Greater Manchester roles at licensed sponsors (27 October 2026)
A snapshot of SponsorHire listings on 27 October 2026, matched to the Home Office register of licensed sponsors published 26 October 2026.
The numbers
- 9,612 open roles on SponsorHire are at employers on the register.
- 287 are in Greater Manchester, at 91 employers. For comparison, 1,255 are in London.
- 5,348 organisations on the register give a Greater Manchester town as their address (Manchester alone: 2,856).
- Largest job families: Health & Care (136), Operations & Admin (53), Engineering & Construction (30), Software & IT (25).
Employers with the most Greater Manchester roles
| Employer (name on the register) | Roles |
|---|---|
| Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust | 33 |
| Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust | 26 |
| Creative Support Limited | 23 |
| Baker Hicks Limited | 17 |
| Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust | 17 |
| Stockport NHS Foundation Trust | 12 |
| Anaplan Limited | 10 |
| Bolton NHS Foundation Trust | 9 |
| Tameside & Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust | 6 |
| Elysium Healthcare | 5 |
| IQVIA Limited | 5 |
| AJ Bell Plc | 5 |
Counts are roles live on SponsorHire, not each employer's total hiring.
Roles by job family
| Job family | Roles |
|---|---|
| Health & Care | 136 |
| Operations & Admin | 53 |
| Engineering & Construction | 30 |
| Software & IT | 25 |
| Finance & Accounting | 15 |
| Product & Design | 9 |
| Hospitality & Food | 8 |
| Sales & Marketing | 5 |
| Education & Research | 4 |
| Legal & Compliance | 2 |
We group roles by job title, so a few may be misfiled.
Where the roles are
| Town (as written in the advert) | Roles |
|---|---|
| Manchester | 138 |
| Salford | 33 |
| Stockport | 24 |
| Oldham | 13 |
| Wigan | 13 |
| Bolton | 13 |
| Ashton-Under-Lyne | 6 |
| Rochdale | 6 |
| Altrincham | 5 |
| Bury | 5 |
20 adverts said only "Greater Manchester".
Registered organisations by town
| Town on the register | Organisations |
|---|---|
| Manchester | 2,856 |
| Bolton | 584 |
| Oldham | 344 |
| Stockport | 294 |
| Rochdale | 265 |
| Salford | 237 |
| Altrincham | 158 |
| Bury | 148 |
| Wigan | 131 |
| Cheadle | 84 |
The registered town is the address on the register, often a head office, not every site where staff work.
How to read this
- Greater Manchester here means adverts whose first listed place is one of: Manchester, Salford, Stockport, Bolton, Wigan, Oldham, Rochdale, Bury, Altrincham, Sale, Ashton-Under-Lyne, Stretford, Trafford Park, Cheadle, Eccles, Leigh, Hyde, Stalybridge, Middleton, Urmston, or that say "Greater Manchester". Adverts listing several places count once, by the first.
- 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.
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A sponsor licence does not mean a role is sponsored. Not immigration advice.
Source: Home Office, Register of Licensed Sponsors: workers, file dated 26 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/register-of-licensed-sponsors-workers. SponsorHire live listings snapshot, 27 October 2026.
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