UK Visa Sponsor Register: Skilled Worker Sponsors + Changes

Every organisation licensed by the UK Home Office to sponsor workers (Skilled Worker, Global Business Mobility, Creative, Charity, Religious and other routes) from the official GOV.UK register, in one clean JSON format: one row per organisation and town, with its A/B rating and all its routes. Or run it daily in changes mode and get only the sponsors that were added, removed or changed (for example downgraded from A to B).

Data comes from the official register CSV that the Home Office publishes on GOV.UK every working day. We don't use logins, and the output contains no personal data: sponsors that may be individuals (sole traders) are left out (see "How it behaves").

What you get

Snapshot mode, one row per sponsor (example from the 2026-11-06 register):

{
  "id": "f2fe8b5b3e0ede5f",
  "record_type": "sponsor",
  "organisation_name": "(IECC Care) Independent Excel Care Consortium Limited",
  "town": "Colchester",
  "county": null,
  "worker_rating": "A",
  "temporary_worker_rating": null,
  "routes": ["Skilled Worker"],
  "register_date": "2026-11-06",
  "register_url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/register-of-licensed-sponsors-workers",
  "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Home Office, ..."
}

Field	Meaning
id	stable id of the sponsor (organisation + town + county)
record_type	sponsor (snapshot) or change (changes mode)
organisation_name, town, county	as in the register (most rows have no county)
worker_rating	Worker licence rating: A, B (downgraded), A (Premium), A (SME+), UK Expansion Worker: Provisional
temporary_worker_rating	Temporary Worker licence rating, same values
routes	all visa routes the sponsor is licensed for, e.g. Skilled Worker, Creative Worker
register_date	date of the register file the row comes from
change_type	changes mode: added, removed or changed
changed_fields, old, new	changes mode: what changed (rating / routes) with the old and new values
previous_register_date	changes mode: the register date your previous run compared against
licence, licence_url, attribution	source licence, kept on every row

Each run also saves two reports (linked on the Output tab): RUN_REPORT (records delivered, invalid records dropped, whether the run collected everything) and SPONSORS_REPORT (register date and file, rows read, sponsors delivered, names left out as possible individuals, baseline / change counts).

Coverage note: the register lists about 143,000 rows (one per sponsor, town and route); grouped, that is about 128,000 organisations, of which about 105,000 are delivered (2026-11-06). About 18% of names are left out because they may be a sole trader or another individual. The Home Office updates the register on working days; there is no history in the file, so changes start from your first changes-mode run.

Input

Option	Default
Mode	snapshot	snapshot = every sponsor; changes = added / removed / changed since your previous changes run
Organisation name keywords	(all)	any word in the name, e.g. care, software
Towns / cities	(all)	exact town, e.g. London, Manchester
Counties	(all)	exact county (most rows have none)
Visa routes	(all)	words in the route name, e.g. Skilled Worker, Creative
Ratings	(all)	A, B, A (Premium), ...
Change types	(all)	changes mode: added, removed, changed
Max results	1000 (form starts at 50 for a quick test)	hard stop, so you control cost
Only new since last run	off	snapshot mode: only sponsors you have not received before

Changes mode, first run: it saves today's register as your baseline and returns no records. Schedule it daily; from the next register on you get the changes. A run that stops early (max results or max cost reached) does not move the baseline, so the next run returns the same changes again (turn on "Only new" to skip those you already have).

Typical uses

• Job seekers and recruiters: which employers in a town or sector can sponsor a Skilled Worker visa.
• Compliance and HR teams: get told when a sponsor is removed or downgraded to B.
• Immigration advisers and market researchers: new sponsor licences every day, by route.

Pricing

Pay per result: sponsor record $0.002, change record $0.003, see the Pricing tab. You pay only for records delivered to your dataset. The Actor stops when it reaches the max cost per run you set.

How it behaves

• Polite by design: obeys robots.txt, one request at a time, identifies itself; one small JSON request plus one download of the register file (~11 MB) per run.
• No personal data. A name is delivered only when it is clearly an organisation: it ends in a legal form (Ltd, Limited, PLC, LLP, CIC, CIO, ...), it is an institution (University, College, Council, NHS Trust, Trust, Foundation, Charity, Society, Association, Institute, Hospice, Church, Mosque, Temple, ...), or it is such a company trading under another name ("Example Ltd T/A Cafe Example"). Names with personal titles or post-nominals (Mr, Mrs, Dr, Pastor, MBE ...), trading phrases after a person ("John Smith T/A ...", "doing business as", "known as"), private trusts (family, will, pension trusts) and a bare "
• Every record is checked against the output schema before delivery. Broken records are dropped (you are not charged for them) and counted in the run report. If more than 5% of the records fail the check, the run is marked Failed, so a change on the source side never goes unnoticed.

Data licence and attribution

Re-use of the output must keep the attribution in each row:

• Home Office, Register of licensed sponsors: workers: "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0." OGL v3.0, source page.

This Actor is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Home Office, UK Visas and Immigration or GOV.UK.