Yorkshire and the Humber 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.
- 590 are in Yorkshire and the Humber (6.1%), at 140 employers. For comparison, 1,625 are in London.
- 5,635 organisations on the register give an address in Yorkshire and the Humber (Leeds alone: 1,081).
- Largest job families: Health & Care (389), Operations & Admin (83), Software & IT (30), Hospitality & Food (30).
- 260 of these roles are at 21 employers with "NHS" in their registered name.
- 373 adverts state an annual salary; the middle of their ranges has a median of £42,631.
Employers with the most Yorkshire and the Humber roles
| Employer (name on the register) | Roles |
|---|---|
| Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust | 36 |
| Creative Support Limited | 33 |
| Asda Stores Ltd | 30 |
| Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | 24 |
| TEES, ESK & WEAR VALLEYS NHS TRUST | 21 |
| Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | 19 |
| Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust | 18 |
| Northern Lincolnshire & Goole NHS Foundation Trust | 17 |
| Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust | 17 |
| Exemplar Health Care | 17 |
| York & Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | 16 |
| The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust | 13 |
Counts are roles live on SponsorHire, not each employer's total hiring.
Roles by job family
| Job family | Roles |
|---|---|
| Health & Care | 389 |
| Operations & Admin | 83 |
| Software & IT | 30 |
| Hospitality & Food | 30 |
| Finance & Accounting | 19 |
| Sales & Marketing | 12 |
| Engineering & Construction | 10 |
| Other | 8 |
| Product & Design | 6 |
| Education & Research | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| Leeds | 109 |
| Sheffield | 64 |
| Hull | 53 |
| Bradford | 49 |
| York | 43 |
| Wakefield | 31 |
| Rotherham | 25 |
| Grimsby | 23 |
| Doncaster | 22 |
| Scarborough | 17 |
1 advert named only the region, not a town.
Registered organisations by town
| Town on the register | Organisations |
|---|---|
| Leeds | 1,081 |
| Bradford | 737 |
| Sheffield | 690 |
| Huddersfield | 315 |
| York | 282 |
| Hull | 239 |
| Doncaster | 223 |
| Rotherham | 183 |
| Wakefield | 171 |
| Halifax | 142 |
The registered town is the address on the register, often a head office, not every site where staff work.
Advertised pay
- 373 of the 590 adverts state an annual salary. Taking the middle of each advertised range, the median is £42,631; half fall between £29,120 and £52,951.
- 57 state an hourly rate (median £13.12).
- 146 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
- Left out because the location is unclear or in another region: 23 multi-region, 1 outside region (Teesside) adverts.
- 12 adverts give a yearly-looking pay figure under £10,000, which is probably a monthly, part-time or mistyped amount: "Salaried GP (ARRs)" at Pennine GP Alliance Limited (£8,744); "Class 1 Driver" at Ignition Group Ltd (£1,614); "Property Graduate Programme" at Asda Stores Ltd (£1,950). They are left out of the pay figures.
How to read this
- Yorkshire and the Humber here means adverts with a postcode in Yorkshire and the Humber (looked up with postcodes.io), or that name a town in Yorkshire and the Humber (such as Leeds, Sheffield, Bradford, Hull, Kingston Upon Hull, York, Wakefield, Huddersfield, Doncaster, Rotherham, Barnsley, Halifax, Harrogate, Scarborough, Grimsby, Scunthorpe, Dewsbury, Keighley, Batley, Pontefract), or that say "Yorkshire and the Humber". For registered organisations, it means a town or county in Yorkshire and the Humber 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: How to check the sponsor register · Greater Manchester 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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