East Midlands roles at licensed sponsors (28 October 2026)
A snapshot of SponsorHire listings on 28 October 2026, matched to the Home Office register of licensed sponsors published 27 October 2026.
The numbers
- 9,651 open roles on SponsorHire are at employers on the register.
- 601 are in the East Midlands (6.2%), at 146 employers. For comparison, 1,625 are in London.
- 5,704 organisations on the register give an address in the East Midlands (Leicester alone: 1,413).
- Largest job families: Health & Care (381), Operations & Admin (90), Software & IT (35), Hospitality & Food (33).
- 256 of these roles are at 16 employers with "NHS" in their registered name.
- 404 adverts state an annual salary; the middle of their ranges has a median of £38,512.
Employers with the most East Midlands roles
| Employer (name on the register) | Roles |
|---|---|
| Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust | 42 |
| Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | 33 |
| University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust | 28 |
| University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust | 24 |
| Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust | 24 |
| Elysium Healthcare | 21 |
| United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust | 18 |
| Ministry of Justice | 18 |
| Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | 17 |
| CAPITAL ONE (EUROPE) PLC | 16 |
| Agincare UK Limited | 15 |
| Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust | 15 |
Counts are roles live on SponsorHire, not each employer's total hiring.
Roles by job family
| Job family | Roles |
|---|---|
| Health & Care | 381 |
| Operations & Admin | 90 |
| Software & IT | 35 |
| Hospitality & Food | 33 |
| Product & Design | 18 |
| Engineering & Construction | 11 |
| Sales & Marketing | 10 |
| Other | 10 |
| Education & Research | 5 |
| Legal & Compliance | 4 |
| Finance & Accounting | 4 |
We group roles by job title, so a few may be misfiled (see Data notes below).
Where the roles are
| Town (from the advert) | Roles |
|---|---|
| Nottingham | 100 |
| Derby | 71 |
| Leicester | 63 |
| Lincoln | 39 |
| Sutton-in-Ashfield | 39 |
| Northampton | 39 |
| Chesterfield | 25 |
| Mansfield | 18 |
| Louth | 17 |
| Kettering | 13 |
8 adverts named only the region or county, not a town.
Registered organisations by town
| Town on the register | Organisations |
|---|---|
| Leicester | 1,413 |
| Nottingham | 1,049 |
| Derby | 511 |
| Northampton | 511 |
| Lincoln | 162 |
| Loughborough | 123 |
| Chesterfield | 121 |
| Wellingborough | 104 |
| Kettering | 101 |
| Mansfield | 95 |
The registered town is the address on the register, often a head office, not every site where staff work.
Advertised pay
- 404 of the 601 adverts state an annual salary. Taking the middle of each advertised range, the median is £38,512; half fall between £27,601 and £52,951.
- 61 state an hourly rate (median £12.90).
- 135 give no usable pay figure (for example "Negotiable" or "Competitive").
- Pay is as written in the advert. We haven't checked it against any visa salary rule, and an advertised salary says nothing about whether a role can be sponsored.
Data notes
- Left out because the location is unclear or in another region: 27 multi-region, 4 town/postcode conflict adverts.
- 1 advert gives a yearly-looking pay figure under £10,000, which is probably a monthly, part-time or mistyped amount: "Pharmacist - 24.5 hours" at Asda Stores Ltd (£1,274). It is left out of the pay figures.
How to read this
- The East Midlands here means adverts with a postcode in the East Midlands (looked up with postcodes.io), or that name a town in the East Midlands (such as Nottingham, Leicester, Derby, Lincoln, Northampton, Chesterfield, Mansfield, Loughborough, Kettering, Corby, Wellingborough, Grantham, Boston, Newark, Newark-On-Trent, Worksop, Hinckley, Coalville, Melton Mowbray, Market Harborough), or that say "East Midlands". For registered organisations, it means a town or county in the East Midlands as written on the register.
- Adverts that list sites in more than one region, and adverts whose town and postcode point to different regions, are left out of the regional count.
- Pay figures: annual salaries where the advertised figure is under £10,000 are left out of the median and range (they are usually monthly, part-time or mistyped amounts). Hourly rates are shown separately.
- Listings change daily, and some roles in this snapshot may have closed.
- We match employers by company name and leave out ads we identify as posted by recruitment agencies. A match can still be wrong.
For official visa rules, see GOV.UK: Work visas.
Related: Health & Care sponsors hiring in Nottingham · Health & Care sponsors hiring in Leicester · Health & Care sponsors hiring in Derby · West Midlands roles at licensed sponsors · All guides
A sponsor licence does not mean a role is sponsored. Not immigration advice.
Source: Home Office, Register of Licensed Sponsors: workers, file dated 27 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/register-of-licensed-sponsors-workers. SponsorHire live listings snapshot, 28 October 2026.
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