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KNDS DEFENCE UK LIMITED is a private limited company (Companies House number 00310308), incorporated in February 1936, with its registered office in Stockport. Companies House lists its business as manufacture of other fabricated metal products n.e.c. and manufacture of other special-purpose machinery n.e.c..
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From the Home Office register of licensed sponsors and Companies House, checked 3 Nov 2026.
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Yes. KNDS DEFENCE UK LIMITED is on the Home Office register of licensed sponsors for the Skilled Worker and Global Business Mobility: Senior or Specialist Worker routes.
It holds an active sponsor licence for the Skilled Worker and Global Business Mobility: Senior or Specialist Worker routes. Whether a particular role is sponsored is up to the employer; the licence only means it is allowed to.
The register lists KNDS DEFENCE UK LIMITED for 2 routes: Skilled Worker (A rating) and Global Business Mobility: Senior or Specialist Worker (A rating).
KNDS DEFENCE UK LIMITED was first seen on the Home Office register of licensed sponsors in January 2025. We have no copy of the register for the time before that, so it may have been listed earlier.
KNDS DEFENCE UK LIMITED is registered with Companies House under company number 00310308, with its registered office in Stockport.
The register gives a rating for each route: Skilled Worker (A rating) and Global Business Mobility: Senior or Specialist Worker (A rating).
Companies House lists KNDS DEFENCE UK LIMITED under manufacture of other fabricated metal products n.e.c. and manufacture of other special-purpose machinery n.e.c..
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Yes. It sponsored workers every year from 2021 to 2025.
In 2025 it sponsored between 1 and 99 workers.
It sponsored workers in 8 different jobs in 2024 or 2025.
1 of them has been closed to new Skilled Worker applicants from outside the UK since 22 July 2025.
From Home Office figures on certificates of sponsorship, which an employer gives each worker it sponsors.
12 job adverts we have matched to KNDS DEFENCE UK LIMITED, 11 still open, in 6 occupations.
Posted December 2025 to February 2026
Posted October 2026
Posted March 2026
Posted November 2026
Posted February 2026
Posted September 2026
The occupation of each group is in the employer check.
5 more adverts have titles we could not match to one occupation code.
First seen on the register in January 2025. We have no copy of the register for the time before that, so it may have been listed earlier. No changes to its licence since then.
Built by comparing daily copies of the Home Office register from January 2023.
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1 other licensed sponsor in Stockport has the same industry code: manufacture of other fabricated metal products n.e.c. (25990).