FOI aggregate snapshot

UK sponsorship activity, made easier to read

Explore how Certificate of Sponsorship activity in the imported Freedom of Information response is distributed across visa routes, salary bands and disclosed occupations.

Activity data, not licence status

These aggregates do not confirm that an organisation is currently licensed. Use the sponsor directory for company profiles.

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At a glance

Imported dataset snapshot

Counts reflect the loaded FOI dataset, not today's register.

Estimated CoS activity

401,303–856,483

Lower–upper bound

Sponsor profiles

60,787

60,224 in FOI activity

FOI aggregate rows

123,905

3 visa route groups

Company number coverage

52%

31,690 profiles matched

Exact disclosed CoS

287,508

Suppressed cells

113,795

Suppression assumption

* = 1–5 certificates

Visa route by salary band

Minimum estimate shown

The stacked bars use the conservative lower bound. Focus or hover a route to see its complete 1–5 suppression range.

Less than £20,000
£20,000 - £49,999.99
£50,000 - £79,999.99
£80,000 or over
Contract

Conservative CoS estimates by visa route and salary band
Visa route	Less than £20,000	£20,000 - £49,999.99	£50,000 - £79,999.99	£80,000 or over	Contract	Total range
Skilled Worker & Tier 2	1,224–4,764	212,688–508,028	49,232–117,584	28,979–79,067	679–1,835	292,802–711,278
Temporary Worker & Tier 5	13,218–15,654	39,426–43,926	2,285–3,465	3,186–4,442	30,485–36,421	88,600–103,908
Global Business Mobility & Intra Company Transfer	15–75	2,886–5,078	11,566–19,186	5,431–16,943	3–15	19,901–41,297

Top disclosed SOC occupations

Ranked by the conservative minimum where the FOI response provides a Standard Occupational Classification code.

Conservative minimum

1
SOC 6135
Care workers and home carers
2
SOC 9111
Farm workers
3
SOC 2237
Other registered nursing professionals - Band 5 & equivalent
4
SOC 2211
Generalist medical practitioners (England)
5
SOC 3415
Musicians
6
SOC 5112
Horticultural trades
7
SOC 2134
Programmers and software development professionals
8
SOC 6136
Senior care workers

Read with care

What this page can—and cannot—show

A bounded aggregate

Numeric CoS values are counted exactly. For every suppressed*value, the lower estimate adds 1 and the upper estimate adds 5. The range avoids inventing false precision.

No time-series analysis

The source is presented as one FOI aggregate snapshot with no time axis. These charts cannot establish trends, current hiring levels or present-day sponsor licensing.