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UK Sponsor Jobs by City
Where in the UK can employers actually sponsor your visa? This page ranks the cities with the most licensed sponsors on the Home Office register — 143,071 licence entries in total, register dated Nov 4, 2026. London alone holds 43,847 of them (30.6% of the register). Pick a city to see its sponsors by route and rating, and the live sponsorship jobs there.
PakkiNaukri is a free job board and CV builder for job seekers in Pakistan and for visa-sponsorship jobs in the UK, USA, Europe, the Gulf, Australia and New Zealand. Every count below is taken from the register itself — nothing is estimated.
Source: the official Home Office register of licensed sponsors (workers) on GOV.UK. A sponsor licence lets an employer issue a Certificate of Sponsorship; it does not by itself mean the employer is hiring today.
London
#1 in the UK43,847 licensed sponsors · 30.6% of the register
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Birmingham
#2 in the UK3,334 licensed sponsors · 2.33% of the register
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Manchester
#3 in the UK3,097 licensed sponsors · 2.16% of the register
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Glasgow
#4 in the UK1,505 licensed sponsors · 1.05% of the register
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Leicester
#5 in the UK1,492 licensed sponsors · 1.04% of the register
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Bristol
#6 in the UK1,468 licensed sponsors · 1.03% of the register
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Edinburgh
#7 in the UK1,316 licensed sponsors · 0.92% of the register
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Leeds
#8 in the UK1,187 licensed sponsors · 0.83% of the register
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Nottingham
#9 in the UK1,133 licensed sponsors · 0.79% of the register
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Reading
#10 in the UK1,085 licensed sponsors · 0.76% of the register
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Coventry
#11 in the UK987 licensed sponsors · 0.69% of the register
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Cambridge
#12 in the UK980 licensed sponsors · 0.68% of the register
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Looking for one employer, not a city?
The full sponsor licence list is searchable by organisation name, town or city and visa route — free, with no sign-up and no results held back.
The national picture
Our UK Visa Sponsor Report 2026 breaks the whole register down — how many sponsors there are, which routes dominate, and where sponsorship is concentrated — from the same official data.