Which jobs are on offer at licensed sponsors? Roles by job family (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 at 1,415 employers on the register.
- 5,578 (58%) are in health and care. 3,685 roles are at NHS bodies or health boards.
- The next largest families are Operations & Admin (1,423), Software & IT (733), Finance & Accounting (420).
Roles by job family
| Job family | Roles | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Health & Care | 5,578 | 58.0% |
| Operations & Admin | 1,423 | 14.8% |
| Software & IT | 733 | 7.6% |
| Finance & Accounting | 420 | 4.4% |
| Sales & Marketing | 388 | 4.0% |
| Hospitality & Food | 348 | 3.6% |
| Engineering & Construction | 343 | 3.6% |
| Product & Design | 131 | 1.4% |
| Other | 131 | 1.4% |
| Education & Research | 69 | 0.7% |
| Legal & Compliance | 48 | 0.5% |
Employers with the most roles in each family
| Job family | Top employers (roles) |
|---|---|
| Health & Care | Agincare UK Limited (199); Creative Support Limited (177); Elysium Healthcare (139) |
| Operations & Admin | Ministry of Justice (56); Creative Support Limited (32); Asda Stores Ltd (23) |
| Software & IT | Anthropic Limited (27); Databricks UK Limited (27); MBDA UK Limited (16) |
| Finance & Accounting | CFGI (UK) Limited (26); Ernst & Young (21); Menzies LLP (19) |
| Sales & Marketing | FLATPAY APS (31); Hunter Douglas UK Retail Limited (27); Databricks UK Limited (17) |
| Hospitality & Food | Agincare UK Limited (41); Kentucky Fried Chicken (Great Britain) Limited (39); Elysium Healthcare (37) |
| Engineering & Construction | Baker Hicks Limited (76); NTT Global Data Centers EMEA UK Ltd (17); Elysium Healthcare (8) |
| Product & Design | Design Bridge Ltd (5); C & W (U.K.) LLP (5); AFFIRM UK LTD (4) |
| Other | Curve UK Limited (18); CVS Group Plc (15); Aldi Stores Limited (9) |
| Education & Research | GSL Education (6); Warwickshire College Group (5); Intertek Group plc (4) |
| Legal & Compliance | Airwallex (UK) Limited (7); Farfetch UK Limited (3); Menzies LLP (3) |
Counts are roles live on SponsorHire, not each employer's total hiring.
How to read this
- We group roles into families by job title, automatically, so a few may be misfiled. Support-worker and care-assistant titles count as Health & Care; cook, chef, kitchen and housekeeping roles count as Hospitality & Food, including those at care providers.
- These are roles on SponsorHire only. Many employers post on their own careers sites, which we do not all collect yet, so the mix is not the whole UK market.
- 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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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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