events is fixed by the rules, which is why this board starts from the employer rather than the advert. First, the employer holds a sponsor licence; the public register lists every licensed organisation. Second, the employer offers the job and decides to sponsor the hire. Third, the employer assigns a Certificate of Sponsorship, an electronic record with a reference number that describes the job, its occupation code and the salary. Fourth, the worker applies for the visa, normally within three months of the certificate being assigned. Nothing in that chain happens out of order, and only the employer can take the second and third steps. Our guide to how to get visa sponsorship in the UK walks through each step, and the Certificate of Sponsorship guide explains what the document is and what it is not. A worker who later moves to a different employer needs a new certificate from the new sponsor and a fresh application; the changing employer on a Skilled Worker visa guide covers that.

A job is only eligible when its occupation code is on the Skilled Worker eligible list and the salary clears two bars at once: the general threshold, £41,700 a year at the time of writing (checked against GOV.UK on 5 Sept 2026), and the going rate the Home Office publishes for that occupation code. The higher of the two applies. A reduced general threshold of £33,400applies in defined cases, including new entrants at the start of their careers, some PhD holders and occupations on the Immigration Salary List, although the occupation’s going rate still has to be met in full. Health and care occupations paid on national pay scales, such as Agenda for Change, are measured against those scales, and GOV.UK publishes separate, lower general thresholds for them. Since 22 July 2025 the skill level for the main route has been RQF Level 6, with a time-limited Temporary Shortage List giving some medium-skilled occupations access for now. Every listing here shows its classified occupation code, and where the advert discloses a salary the card states, in words, how it compares with the applicable threshold. The salary threshold page has the published figures and the salary calculator compares any offer against them.

The Immigration Salary List replaced the Shortage Occupation List in April 2024. It is shorter than its predecessor and its only effect is the discount on the general threshold described above; it no longer discounts the going rate. The Immigration Salary List page tracks which occupations are on it. Separately, every applicant on either route has to prove English at the level GOV.UK sets for the route, by an approved test, a degree taught in English or nationality of a majority English-speaking country. The rules for all of this are published on GOV.UK, which is the authority; for a view on an individual case, an adviser registered with the Immigration Advice Authority is the right person to ask.

An NHS trust is a statutory body that runs hospital, community, mental health or ambulance services in England; Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland use health boards and trusts of their own. Each is a separate legal employer with its own sponsor licence, which is why the register lists hundreds of NHS bodies rather than one. Taken together, NHS trusts and health boards are the largest group of licensed sponsors in the UK, and most clinical occupations sit on the Health and Care Worker branch of the route.

Most NHS adverts on this board come straight from NHS Jobs, the official NHS recruitment service, through its published feed. We match the advertising trust or board to the Home Office register before a listing appears, keep it live until its closing date, and show the Agenda for Change band when the advertised range is an exact England band. Unlike most job adverts, an NHS advert has a hard closing date and is usually withdrawn as soon as it passes, so the date is on every card and an application after it is rarely read. The NHS visa sponsorship jobs hub collects these listings, nursing visa sponsorship jobs narrows them to registered nursing posts, and healthcare assistant visa sponsorship jobs covers the Band 2 and 3 support roles.

NHS pay bands (Agenda for Change) 2026/27

A band is a pay level, not a job title. NHS listings show their band when the advertised range is an exact England band; London weighting and the Scottish and Welsh scales differ.

The Home Office closed this occupation to new overseas Skilled Worker and Health and Care visa applications on 22 July 2025. Transitional rules for people already working in the UK in this occupation run until 22 July 2028; GOV.UK has the current rules.

Care worker and senior care worker adverts (SOC 6135 and 6136) are the largest single block of health and care vacancies in the UK and the busiest search cluster for this board. Until 22 July 2025both occupations were on the Health and Care Worker route. In practice the change means a care home or domiciliary agency can still hold a licence, still advertise and still sponsor in the narrow transitional cases, but cannot sponsor a new applicant from overseas into these codes. We show care listings because the vacancies are real and people search for them, and we attach the note above to every card so the route position is never hidden behind a salary. Care listings never carry a salary verdict and never match the “meets the threshold” filter, because the comparison would imply a route that is closed.

Titles are the usual trap. “Support worker” is used both for care roles that classify to the closed codes and for NHS healthcare support roles that do not, so the occupation code on the card is the thing to read, not the title. The care visa sponsorship jobs hub collects care adverts, and support worker visa sponsorship jobs does the same for support worker titles, with the note wherever it applies. Transitional rules for people already working in the UK in these occupations run until 22 July 2028; GOV.UK sets out the conditions, and an adviser registered with the Immigration Advice Authority can say how they bear on a particular case. The Scottish subset, where care providers are a large share of licensed sponsors, is on Scotland care visa sponsorship jobs.

Most people searching for sponsorship jobs in the UK have a sector or a city in mind before they have an employer. The hubs below are the same listings grouped that way, each at a static address with its own introduction and occupation breakdown, so that the page for NHS and healthcare jobs or for jobs in Manchester can be bookmarked, shared and indexed. A hub exists only while it holds enough listings from enough different employers to be worth a page; one that falls below that floor is withdrawn rather than left thin, which is why the lists here change from week to week.

Sectors: NHS and healthcare, Social care and care homes, IT and software, Engineering, Construction and surveying, Hospitality and chefs, Education, Councils and public sector.

Cities: jobs in London, jobs in Birmingham, jobs in Manchester, jobs in Leeds, jobs in Liverpool, jobs in Bristol. Scotland as a whole, where the mix of employers differs from England, has its own page at .

Every employer on this board has already been matched to the Home Office register of licensed sponsors, and that match is re-run daily. The same check is open to anyone, free, for any employer: the sponsor licence check searches the register by name and shows the route, the licence rating, the registered town and when the organisation first appeared. The UK sponsor list breaks the whole register down by sector and region and lists the organisations added and removed each month. Each employer page also carries a Hiring Likelihood Score, a 0–100 indicator built from public data: licence rating, time on the register, Companies House filings and current adverts. It describes how active and established an organisation looks; it is not a measure of whether it sponsors, and employers cannot pay to change it. A licence is the precondition for sponsorship, not a promise of it, and a listing’s presence on this board says nothing about the employer’s intentions for that vacancy.