EBI Offers sponsorship
The European Bioinformatics Institute is an intergovernmental scientific institution providing open-access biological data resources.
The UK Home Office lists EBI as a licensed sponsor (A-rated, Global Business Mobility: Senior or Specialist Worker route). EBI explicitly offers visa sponsorship in some of its current job adverts — look for the “Sponsorship offered” label below. We're showing 12 of their current openings.
Sponsor licence details
Sourced from the UK Home Office register of licensed sponsors.
Sponsorship history
Certificates of Sponsorship EBI assigned each year, from Home Office figures released under the Freedom of Information Act.
Skilled Worker and Global Business Mobility routes. One certificate is assigned for each sponsored hire, visa extension or change of employer, so a person can be counted more than once. “1–5” is withheld by the Home Office; the 2025 figures list only sponsors with 5 or more (“—”). Matched to this employer by its name on the sponsor register. Sources: FOI 2025/12841 (2021–24), FOI2026/03501 (2025). Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Licence timeline Pro
Every change we've seen on the Home Office register for EBI, and what its recent adverts say about sponsorship.
See this employer's full licence history: when it was licensed, rating and route changes, and when it last offered sponsorship in an advert.
Unlock with ProAbout EBI
The European Bioinformatics Institute is part of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, an intergovernmental organisation founded in 1974. It operates as a scientific institution that manages open-access big data resources for the life sciences, enabling researchers worldwide to browse biological data, perform analyses, and share scientific results.
The institution runs research groups, postdoctoral schemes, and a doctoral programme. It also provides professional training in bioinformatics, runs a knowledge-exchange industry programme for translational partnerships, and supports the coordination of biological data provision across Europe.
Open roles
12 live positions matched to this sponsor licence.