UK Visa Sponsor Jobs

UK jobs from Reed.co.uk's official API, each one checked two ways:

• What the ad says about visa sponsorship: offered, refused, mixed or not_mentioned, with the exact sentence the tag is based on.
• Whether the employer can sponsor at all: a match against the Home Office Register of Licensed Sponsors (routes such as Skilled Worker, and the rating), downloaded fresh on every run.

Built for people who need to answer "can this UK employer actually hire someone who needs a visa?" without reading every ad.

What people use it for

• Skilled Worker visa job seekers: a daily list of new jobs from licensed sponsors, minus the ads that rule sponsorship out.
• Immigration advisers and relocation services: check a client's target employers against the sponsor register, with the ad's own wording as proof.
• Recruiters and job boards: a clean UK job feed with salary, contract type and sponsor status in one schema.
• AI agents: answer "which nursing jobs in Leeds are with licensed sponsors?" through the Apify API or MCP.

What it costs: 1,000 jobs cost $2.00, with the visa tags and the sponsor check included. A daily monitor that returns 30 new jobs a day costs about $1.80 a month.

What you get

{
  "id": "reed:57386797",
  "title": "Care Assistant",
  "employer": "Agincare",
  "employerType": "direct",
  "location": "HR95BS",
  "salaryText": "£13.50 - £14.00 per hour",
  "salaryMinYearly": 26325,
  "salaryMaxYearly": 27300,
  "contractType": "Permanent",
  "postedAt": "2026-09-24",
  "expiresAt": "2026-11-05",
  "url": "https://www.reed.co.uk/jobs/care-assistant/57386797",
  "visaSponsorship": "refused",
  "visaEvidence": ["Non-UK nationals must have the right to work in the UK with at least 12 months left on their visa, please note presently we are unable to offer sponsorship"],
  "relocationOffered": false,
  "ukSponsorLicence": {
    "licensed": true,
    "matchedName": "Agincare UK Limited",
    "match": "exact",
    "routes": ["Skilled Worker"],
    "ratings": ["Worker (A rating)"],
    "registerDate": "2026-10-13"
  }
}

Field notes

• ukSponsorLicence describes the employer, not the job. match: "prefix" means only the first words of the name matched, so check it. licensed: false means no match on the register.
• employerType: direct when you search direct employers only (the default). With agency ads the advertiser is the agency, so the sponsor check is about the agency.
• salaryMinYearly / salaryMaxYearly: Reed's own yearly equivalent, handy for hourly and daily rates. Salaries are empty when the employer hides them.

Why both checks matter

Searching UK jobs for "visa sponsorship" mostly finds ads that refuse it. In a live sample of 30 direct-employer ads matching "visa sponsorship" (October 2026), 29 refused it ("we do not offer visa sponsorship", "must have the right to work in the UK"). Yet 19 of those 30 employers hold a sponsor licence. The ad tells you about this job; the register tells you whether the employer sponsors anyone. You get both, with the evidence.

What you can put in

Input	What it does
keywords	What to search for, e.g. software engineer or nurse.
location, distanceMiles	A UK town, city or postcode, and a radius (default 10 miles).
minimumSalary, maximumSalary	Salary range in GBP.
postedByDirectEmployer	On by default, so sponsor checks are about the real employer.
permanent, contract, temp, fullTime, partTime, graduate	Reed's own job-type filters.
postedWithinDays	Only jobs posted in the last N days.
visaFilter	offered keeps ads that offer sponsorship; not_refused drops ads that rule it out.
sponsorFilter	licensed keeps only employers on the sponsor register.
maxJobs	Stop after this many jobs (default 200, up to 5,000).
onlyNewJobs, monitorName	Monitoring mode, below.
reedApiKey	Optional. A built-in key is used; add your own free key for heavy use.

Example input

{
  "keywords": "software engineer",
  "location": "Manchester",
  "sponsorFilter": "licensed",
  "visaFilter": "not_refused",
  "postedWithinDays": 7
}

Daily monitoring: pay only for new jobs

Turn on Only new jobs and schedule the Actor daily. It remembers which jobs it has already returned (per monitor name, or per exact input), so after the first run you only get, and only pay for, new postings. Each new job has "isNew": true.

Pricing

Pay per event: you pay only for jobs you receive.

Event	Price
Job, with visa tags and the UK sponsor check	$2.00 per 1,000 jobs ($0.002 each)

Jobs that don't match your filters cost nothing. Runs stop cleanly at your spending limit.

Data sources and compliance

• Jobs: Reed.co.uk's official Jobseeker API, the documented API Reed offers developers. No scraping, no logins, no proxies.
• Sponsors: the UK Home Office Register of Licensed Sponsors: Workers, published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, downloaded fresh on every run. If GOV.UK is unreachable, jobs are still saved without ukSponsorLicence and the run summary says so.
• No personal data: only job ads and employer names. No recruiter contacts are collected.

FAQ

How accurate are the visa tags? They are rule-based and conservative, and every tag comes with its evidence sentence. Ads that say nothing are not_mentioned, not "no".

Does a licensed employer sponsor this job? Not necessarily. A licence means the employer can sponsor; the job also needs to be eligible (for Skilled Worker, the right occupation code and salary). Treat it as a strong lead.

Can I use it from an AI agent or over MCP? Yes. It's a standard Apify Actor, so any Apify client, the Apify API or Apify's MCP server can call it.

Related Actors

• Visa Sponsorship Jobs API: the same visa tags for Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, SmartRecruiters and Recruitee career boards.
• Workday Jobs Scraper: Workday careers sites with US H-1B filings and the same UK sponsor register.
• Remote Jobs by Country: remote jobs from four boards, filtered to the ones open to where you live.
• Podcast Transcript Scraper: publisher-provided transcripts as text, timestamped Markdown or RAG chunks.