UK visa sponsorship job boards compared
Most UK visa sponsorship job boards check the employer, not the job. They match a vacancy to the Home Office register of licensed sponsors and label it sponsored, which tells you a company could sponsor someone, not that it would sponsor you for that role. Two go further and test the occupation code and salary. Free tiers exist everywhere; the paid tiers mostly buy speed and volume.
How this was checked
Every price and count below was read off the site itself on 22 September 2026, from pages anyone can see without signing in. No accounts were created, so where a price only appears after signing up, this page says so instead of guessing. Sites change their pricing without notice, so treat the date as part of the fact and check the figure before you pay.
JLocate is in the table because leaving it out would make the comparison dishonest, not because it belongs at the top. It has no real job inventory, which is the main thing every other site here has.
What each one costs
| Site | Free tier | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| UK Visa Jobs | 30 jobs, on the first two pages of results | Explore £3.99 a month, Achieve £6.49 a month, both billed every 6 months |
| Hunt UK Visa Sponsors | Yes, with newer jobs held back | Price not published without signing up |
| Sponsored Jobs UK | Full board | No candidate plan on the site |
| MyVisaJobs UK | Full directory | No candidate plan; it sends you to a partner board |
| Student Circus | Full access through a partner university | None, but you need a partner university email |
| GradSponsor Jobs | Explorer, £0 a month | Candidate £6.99 a month. An advisory tier is marked coming soon |
| SkilledJobs | Searching, no account needed | The Pass, £4.99 a week or £12.99 for 30 days |
| JLocate | Everything | Nothing to buy |
Read what the free tier actually withholds before paying. On several of these it is the delay on new listings or the apply link, not the sponsorship information, so the paid tier is buying speed rather than a better answer.
What each one actually verifies
This is the part that decides whether a listing is worth your time. Checking the employer against the Home Office register is a real check, and nearly everyone does it. Checking the job is different work: it needs the occupation code, the salary, and the rate that applies to you rather than to everyone.
| Site | Checks the employer | Checks the job | Checks your situation |
|---|---|---|---|
| UK Visa Jobs | Yes, calls listings verified | Method not published | No |
| Hunt UK Visa Sponsors | Yes, against the register | Yes: occupation code, going rate, and whether that sponsor has issued visas on that code before | No |
| Sponsored Jobs UK | Yes, register employers only | Not stated | No |
| MyVisaJobs UK | Yes, a directory of the register | No, it lists companies rather than jobs | No |
| Student Circus | Yes, employer level | Not stated | No, but it is limited to students by design |
| GradSponsor Jobs | Yes, licence badge per job | Yes: it flags salary against the threshold and shows the code | No |
| SkilledJobs | Yes, register checked and dated on the page | Yes: it marks listings below the £41,700 threshold | No |
| JLocate | Yes, on a copy of the register | Yes: code, salary, going rate and what the ad says | Yes: new entrant, returner window and where you are applying from |
The column that is empty almost everywhere is the last one. The threshold is not one number. A job at £38,500 fails for most applicants and passes for a new entrant on the right code, and a job at £45,000 passes the general bar and still fails on a code whose going rate is £54,700. A board that labels a job sponsored without knowing which of those you are cannot tell you which it is. How the new-entrant salary rate works sets out the rule, and the going rate for every code gives the figures.
How many jobs each one claims
These are the sites' own numbers, as displayed on 22 September 2026. They count different things, so read them as scale rather than as a league table: a directory of licensed companies is not comparable with a board of live vacancies.
- Hunt UK Visa Sponsors: 112,100+ live jobs, filtered down from 188,600+ ads, and 127,600+ sponsors from the register.
- UK Visa Jobs: 10,000+ jobs on the paid tiers.
- Sponsored Jobs UK: 1,682+ live roles.
- MyVisaJobs UK: 127,708 sponsors indexed and 299 occupation codes tracked, updated the same day. A directory, not a job board.
- Student Circus: jobs from 1,000+ employers, reachable through partner universities.
- SkilledJobs: 713 live listings from 388 licensed sponsors, with the register checked on 21 September 2026 stated on the page.
- GradSponsor Jobs: 180 sponsored roles.
- JLocate: no real listings at all. The 26 vacancies inside it are fictional demo data, labelled wherever they appear.
A large number is not automatically better. A board that keyword-matches the phrase visa sponsorship out of job descriptions will return far more results than one that matches employers against the register, and a good share of them will not be sponsored roles.
How to choose between them
- Start free, on two of them. Every site here has a free tier. Run the same search on two and see how much the results overlap before any money changes hands.
- Find out what the paid tier withholds. If it is a delay on new listings, ask yourself whether you are applying fast enough for that to matter yet.
- Check whether the sponsorship claim is dated. A register copy from last week is fine. An undated claim that a job is sponsored is not something you can check.
- Check one listing yourself before trusting the rest. Take a role the site calls sponsored, look the employer up on the register, and see whether the salary clears the figure for its occupation code.
- Keep the check separate from the search. Whichever board you use, the decision about whether a job can sponsor you is the same set of rules, and it does not depend on where you found the job.
If a site's own guides still describe the Graduate visa as 2 years without the 1 January 2027 date, or quote a salary threshold that is not £41,700, treat its other figures with the same caution. What changes on 1 January 2027 has the dates.
Where JLocate fits, and where it does not
JLocate is not competing for listings, because it has none. It is the check you run on a job you found somewhere else. Paste a vacancy from any of the boards above and it tests the employer against a copy of the real register, the occupation code against the eligible list, the salary against the figure for that code, and the rate against your own situation, then says which of the four it could not establish rather than rounding up to sponsored.
What that means in practice: if you want a feed of vacancies, you need one of the other sites, and this page is a fair place to pick one. If what you want is to stop wasting applications on roles that were never going to clear the bar, that is the part JLocate does. Why a sponsor licence is not a sponsored job explains the gap the boards leave.
JLocate is free, has no account, and keeps what you enter in your browser. It is also information rather than advice: before you rely on a result for your own case, check it with an adviser regulated by the Immigration Advice Authority, or a solicitor.
Questions people ask
What is the best job board for visa sponsorship in the UK?
It depends on what you are short of. For volume, Hunt UK Visa Sponsors and UK Visa Jobs list the most roles. For a free directory of licensed companies, MyVisaJobs UK. If your university is a Student Circus partner, that is free and aimed at students. None of them decides whether a specific job clears the salary bar for your own situation, which is the check that actually rules applications in or out.
Are paid visa sponsorship job boards worth it?
The paid tiers mostly buy earlier access and more listings, not better checking. Prices on 22 September 2026 ran from £3.99 a month on UK Visa Jobs to £4.99 a week on SkilledJobs. Before paying, check what the free tier withholds: on several sites it is the delay on new jobs, or the apply link, rather than the sponsorship information itself.
Do these sites verify that a job offers visa sponsorship?
Almost all of them verify the employer against the Home Office register, which is a real check. Verifying the job is different and rarer: it needs the occupation code, the salary and the rate that applies to you. A job at a licensed sponsor can still fail on a medium-skilled code or a salary below the going rate, and most boards will still show it as sponsored.
Is JLocate a job board?
No, and it is listed here so the comparison is honest rather than as a recommendation. It has no real job inventory: the 26 vacancies inside it are fictional demo data. What it does is run the five checks on a vacancy you paste in from anywhere, against your own situation, with every figure linked to GOV.UK and dated.
Found something on any of these boards? Paste the vacancy and the five checks run against your own situation, with the employer looked up on a copy of the real register.
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