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Which employers sponsor your job?

Search your job to see who sponsors it, how many visas it gets, what it pays and where the employers are. The figures come from the Home Office.

PlusSee every employer that sponsored your job in both 2024 and 2025, with its numbers. What Plus includes

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106,685

sponsored work visas granted to people applying from outside the UK, July 2025 to June 2026. That is 18% fewer than the year before.

59,523 UK employers sponsored workers in 2025.

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new rules32,93724,67030,76941,95925,15817,96128,89234,674'24 Q3'26 Q2
Visas granted each quarter to people applying from outside the UK. Paler bars: early figures the Home Office may revise.

Which jobs are getting more visas, and which fewer?

Ship and hovercraft officers rose most: 548 visas, up 80%. Senior care workers fell most: 2, down 99%.

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  • Senior care workers (closed)−99%
  • Care workers and home carers (closed)−99%
  • Sales supervisors - retail and wholesale (closed)−98%
  • Office managers (closed)−96%
  • Catering and bar managers (closed)−96%
  • Managers and directors in retail and wholesale (closed)−95%
  • +80%Ship and hovercraft officers
  • +53%Functional managers and directors not elsewhere classified
  • +38%Engineering project managers and project engineers
  • +23%IT managers
  • +19%Actuaries, economists and statisticians
  • +18%Horticultural trades (closed)

Visas granted from outside the UK, October 2025 to June 2026, against the same months a year before. The Home Office figures give job codes only from October 2024. Only jobs with at least 200 visas in those months a year before. Changes over 100% are drawn at 100%. Many falls follow the rule changes of 22 July 2025. "Closed" means a new applicant from outside the UK can no longer be sponsored for the job on the Skilled Worker visa.

Which jobs that are still open do employers sponsor most?

Jobs a new applicant from outside the UK can still be sponsored for, by workers sponsored in 2025.

  • Other registered nursing professionalsSOC code 2237708−59%visas from abroad in the last year−59%: October 2025 to June 2026 against a year beforeMost of its 2024 employers sponsored it again in 2025.Usually paid £20,000 to £49,999
  • Generalist medical practitionersSOC code 22113,126−52%visas from abroad in the last year−52%: October 2025 to June 2026 against a year beforeMost of its 2024 employers sponsored it again in 2025.Usually paid £20,000 to £49,999
  • Programmers and software development professionalsSOC code 21344,089−13%visas from abroad in the last year−13%: October 2025 to June 2026 against a year beforeFewer than half of its 2024 employers sponsored it again in 2025.Usually paid £50,000 to £79,999
  • MusiciansSOC code 34151,528−34%visas from abroad in the last year−34%: October 2025 to June 2026 against a year beforeMost of its 2024 employers sponsored it again in 2025.Usually paid under £20,000

Sponsored a lot, but closed to new Skilled Worker applicants from outside the UK

Since 22 July 2025 employers cannot sponsor new applicants from outside the UK for these jobs on the Skilled Worker visa. Some people already in the UK still can be. Their 2025 figures include the months before that change, and extensions for people already here.

  • Care workers and home carersSOC code 6135Closed to new Skilled Worker applicants from outside the UK232−99%visas from abroad in the last year−99%: October 2025 to June 2026 against a year beforeMost of its 2024 employers sponsored it again in 2025.Usually paid £20,000 to £49,999
  • Senior care workersSOC code 6136Closed to new Skilled Worker applicants from outside the UK11−99%visas from abroad in the last year−99%: October 2025 to June 2026 against a year beforeMost of its 2024 employers sponsored it again in 2025.Usually paid £20,000 to £49,999
  • Horticultural tradesSOC code 5112Closed to new Skilled Worker applicants from outside the UK16,012+18%visas from abroad in the last year+18%: October 2025 to June 2026 against a year beforeMost of its 2024 employers sponsored it again in 2025.Usually paid £20,000 to £49,999
  • ChefsSOC code 5434Closed to new Skilled Worker applicants from outside the UK225−91%visas from abroad in the last year−91%: October 2025 to June 2026 against a year beforeFewer than half of its 2024 employers sponsored it again in 2025.Usually paid £20,000 to £49,999
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Where the figures come from

Employers: the Home Office register of licensed sponsors, copied every day. Workers sponsored, 2021 to 2025: Home Office figures released under the Freedom of Information Act. Visas granted: Home Office immigration statistics. Industry: Companies House. Town positions: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). The Home Office hides counts from 1 to 5, so totals are ranges. We do not show a total for fewer than 3 employers, and we round totals to the nearest 10. Counts cover the employers we can match to the register, about 99% of the workers in the release. This is information, not immigration advice.