East of England 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.
- 794 are in the East of England (8.2%), at 168 employers. For comparison, 1,625 are in London.
- 9,266 organisations on the register give an address in the East of England (Cambridge alone: 841).
- Largest job families: Health & Care (484), Operations & Admin (118), Software & IT (41), Engineering & Construction (40).
- 371 of these roles are at 20 employers with "NHS" in their registered name.
- 545 adverts state an annual salary; the middle of their ranges has a median of £43,390.
Employers with the most East of England roles
| Employer (name on the register) | Roles |
|---|---|
| Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust | 66 |
| Elysium Healthcare | 54 |
| Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust | 42 |
| Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust | 40 |
| Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | 31 |
| Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust | 25 |
| MBDA UK Limited | 24 |
| THE PRINCESS ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL NHS TRUST | 20 |
| North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust | 20 |
| East London NHS Foundation Trust | 18 |
| Spire Healthcare Ltd | 17 |
| James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | 17 |
Counts are roles live on SponsorHire, not each employer's total hiring.
Roles by job family
| Job family | Roles |
|---|---|
| Health & Care | 484 |
| Operations & Admin | 118 |
| Software & IT | 41 |
| Engineering & Construction | 40 |
| Finance & Accounting | 39 |
| Hospitality & Food | 22 |
| Sales & Marketing | 20 |
| Product & Design | 16 |
| Education & Research | 5 |
| Other | 5 |
| Legal & Compliance | 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 |
|---|---|
| Cambridge | 95 |
| Peterborough | 42 |
| Norwich | 41 |
| Southend-on-Sea | 37 |
| Chelmsford | 37 |
| Stevenage | 34 |
| Bedford | 30 |
| Luton | 29 |
| Watford | 28 |
| Great Yarmouth | 28 |
13 adverts named only the region or county, not a town.
Registered organisations by town
| Town on the register | Organisations |
|---|---|
| Cambridge | 841 |
| Luton | 705 |
| Watford | 487 |
| Norwich | 402 |
| Peterborough | 389 |
| Bedford | 330 |
| Colchester | 282 |
| Chelmsford | 235 |
| Ipswich | 228 |
| Hemel Hempstead | 204 |
The registered town is the address on the register, often a head office, not every site where staff work.
Advertised pay
- 545 of the 794 adverts state an annual salary. Taking the middle of each advertised range, the median is £43,390; half fall between £30,806 and £55,000.
- 54 state an hourly rate (median £14.40).
- 187 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
- 2 adverts look like they may be in the wrong job family, for example "Regional Commissioning Manager" (Engineering & Construction); "Regional Commissioning Manager" (Engineering & Construction). They are counted as filed above.
- Left out because the location is unclear or in another region: 6 multi-region adverts.
- 2 adverts give a yearly-looking pay figure under £10,000, which is probably a monthly, part-time or mistyped amount: "Pharmacist" at Asda Stores Ltd (£1,872); "Pharmacist - 30 hours" at Asda Stores Ltd (£1,560). They are left out of the pay figures.
How to read this
- The East of England here means adverts with a postcode in the East of England (looked up with postcodes.io), or that name a town in the East of England (such as Cambridge, Peterborough, Norwich, Ipswich, Colchester, Chelmsford, Luton, Bedford, Southend-On-Sea, Southend, Watford, St Albans, Stevenage, Hemel Hempstead, Basildon, Harlow, Welwyn Garden City, Hatfield, King's Lynn, Kings Lynn), or that say "East of England". For registered organisations, it means a town or county in the East of England 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: Software & IT sponsors hiring in Cambridge · Health & Care sponsors hiring in Cambridge · Health & Care sponsors hiring in Norwich · Health & Care sponsors hiring in Peterborough · 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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