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These roles are advertised by employers that hold a Skilled Worker sponsor licence. A licence means the employer can sponsor workers — it does not mean this particular vacancy is open to sponsorship. Always confirm with the employer before applying.
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As of 10 October 2026, SkilledJobs lists 5,559 current UK vacancies at 1,145 employers holding a Skilled Worker sponsor licence on the Home Office register. London has the most (505); the most listed occupation is specialist medical practitioners (614). Salary rules are national: generally £41,700 or the going rate, if higher. The licence is the employer's, not the vacancy's.
Figures as of Register checked
Jobs at licensed sponsors are UK vacancies at employers that appear on the Home Office register of licensed sponsors. This board lists current job adverts, keeps only those from employers matched to the register, re-checks the register weekly and compares each advertised salary with the published threshold for its occupation code. The licence belongs to the employer, not the vacancy.
Indexable views of the same listings, grouped the way people search for them.
A 0–100 indicator on every employer, built only from public data. It measures how active and established a licensed sponsor looks — nothing more.
It is not a prediction that an employer will sponsor you, and not a ranking of how good they are to work for. Employers cannot influence or pay to change it. A high score means an organisation looks active and well established; the decision to sponsor any particular hire is still entirely theirs. Read the full methodology.
Two visa routes, one fixed sequence of events, and two salary bars. Knowing them first saves applying to employers who cannot take the hire.
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.
Hundreds of separate NHS employers, each with its own licence, most of them advertising through NHS Jobs.
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.
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.
| Band | Pay range | Typical roles |
|---|---|---|
| Band 2 |
Care worker and senior care worker adverts are shown, always with the same note, and never with a salary verdict.
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.
The same listings grouped the way people search for them, each at its own static address.
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 Bristol, jobs in Manchester, jobs in Leeds, jobs in Liverpool. Scotland as a whole, where the mix of employers differs from England, has its own page at .
The register check behind every listing is free to run on any employer, including one that contacts you directly.
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.
| £25,272 |
| Healthcare assistant, domestic, porter |
| Band 3 | £25,760–£27,476 | Senior healthcare assistant, phlebotomist |
| Band 4 | £28,392–£31,157 | Assistant practitioner, nursing associate |
| Band 5 | £32,073–£39,043 | Newly registered nurse, physiotherapist, paramedic |
| Band 6 | £39,959–£48,117 | Senior staff nurse, specialist practitioner |
| Band 7 | £49,387–£56,515 | Ward sister or charge nurse, advanced practitioner |
| Band 8a | £57,528–£64,750 | Modern matron, lead practitioner |
| Band 8b | £66,582–£77,368 | Service manager, principal practitioner |
| Band 8c | £79,504–£91,609 | Head of service |
| Band 8d | £94,356–£108,814 | Senior head of service |
| Band 9 | £115,052–£132,053 | Director-level roles |
Registration comes before the offer. A nurse or midwife needs registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), a doctor with the General Medical Council (GMC), and an allied health professional such as a physiotherapist, paramedic or radiographer with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC). Each regulator runs its own overseas route, usually a qualification check, an English test and, for nurses, a competence test. Trusts generally make an offer conditional on registration being in place or in progress, so an NHS application often runs alongside a registration one. The band on an advert is a pay level rather than a job title: a newly registered nurse starts at Band 5, and senior and specialist posts sit at Band 6 and above. Compare any salary with the published rates on the Skilled Worker salary threshold page.
Each hub lists the occupation codes present in it, which is the quickest way to see whether a sector’s adverts are mostly in occupations on the eligible list, as with nursing, software engineering and secondary teaching, or mostly in occupations that are not, as with care and most hospitality roles other than chefs. Teaching adverts from schools and multi-academy trusts are collected on teaching visa sponsorship jobs. The sector and city pages do not widen what is shown anywhere else on the site; they only group it, and the employer behind every advert has passed the same register check.