UK Sponsor Licence Register, June 2026: 639 Firms Removed, 1,360 Added (Net +721)

In June 2026, 1,360 organisations were added to the UK Register of Licensed Sponsors and 639 no longer appear — a net increase of 721, according to Tarve's analysis of the Home Office register. That makes June the busier of the two months we have now measured, with more additions and more disappearances than May on both sides of the ledger.

The register — the Home Office's public list of every organisation licensed to sponsor workers on routes such as Skilled Worker — stood at 126,736 licensed organisations as of the 15 July 2026 register sync. Behind that headline, June's movement was heavily concentrated: London dominated both the additions and the removals, and the Skilled Worker route appeared on the overwhelming majority of changes in each direction.

Key findings

• 1,360 organisations were added to the sponsor register in June 2026.
• 639 organisations no longer appear on the register.
• The net change was +721 — the register grew again.
• London topped both tables, with 382 additions and 147 removals.
• The Skilled Worker route was held by 1,304 of the added organisations and 620 of the removed ones.
• The register listed 126,736 licensed organisations as of the 15 July 2026 register sync.

June 2026 at a glance

Metric	Value
Organisations added	1,360
Organisations that no longer appear	639
Net change	+721
Raw additions before deduplication	1,380
Raw disappearances before deduplication	659
Likely renames or re-registrations excluded	20

How we measured this

Tarve keeps a synced copy of the official gov.uk Register of Licensed Sponsors: workers. For this analysis we ran an organisation-level diff across register snapshots ingested on 1, 10, 16 and 24 June 2026, tracking when each organisation first appears on the register and when it stops appearing.

Raw snapshot diffs overstate real churn, because the same organisation sometimes drops off the register and reappears under a slightly different name — a rebrand, a changed legal suffix, a trading name bolted on. We matched likely renames and re-registrations (near-identical names in the same town) and excluded 20 such pairs from both sides of the count. That takes the raw figures — 1,380 additions and 659 disappearances — down to the published 1,360 and 639.

One rule of framing we hold ourselves to: we never describe a removal as a Home Office revocation. When an organisation no longer appears on the register, that can mean its licence was revoked, that it surrendered the licence voluntarily, or that the organisation ceased to trade — the register does not state why an entry disappears. For the same reason, we are not naming any added or removed organisations in this edition.

Where the new sponsors are

London accounted for 382 of June's 1,360 additions — far more than any other town on the register. The rest of the top ten is a familiar spread of large regional cities, led by Birmingham with 32.

Town	Organisations added
London	382
Birmingham	32
Edinburgh	17
Manchester	17
Glasgow	16
Leeds	15
Bristol	14
Leicester	13
Nottingham	13
Coventry	12

Town names are shown as recorded on the register, which reflects the address each sponsor supplied — so a head office registered in one city can still sponsor roles elsewhere in the country.

Where sponsors dropped off the register

The removals table has a similar shape at the top — London first by a wide margin, with 147 — but the order shifts underneath. Manchester ranks second for removals, higher than its position on the additions table, and Belfast enters the removals top ten without featuring in the additions top ten at all.

Town	Organisations no longer on the register
London	147
Manchester	19
Birmingham	16
Leicester	12
Nottingham	8
Bristol	7
Coventry	7
Edinburgh	6
Leeds	6
Belfast	6

Every town in the additions top ten except Glasgow also appears in the removals top ten — a reminder that sponsor churn is a feature of every big hiring market rather than a story about any one city.

Which visa routes drove the change

A note before the tables: an organisation can hold licences for more than one route at the same time, so the route rows below add up to more than the headline counts of 1,360 additions and 639 removals.

On the additions side, Skilled Worker — the UK's main general work visa route — was held by 1,304 of the new entries. Global Business Mobility: Senior or Specialist Worker, the intra-company transfer route, was a distant second with 83.

Route	Organisations added
Skilled Worker	1,304
Global Business Mobility: Senior or Specialist Worker	83
Tier 2 Ministers of Religion	32
Religious Worker	15
Charity Worker	13
Creative Worker	12
Global Business Mobility: UK Expansion Worker	12
International Sportsperson	9
Global Business Mobility: Graduate Trainee	4
Global Business Mobility: Service Supplier	2

Removals follow the same pattern. Skilled Worker licences appear on 620 of the organisations that no longer feature on the register, with Global Business Mobility: Senior or Specialist Worker again in second place on 43.

Route	Organisations no longer on the register
Skilled Worker	620
Global Business Mobility: Senior or Specialist Worker	43
Charity Worker	10
Global Business Mobility: UK Expansion Worker	7
Religious Worker	7
Tier 2 Ministers of Religion	6
Global Business Mobility: Graduate Trainee	2
International Sportsperson	2
International Agreement	1
Government Authorised Exchange	1

As with the additions, multi-route sponsors are counted once per route, so these rows exceed the 639 headline figure.

How June compares with May

In our May 2026 register changes analysis we reported 1,040 organisations added and 508 removed — a net increase of 532. June was busier on both sides: more organisations joined the register, more dropped off it, and the net growth was larger. Two consecutive months of net growth suggest employer demand for sponsor licences is still outrunning attrition, even with removals continuing at a steady clip.

Download the data (CSV)

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Frequently asked questions

How many companies lost their UK sponsor licence in June 2026?

639 organisations no longer appear on the UK sponsor register after June 2026, based on Tarve's comparison of register snapshots. The register does not state why an entry disappears, so this figure should not be read as 639 Home Office revocations.

How many companies were added to the UK sponsor register in June 2026?

1,360 organisations were added to the register in June 2026. The raw snapshot diff showed 1,380 additions, and we excluded 20 likely renames or re-registrations to avoid double counting.

Did the UK sponsor register grow or shrink in June 2026?

It grew, by a net 721 organisations. As of the 15 July 2026 register sync, the register listed 126,736 licensed organisations.

Which cities gained the most new sponsors in June 2026?

London, by a wide margin, with 382 additions. Birmingham (32), Edinburgh (17), Manchester (17) and Glasgow (16) round out the top five.

Which visa route saw the most sponsor register changes in June 2026?

Skilled Worker, on both sides: 1,304 of the added organisations and 620 of the removed ones held a Skilled Worker licence. Because a sponsor can hold several routes at once, route counts overlap and exceed the headline totals.

Was June 2026 busier than May for sponsor register changes?

Yes. In May 2026 we recorded 1,040 additions and 508 removals (net +532); in June both figures were higher — 1,360 additions and 639 removals (net +721).

What this means for job seekers

A sponsor licence is a prerequisite for most UK work visas, so this churn has a practical edge: an employer that could sponsor you a few weeks ago may no longer be able to. Before applying for a sponsored role — and certainly before accepting an offer that depends on sponsorship — check the employer's current status in Tarve's licensed sponsor directory, which is kept in sync with the official register.

If a sponsor does drop off the register while you work there, what happens next depends on why. Our guide to UK sponsor licence compliance in 2026 explains the duties sponsors carry and the ways a licence can be lost, and our earlier investigation into sponsor licence revocations from February to April 2026 looks at what removal waves have meant for affected workers.

About this data

All figures in this article come from Tarve's analysis of the gov.uk Register of Licensed Sponsors, using register snapshots ingested on 1, 10, 16 and 24 June 2026, plus a register sync on 15 July 2026 for the overall total. This is data journalism, not legal or immigration advice: if a sponsor's register status affects your visa or your hiring plans, speak to a regulated immigration adviser.