Founder · London
Baris
The Wayfarer
Came to London the hard way and drew the map he wished he'd had. Builds it, breaks it, fixes it, reads every email.
Hello from London numbers as of 16 Oct 2026
We're building this in the open.
SponsorJobs is a job board for people who need a UK work visa: small, independent, and run by one person with a handful of tireless helpers. Here's how it's going, who's behind it, and what we fixed along the way.
A note from the founder
When I moved to London, I learned how hard it is to tell which job adverts will actually sponsor you. You spend an evening on an application, then find "no sponsorship" in the very last line.
So I built the thing I wished existed. If something here looks wrong, or you'd like to see a number I haven't shown yet, write to me. I read everything.
B
Baris
P.S. Yes, I check this page more often than I should.
The numbers
Honest ones. Counted by a script, not by a designer.
71,976
Live jobs
Every one read to the last line before it reaches you.
127,825
Licensed sponsors
Straight from the Home Office register, every day.
64%
From the employer
Taken from their own careers page, not a re-post.
1 in 7
Adverts that say no
Sponsor adverts that rule out sponsorship, or need UK nationality, residence or clearance.
Hourly
New jobs
Closed jobs swept out every day.
1
Human
Plus five very hard-working automations.
How it's going
The two numbers we watch
Every week since launch, dips included. The summer was quiet. Then it wasn't.
People we sent to employers
Clicks on Apply that took someone to an employer's application page, per week. Bots and double-counted clicks removed.
~6,900
since launch
This week so far: 964, on track for about 1,477 (dashed).
Members
People with a free account. Before mid-September you didn't need one, so almost nobody made one.
1,716
and counting
Why no visitor numbers? We only started counting real visitors, with bots filtered out, on 7 October. Visitors join this page once there are about three months of clean data. How we count
Where the jobs come from
The best job is the one straight from the employer's own careers page. Every week, that black bar gets a little longer.
- Employers' own careers pages
- 64%
- Job boards
- 36%
The crew
The fellowship of the sponsor licence
One human and five tireless automations. None of them sleep, except the human.
On every new advert
The Lorekeeper
Reads every advert
Reads each advert to the very last line, and strikes out the ones whispering "no sponsorship".
Once a day
The Warden of the Roll
Keeps the register
Fetches the Home Office roll of licensed sponsors. Fall off the roll, and your adverts leave with you.
On every new advert
The Pathfinder
Finds the employer
Follows each advert home to its employer on the register. If there's no road home, the advert stays out.
Every day
The Lantern Keeper
Closes filled jobs
Walks the halls and puts out the lamp of every job that has been filled.
Tuesdays, 08:00
The Herald
Sends job alerts
Rides out every Tuesday morning with a letter of new jobs picked for you.
Revenue: none yet. SponsorJobs Pro, our paid plan, is brand new. Revenue joins this page once there's enough of it to draw a line.
What we shipped lately
- This week
Employers' own careers pages now beat job-board copies, so you apply where the job really lives.
- Last week
Similar roles got smarter: matched by what the job is, not just what it’s called.
- Earlier
A weekly job alert, the Visa salary card, and a feed that learns what you open.
Things we fixed
A page that only shows wins isn't open. It's an advert.
We counted some clicks twice
Until 7 October our site loaded some apply links in the background when you hovered over them, so about one click in three was counted twice. We fixed it, and corrected the numbers on this page.
Nine quiet days
In May an over-eager security setting blocked our own job imports for nine days. Now an alarm tells us within the hour.
A counter that said 0
For a few hours the visa-options count on /jobs read "0". A tidy-up script zeroed the wrong number. Fixed the same day.
The small print
How we count
Every number on this page, and exactly what it means. A script recounts them every morning; the date at the top says when it last did.
Live jobs
Open jobs on SponsorJobs right now: matched to an employer on the Home Office sponsor register, not a duplicate of another listing, and not ruled out by the advert itself.
Licensed sponsors
Employers on the Home Office register of licensed sponsors (Worker and Temporary Worker routes). We download it once a day.
From the employer
The share of live jobs we took from the employer's own careers page, including NHS Jobs, rather than from a job board. When the same job is on both, we keep the employer's copy.
1 in 7 adverts that say no
From our study of 92,598 adverts from licensed sponsors: 14.1% ruled out sponsorship, or required UK nationality, years of UK residence or security clearance. We remove those adverts before they reach you.
People we sent to employers
Clicks on Apply that opened an employer's application page, counted per week. Clicks from bots are removed. Until 7 October our site loaded some apply links in the background when you hovered over them, which counted about one click in three twice. For the weeks before 12 October we kept only the share we proved were real clicks (two in three); from 12 October every click is counted directly. We can't see whether someone finished their application on the employer's site.
Members
People with a free SponsorJobs account, counted at the end of each week. Our own test accounts are left out. Since 17 September you need an account to apply, which is why the line takes off there.
Weeks and the dashed line
Weeks run Monday to Sunday (UTC). The current week is unfinished, so from its third day we draw it dashed at the pace so far: this week's count so far, scaled up to seven days.
Visitors and revenue
Not shown yet. We started counting real visitors, with bots filtered out, on 7 October; visitors join this page after about three months of clean data. There's no revenue yet; it joins once there's enough of it to draw a line. Once a number is on this page, it stays.
What should we show next?
Tell us which number you'd like on this page, or what you wish we'd build. A human reads it, promise.
Write to Baris