UK Visa Sponsor List: Skilled Worker Sponsor Register Scraper

UK Visa Sponsor List: Skilled Worker sponsor register scraper with daily changes

Looking for the UK visa sponsor list, Tier 2 / Skilled Worker sponsor list or a list of UK companies that sponsor visas? Search the official Home Office register of licensed sponsors (workers), the list of UK employers allowed to sponsor Skilled Worker and other work visas, and track changes day by day: newly licensed sponsors, sponsors removed from the register, and rating downgrades (A rating to B rating). Every run resolves the latest CSV from GOV.UK, so you always get the current register (updated every working day, about 140,000 rows).

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What you get

• Organisation name, town/city, county, type and rating, route, for every licensed sponsor
• Filters: organisation name, town/city, county, route (Skilled Worker, Global Business Mobility, Creative Worker, Scale-up...), rating (A, B, Premium, SME+, Provisional), sponsor type
• Changes only mode: compares today's register with the previous saved snapshot and outputs added, removed and ratingChanged rows with previousRating
• firstSeen date for every sponsor (first register date we saw it)
• Optional Companies House enrichment (company number, status, company type, registered postcode, incorporation date) with your free API key

Use cases

• Visa job seekers: find employers in your city and sector that can sponsor you
• Recruiters and immigration lawyers: daily feed of newly licensed sponsors (warm leads) and of sponsors that were downgraded or removed (clients at risk)
• HR and compliance: check a supplier's or partner's sponsor status automatically
• Researchers and journalists: track sponsor licence revocations over time

Input examples

Search:

{ "organisationName": "games", "town": "London", "routes": ["Skilled Worker"], "maxResults": 500 }

Daily change feed (schedule it):

{ "changesOnly": true, "routes": ["Skilled Worker"] }

Output example

{
  "organisationName": "505 Games Limited",
  "town": "Milton Keynes",
  "county": null,
  "typeAndRating": "Worker (A rating)",
  "sponsorType": "Worker",
  "rating": "A rating",
  "route": "Skilled Worker",
  "changeType": "ratingChanged",
  "previousRating": "B rating",
  "firstSeen": "2026-11-12",
  "snapshotDate": "2026-11-12",
  "companyNumber": "04123456",
  "companyStatus": "active"
}

changeType is added, removed or ratingChanged in changes mode; unchanged (or null before any snapshot exists) in search mode. A run summary is saved as SUMMARY in the default key-value store.

How change tracking works

Each run saves a compressed snapshot of the full register in the named key-value store uk-visa-sponsors-state (last 10 register dates kept). In Changes only mode the Actor diffs the current register against the latest earlier snapshot. The first run creates the baseline, so you get changes from the next register update onward. firstSeen is the first register date this Actor saw the sponsor, so for sponsors already present at the baseline it means "on or before".

FAQ

Is it official? The data comes straight from the Home Office CSV on GOV.UK. Being on the register does not mean an employer is hiring. How often is it updated? The Home Office updates the register every working day; schedule this Actor daily.

Pricing

Pay per result: $3 per 1,000 results ($0.003 per row in the dataset), plus a tiny $0.00005 per run start. No subscription and no extra charges for filters, change tracking or Companies House matching. Set a maximum cost per run in Apify and the Actor stops cleanly when it is reached, keeping everything it has already returned.

Data licence and attribution

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Home Office, Register of licensed sponsors: workers (GOV.UK). Some sponsors are sole traders whose names are personal data; use the data in line with UK GDPR.