South West 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.
- 1,058 are in the South West (11.0%), at 185 employers. For comparison, 1,625 are in London.
- 5,431 organisations on the register give an address in the South West (Bristol alone: 1,295).
- Largest job families: Health & Care (742), Operations & Admin (140), Software & IT (47), Hospitality & Food (40).
- 455 of these roles are at 21 employers with "NHS" in their registered name.
- 730 adverts state an annual salary; the middle of their ranges has a median of £36,988.
Employers with the most South West roles
| Employer (name on the register) | Roles |
|---|---|
| Agincare UK Limited | 133 |
| Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust | 60 |
| Dorset HealthCare University NHS Foundation Trust | 53 |
| Bristol NHS Foundation Trust | 48 |
| HCRG Care Limited | 45 |
| Somerset NHS Foundation Trust | 43 |
| Devon Partnership NHS Trust | 42 |
| GLoucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust | 38 |
| Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust | 31 |
| Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust | 28 |
| Elysium Healthcare | 22 |
| Livewell Southwest (CIC) | 19 |
Counts are roles live on SponsorHire, not each employer's total hiring.
Roles by job family
| Job family | Roles |
|---|---|
| Health & Care | 742 |
| Operations & Admin | 140 |
| Software & IT | 47 |
| Hospitality & Food | 40 |
| Finance & Accounting | 28 |
| Engineering & Construction | 20 |
| Sales & Marketing | 19 |
| Other | 11 |
| Education & Research | 7 |
| Product & Design | 3 |
| Legal & Compliance | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|
| Bristol | 142 |
| Exeter | 97 |
| Gloucester | 54 |
| Plymouth | 49 |
| Swindon | 43 |
| Salisbury | 35 |
| Taunton | 34 |
| Dorchester | 34 |
| Torquay | 33 |
| Cheltenham | 26 |
126 adverts named only the region or county, not a town.
Registered organisations by town
| Town on the register | Organisations |
|---|---|
| Bristol | 1,295 |
| Swindon | 330 |
| Cheltenham | 275 |
| Bournemouth | 252 |
| Gloucester | 243 |
| Plymouth | 201 |
| Bath | 198 |
| Exeter | 192 |
| Poole | 184 |
| Salisbury | 107 |
The registered town is the address on the register, often a head office, not every site where staff work.
Advertised pay
- 730 of the 1,058 adverts state an annual salary. Taking the middle of each advertised range, the median is £36,988; half fall between £27,655 and £52,951.
- 140 state an hourly rate (median £13.46).
- 176 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
- 3 adverts look like they may be in the wrong job family, for example "Community Early Years Practitioner" (Education & Research); "Electrical Design Engineer" (Other); "Production Technician" (Product & Design). They are counted as filed above.
- Left out because the location is unclear or in another region: 25 multi-region, 1 town/postcode conflict adverts.
- 9 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 (£1,560); "Pharmacist" at Asda Stores Ltd (£2,288); "Pharmacist - 35 hours" at Asda Stores Ltd (£1,820). They are left out of the pay figures.
How to read this
- The South West here means adverts with a postcode in the South West (looked up with postcodes.io), or that name a town in the South West (such as Bristol, Plymouth, Exeter, Bath, Swindon, Gloucester, Cheltenham, Bournemouth, Poole, Truro, Taunton, Torquay, Paignton, Salisbury, Yeovil, Barnstaple, Weymouth, Dorchester, Stroud, Chippenham), or that say "South West". For registered organisations, it means a town or county in the South West 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: Visa sponsor companies in Bristol · Software & IT sponsors hiring in Bristol · Health & Care sponsors hiring in Plymouth · Health & Care sponsors hiring in Exeter · Wales 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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