Every UK employer that can sponsor your visa, in one place.
The Home Office publishes a register of every UK organisation licensed to sponsor a Skilled Worker. ResumeSpark Stay turns that raw register into a searchable directory you can actually use in your job search.
- Thousands of UK licensed sponsor employers
- Filter by industry, region, licence rating and company size
- Updated from the official gov.uk register
- See live open roles per sponsor when available
- Save shortlists to your ResumeSpark Stay account
What the UK sponsor list is
The 'Register of licensed sponsors: workers' is the official Home Office publication of every UK organisation authorised to sponsor a Skilled Worker (or Temporary Worker) visa. It's updated regularly and published as a downloadable spreadsheet on gov.uk.
The raw register is over 100,000 rows of company names, licence ratings and visa categories. It's accurate, but it's not designed for job seekers. ResumeSpark Stay enriches it with industry tagging, location normalisation and matching to live job adverts.
How to use the list strategically
Don't apply to every sponsor — there are too many. Instead, build a target list of 30–50 employers that match your sector, your seniority and your salary expectations.
Prioritise A-rated sponsors (the standard rating) that have issued Certificates of Sponsorship recently. Smaller scale-ups often face less competition than household-name FTSE 100 firms. Tech, healthcare, engineering, finance and academia have the densest sponsor coverage.
What 'licensed' actually means
A sponsor licence gives an employer the legal ability to issue a Certificate of Sponsorship — it doesn't compel them to. Some licensed sponsors sponsor heavily; others hold the licence for a handful of senior roles per year.
Use the sponsor list as a filter, not a guarantee. Combine it with sponsorship-likelihood scoring on individual job adverts to focus on roles where sponsorship is actually on the table.