Licensed sponsor
Licensed to sponsor the Skilled Worker route and 2 others from Reading, according to the Home Office register.
Thales UK Limited is a private limited company (Companies House number 00868273), incorporated in January 1966, with its registered office in Reading. Companies House lists its business as manufacture of electronic components, manufacture of communication equipment other than telegraph, and telephone apparatus and equipment and other engineering activities.
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From the Home Office register of licensed sponsors and Companies House, checked 6 Nov 2026.
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Yes. Thales UK Limited is on the Home Office register of licensed sponsors for the Skilled Worker, Global Business Mobility: Graduate Trainee and Global Business Mobility: Senior or Specialist Worker routes.
It holds an active sponsor licence for the Skilled Worker, Global Business Mobility: Graduate Trainee 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 Thales UK Limited for 3 routes: Skilled Worker (A rating), Global Business Mobility: Graduate Trainee (A rating) and Global Business Mobility: Senior or Specialist Worker (A rating).
Thales UK Limited was first seen on the Home Office register of licensed sponsors in January 2023. Our copies of the register start then, so it may have been listed earlier.
Thales UK Limited is registered with Companies House under company number 00868273, with its registered office in Reading.
The register gives a rating for each route: Skilled Worker (A rating), Global Business Mobility: Graduate Trainee (A rating) and Global Business Mobility: Senior or Specialist Worker (A rating).
Companies House lists Thales UK Limited under manufacture of electronic components, manufacture of communication equipment other than telegraph, and telephone apparatus and equipment, other engineering activities and defence activities.
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Yes. It sponsored workers every year from 2021 to 2025.
In 2025 it sponsored between 6 and 99 workers.
It sponsored workers in 23 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.
First seen on the register in January 2023. Our copies of the register start then, 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. We have no copy of the register between June 2024 and January 2025.
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2 other licensed sponsors in Reading have the same industry code: manufacture of electronic components (26110).