Top UK visa sponsors in Bio and life sciences: who sponsored the most in 2024
Employers hiring in Bio and life sciences 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.
| # | Employer | Visas sponsored in 2024 | vs 2023 | Open UK roles |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of Oxford | 643 | -3% | 3 open |
| 2 | Salesforce | 110 | +182% | 5 open |
| 3 | Turner & Townsend | 100 | +25% | 12 open |
| 4 | WSP | 86 | +5% | 7 open |
| 5 | GSK | 80 | -34% | 11 open |
| 6 | Lancaster University | 80 | -6% | 2 open |
| 7 | IQVIA | 75 | +142% | 22 open |
| 8 | Moderna | 52 | new | 9 open |
| 9 | Randox Laboratories | 50 | -38% | 4 open |
| 10 | Aon | 37 | -27% | 7 open |
| 11 | Mondelez International | 35 | +52% | 5 open |
| 12 | Lonza | 30 | -23% | 7 open |
| 13 | Bristol Myers Squibb | 30 | +11% | 1 open |
| 14 | Novartis | 27 | +17% | 2 open |
| 15 | AbbVie | 23 | +5% | 4 open |
| 16 | Johnson & Johnson | 21 | +75% | 9 open |
| 17 | Thermo Fisher Scientific | 17 | new | 10 open |
| 18 | Costello Medical | 14 | -7% | 7 open |
| 19 | Isomorphic Labs | 14 | +17% | 5 open |
| 20 | SGS | 13 | +44% | 6 open |
| 21 | Roche | 13 | -24% | 2 open |
| 22 | Illumina | 13 | +86% | 1 open |
| 23 | Leonardo | 12 | +9% | 43 open |
| 24 | Parexel | 11 | -67% | 6 open |
| 25 | Vertex Pharmaceuticals | 11 | -31% | 3 open |
| 26 | Ipsen | 10 | new | 6 open |
| 27 | Syneos Health | 10 | +25% | 5 open |
| 28 | Lumanity | 10 | -9% | 1 open |
| 29 | Astellas Pharma | 9 | new | 1 open |
| 30 | Oxford Nanopore Technologies | 7 | -30% | 3 open |
| 31 | QIAGEN | 7 | -12% | 1 open |
| 32 | Teledyne | 6 | +0% | 5 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.