# What is the difference between an H-1B employer record and a UK sponsor licence?

Source: https://realanalystjobs.com/answers/h1b-employer-record-vs-uk-sponsor-licence
Live data from Real Analyst Jobs, 9 November 2026. Category: UK visa sponsorship. By Anil Kumar, founder. Methodology: https://realanalystjobs.com/data. Updated 9 November 2026.

An H-1B employer record is history: USCIS publishes how many H-1B petitions it approved for each employer in past fiscal years (USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub, data as of 30 June 2026). A UK sponsor licence is a current permission: the Home Office register lists employers licensed to sponsor Skilled Worker visas now. Neither promises that a particular vacancy will be sponsored. 546 of 1,540 companies on the board have at least one approved H-1B worker on record. 134 employers with UK analyst roles on realanalystjobs.com on 9 November 2026 are on the Home Office register (register of 27 October 2026).

## Side by side

The two signals answer different questions, so read them differently.

|  | H-1B employer record (US) | UK sponsor licence |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Published by | USCIS, in the H-1B Employer Data Hub | The Home Office, in the Register of licensed sponsors: workers |
| What it shows | Petitions approved per employer and fiscal year, across every occupation | Organisations licensed to sponsor, by route, with their town |
| Past or present | History (our copy has data as of 30 June 2026) | Current at the register date (27 October 2026) |
| Promises a vacancy? | No | No |
| Missing from our data means | Not matched by name, not that it never sponsored | Not matched by name, not that it cannot sponsor |

H-1B employer record (US) and UK sponsor licence compared, 9 November 2026

## Common mistakes

Each of these reads more into a record than it holds:

- Treating H-1B approvals as an offer: they count past petitions for every kind of role at the employer.
- Treating a certified Labor Condition Application as an approved H-1B: an LCA is a Department of Labor step, not a USCIS approval.
- Treating a UK licence as a sponsored vacancy: the licence lets the employer sponsor; each role is still the employer's decision and must meet the Skilled Worker rules.
- Treating not matched as never: both of our matches are by name and miss some employers.

## What the posting says still decides

For either country, the posting's own wording is what applies to that vacancy. A posting that says it will not sponsor means it, whatever the record or the register shows.

How we matched: the employer of each UK role on realanalystjobs.com on 9 November 2026 is compared with the Home Office Register of licensed sponsors: workers (register of 27 October 2026, 122,657 organisations on the Skilled Worker and Global Business Mobility: Senior or Specialist Worker routes). A match needs a hand-checked alias or an exact match on a distinctive name; there is no fuzzy guessing, so some licensed employers are missed. Only roles located in the UK are counted.

## Where the numbers come from

Every number on this page is computed from the live analyst roles on realanalystjobs.com on 9 November 2026, read from the employers' own career pages and re-checked daily, and it updates as roles open and close. H-1B figures come from the USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub (data as of 2026-06-30). Nothing is estimated or projected.

## Sources

- Employers' own careers pages: Every live role and what its posting says about sponsorship, checked 9 November 2026. Each role links to its posting.
- [USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub](https://www.uscis.gov/tools/reports-and-studies/h-1b-employer-data-hub): Approved H-1B workers per employer, data as of 30 June 2026.
- [Home Office: Register of licensed sponsors: workers](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/register-of-licensed-sponsors-workers): Organisations licensed to sponsor workers, register of 27 October 2026.

## Frequently asked

### What is the difference between an H-1B employer record and a UK sponsor licence?

An H-1B employer record is history: USCIS publishes how many H-1B petitions it approved for each employer in past fiscal years. A UK sponsor licence is a current permission: the Home Office register lists employers licensed to sponsor Skilled Worker visas now. Neither promises that a particular vacancy will be sponsored. 546 of 1,540 companies on the board have at least one approved H-1B worker on record. 134 employers with UK analyst roles on realanalystjobs.com on 9 November 2026 are on the Home Office register (register of 27 October 2026).

### Does a company with H-1B approvals also sponsor in the UK?

Not necessarily. A US H-1B record says nothing about UK sponsorship; check the Home Office register for the UK entity's legal name, which can differ from the brand.

### Is an H-1B LCA the same as an approved H-1B?

No. A Labor Condition Application is certified by the Department of Labor before a petition is filed; an approval is a USCIS decision on the petition.

## See the roles

- [UK visa sponsorship jobs at licensed sponsors](https://realanalystjobs.com/uk-visa-sponsorship-jobs)
- [Which companies hiring analysts sponsor H-1B](https://realanalystjobs.com/answers/which-companies-hiring-analysts-sponsor-h1b)
- [Data analyst jobs in the UK with visa sponsorship](https://realanalystjobs.com/jobs/data-analyst-jobs-in-uk-with-visa-sponsorship)
- [How many analyst jobs are open in the UK](https://realanalystjobs.com/answers/analyst-jobs-in-the-uk)
- [All analyst jobs in the UK](https://realanalystjobs.com/jobs/analyst-jobs-uk)