UK Update3 October 2026
We counted our own job list by town this afternoon, 3 October 2026. There are 786 live jobs on it, every one at a company that was on the Home Office register of licensed sponsors this morning. 63 of them appeared today and 289 in the last seven days.
London holds 104 of the 786. That is about one job in eight. The other 682 are in some other town.
We think that is worth saying plainly, because most people start with London, and London is the small half of this list.
Our own list of towns gives us the 200 with the most jobs on them. Those 200 towns hold 675 of the 786 jobs. The remaining 111 are in smaller places still, or on an advert that did not write a town at all.
Inside those 200, 106 towns have exactly one job on them today, and another 37 have two. So the usual shape of a sponsored job is not a city centre with hundreds of them. It is one job, in one town, that nobody is queueing for.
If you are willing to move, that is the part of the list worth reading. If you are not, a town with one job is still one job you can apply to today.
The London number is the lowest honest version of itself. Some London addresses do not arrive written as London. Bishopsgate, Blackfriars and Barbican come through under their own names, because that is what the advert said, and we print the town the advert gave us instead of guessing at a bigger one. So the real London figure sits a little above 104.
And one town can arrive under two spellings, which splits its own number. Blackpool is on the list twice, 7 jobs and 3, so Blackpool really has 10. Oxford is there as Oxford with 3 and as Oxford District with 9, so Oxford really has 12. When you search a town on our list, search the short name and read what comes back, because the long version may be a second row.
This is the reason the geography is useful rather than just interesting.
GOV.UK sets the salary a Skilled Worker job has to reach by the type of work, not by the town. The minimum is the higher of £41,700 a year and the going rate for that kind of work. There is no cheaper floor for a cheaper town, and the lower minimums that do exist are about your own case, for example extending a visa you already hold, not about where the office is.
So a job in Derby and the same job in London are held to the same number, while the rent is not the same number at all. That is a fair thing to weigh before you spend a week on an application.
Of the jobs on our list that put a figure on the advert, 188 say £25,000 a year or more, 132 say £30,000 or more, and 90 say £40,000 or more. Most adverts still say nothing about pay, so ask. What is the annual salary for this role, and does the company sponsor a Skilled Worker visa for it. Both halves matter, and a serious employer answers both.
Open the jobs page and pick your town. The count beside it is the real number of live jobs there this afternoon, counted from the database on the request, not stored and not rounded.
Looking is free. There is no account and no password to look. The register edition behind today's list is the one the Home Office published on 2 October 2026, which named 127,334 licensed sponsors.
You apply direct to the employer, on the employer's own website. We are not an agency, we never see your application and we never stand between you and the company.
We are a job alert service, not immigration advisers, and this is not legal advice. For your own case speak to a regulated adviser or a support organisation.
Where this comes from: GOV.UK: Skilled Worker visa, your jobGOV.UK: register of licensed sponsors, workers
3 October 2026 