Top UK visa sponsors: who sponsored the most in 2024
Employers on our boards ranked by the Skilled Worker visas they actually sponsored in 2024 (certificates of sponsorship, Home Office figures), with their open UK roles. A licence alone does not show this.
| # | Employer | Visas sponsored in 2024 | vs 2023 | Open UK roles |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | J.P. Morgan | 1,515 | +30% | 46 open |
| 2 | EYincl. related entities | 1,258 | -11% | 77 open |
| 3 | Deloitte | 1,101 | +5% | 1 open |
| 4 | Amazon | 1,086 | +79% | 72 open |
| 5 | Jaguar Land Rover | 923 | -19% | No open roles now |
| 6 | PwCincl. related entities | 920 | -47% | 53 open |
| 7 | National Trust | 874 | -4% | 5 open |
| 8 | Accenture | 833 | +11% | 121 open |
| 9 | Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | 780 | -22% | No open roles now |
| 10 | Goldman Sachsincl. related entities | 779 | +103% | 32 open |
| 11 | KPMGincl. related entities | 766 | -40% | 12 open |
| 12 | Barclaysincl. related entities | 659 | -15% | 37 open |
| 13 | University of Oxford | 643 | -3% | 3 open |
| 14 | BDO Global | 489 | -38% | 16 open |
| 15 | Morgan Stanley | 436 | +13% | 26 open |
| 16 | NatWest Group | 412 | -20% | 12 open |
| 17 | Wipro | 360 | +15% | No open roles now |
| 18 | Deutsche Bank | 348 | +5% | 4 open |
| 19 | IBM | 344 | -10% | 29 open |
| 20 | Citi | 339 | -30% | 34 open |
| 21 | Capgemini | 336 | +1% | 3 open |
| 22 | Alphabet Inc. | 336 | +61% | No open roles now |
| 23 | Armincl. related entities | 298 | -11% | 17 open |
| 24 | BP | 260 | -6% | 1 open |
| 25 | Ministry of Justice | 257 | +595% | No open roles now |
| 26 | Foster + Partners | 253 | +79% | 9 open |
| 27 | AtkinsRéalisincl. related entities | 220 | -16% | 24 open |
| 28 | Infosys Consulting - Europe | 219 | +5% | 3 open |
| 29 | Bank of America | 207 | +35% | 1 open |
| 30 | BT Group | 201 | +83% | No open roles now |
| 31 | HCL | 176 | +32% | No open roles now |
| 32 | BlackRock | 171 | +35% | 17 open |
| 33 | Unilever | 164 | +22% | No open roles now |
| 34 | Bank of England | 161 | +12% | 1 open |
| 35 | Mott MacDonald | 158 | -40% | 2 open |
| 36 | Lloyds Banking Group | 156 | -54% | 25 open |
| 37 | Grant Thornton | 153 | -8% | 3 open |
| 38 | Airbusincl. related entities | 145 | -27% | 14 open |
| 39 | Nomura | 141 | +50% | 10 open |
| 40 | Vodafoneincl. related entities | 138 | +66% | 9 open |
| 41 | EDF | 135 | +9% | 4 open |
| 42 | Microsoftincl. related entities | 134 | +29% | 2 open |
| 43 | American Express | 132 | +67% | No open roles now |
| 44 | Apple | 130 | +11% | 27 open |
| 45 | GE Vernova | 123 | -25% | No open roles now |
| 46 | Next plc | 122 | +4% | 21 open |
| 47 | NTT DATAincl. related entities | 119 | +53% | 16 open |
| 48 | Linklaters | 116 | +18% | 3 open |
| 49 | Boston Consulting Group | 115 | -25% | 6 open |
| 50 | Framestore | 113 | -3% | 4 open |
| 51 | Salesforce | 110 | +182% | 5 open |
| 52 | Aviva | 106 | +15% | No open roles now |
| 53 | Iberdrola | 103 | +37% | No open roles now |
| 54 | LSEG | 102 | +73% | 21 open |
| 55 | Turner & Townsend | 100 | +25% | 12 open |
| 56 | Wise | 100 | +22% | 11 open |
| 57 | AstraZeneca | 97 | -42% | 2 open |
| 58 | Schneider Electric | 95 | +46% | 2 open |
| 59 | Palantir | 91 | +44% | 5 open |
| 60 | AlphaSights | 91 | +26% | No open roles now |
| 61 | Reckitt | 90 | -28% | 2 open |
| 62 | Harris Federation | 89 | -36% | 1 open |
| 63 | Sky | 89 | +14% | No open roles now |
| 64 | Shell | 89 | -17% | No open roles now |
| 65 | Centrica | 88 | +110% | 5 open |
| 66 | WSP | 86 | +5% | 7 open |
| 67 | Agincare | 84 | +121% | 1 open |
| 68 | Jefferies | 83 | +46% | 12 open |
| 69 | GSK | 80 | -34% | 11 open |
| 70 | Ocado Group | 80 | -29% | 3 open |
| 71 | Lancaster University | 80 | -6% | 2 open |
| 72 | A&O Shearman | 80 | +100% | 1 open |
| 73 | Diageo | 79 | +55% | 3 open |
| 74 | IQVIA | 75 | +142% | 22 open |
| 75 | Squarepoint Capital | 75 | -6% | No open roles now |
| 76 | Société Généraleincl. related entities | 75 | +23% | No open roles now |
| 77 | Qube Research & Technologies | 74 | +30% | 16 open |
| 78 | Sainsbury's | 73 | -15% | 7 open |
| 79 | Dyson | 73 | -22% | No open roles now |
| 80 | Severn Trent | 73 | +70% | No open roles now |
| 81 | Marsh McLennan | 72 | +16% | 23 open |
| 82 | Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer | 72 | +60% | 7 open |
| 83 | RBC | 72 | +41% | 1 open |
| 84 | Blackstone | 70 | +75% | 13 open |
| 85 | RELX | 69 | -28% | 19 open |
| 86 | Jump Trading | 69 | +57% | 11 open |
| 87 | Expedia Group | 69 | -9% | 5 open |
| 88 | Baker Hughes | 68 | -34% | 1 open |
| 89 | Genpact | 61 | -16% | No open roles now |
| 90 | Rockstar Games | 59 | -17% | 1 open |
| 91 | Liberty Global | 57 | +10% | 4 open |
| 92 | FTI Consulting | 56 | -14% | 11 open |
| 93 | Procter & Gamble | 56 | -7% | 4 open |
| 94 | Octopus Energy | 55 | +62% | 3 open |
| 95 | JLL | 54 | +38% | 9 open |
| 96 | DRW | 53 | +33% | 8 open |
| 97 | Surrey County Council | 53 | +89% | 1 open |
| 98 | Moderna | 52 | new | 9 open |
| 99 | Clifford Chance | 52 | +49% | 2 open |
| 100 | Honeywell | 51 | +50% | 4 open |
Certificates of sponsorship assigned by each employer's register entities (related entities of one employer summed), Home Office Freedom of Information response FOI2025/12841, data to 2024. A high count does not mean every role is sponsored: check each posting.