North East 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.
- 407 are in the North East (4.2%), at 89 employers. For comparison, 1,625 are in London.
- 1,990 organisations on the register give an address in the North East (Newcastle upon Tyne alone: 561).
- Largest job families: Health & Care (284), Operations & Admin (64), Hospitality & Food (28), Software & IT (8).
- 166 of these roles are at 10 employers with "NHS" in their registered name.
- 226 adverts state an annual salary; the middle of their ranges has a median of £36,400.
Employers with the most North East roles
| Employer (name on the register) | Roles |
|---|---|
| Akari Care Limited | 78 |
| TEES, ESK & WEAR VALLEYS NHS TRUST | 36 |
| Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust | 23 |
| County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust | 22 |
| Creative Support Limited | 20 |
| The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | 17 |
| South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust | 17 |
| CUMBRIA, NORTHUMBERLAND, TYNE AND WEAR NHS FOUNDATION TRUST | 15 |
| South Tees Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | 14 |
| Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust | 10 |
| HC-One Limited | 9 |
| North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust | 8 |
Counts are roles live on SponsorHire, not each employer's total hiring.
Roles by job family
| Job family | Roles |
|---|---|
| Health & Care | 284 |
| Operations & Admin | 64 |
| Hospitality & Food | 28 |
| Software & IT | 8 |
| Finance & Accounting | 6 |
| Engineering & Construction | 6 |
| Other | 3 |
| Product & Design | 3 |
| Education & Research | 3 |
| Sales & Marketing | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|
| Newcastle upon Tyne | 78 |
| Darlington | 40 |
| Gateshead | 37 |
| Middlesbrough | 37 |
| Sunderland | 28 |
| Stockton-on-Tees | 24 |
| Durham | 23 |
| North Shields | 11 |
| Wallsend | 10 |
| Blyth | 9 |
17 adverts named only the region or county, not a town.
Registered organisations by town
| Town on the register | Organisations |
|---|---|
| Newcastle upon Tyne | 561 |
| Sunderland | 175 |
| Middlesbrough | 174 |
| Gateshead | 141 |
| Stockton-on-Tees | 90 |
| Durham | 85 |
| Darlington | 80 |
| Hartlepool | 51 |
| South Shields | 45 |
| Washington | 36 |
The registered town is the address on the register, often a head office, not every site where staff work.
Advertised pay
- 226 of the 407 adverts state an annual salary. Taking the middle of each advertised range, the median is £36,400; half fall between £26,728 and £52,951.
- 109 state an hourly rate (median £14.00).
- 72 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
- 1 advert looks like they may be in the wrong job family, for example "Research And Development Team Secretary and Administrator" (Product & Design). They are counted as filed above.
- Left out because the location is unclear or in another region: 6 multi-region adverts.
How to read this
- The North East here means adverts with a postcode in the North East (looked up with postcodes.io), or that name a town in the North East (such as Newcastle Upon Tyne, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Newcastle, Sunderland, Middlesbrough, Gateshead, Durham, Darlington, Hartlepool, Stockton-On-Tees, Stockton, South Shields, North Shields, Tynemouth, Whitley Bay, Wallsend, Washington, Redcar, Thornaby, Guisborough), or that say "North East". For registered organisations, it means a town or county in the North East 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 Newcastle upon Tyne · Yorkshire and the Humber roles at licensed sponsors · How to check the sponsor register · 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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