UK Sponsor Watch: 13,536 new sponsors (Sep 2026) with Venky (Venkatesh Dasari)

13,536 UK employers got a Skilled Worker sponsor licence between 29 Sep 2025 and 18 Sep 2026. 8,871 dropped off. Consultancies sell year-old 'sponsor lists' for thousands. This is built from the register published 18 Sep 2026, and a new licence usually means a company that has just decided to hire from abroad and has no queue of applicants yet. You get: 1) 17-page PDF report: the numbers, top 30 cities, sector split, 16 city pages (London, Birmingham, Manchester, Glasgow, Leicester, Leeds, Coventry, Bristol, Edinburgh, Nottingham, Liverpool, Sheffield, Cardiff, Newcastle, Southampton, Cambridge) with sample new IT/software sponsors, the removed-sponsors check nobody does, and a 5-step outreach playbook with the exact LinkedIn message. 2) Spreadsheet (xlsx): every one of the 13,536 new and 8,871 removed sponsors with city, county, rating and a sector tag, filterable. Sheets: New sponsors, Removed sponsors, By city, By sector. Sector tags are keyword guesses from company names. On the register = can sponsor, not = is hiring; cross-check with live jobs. Not immigration advice. Never pay anyone for a Certificate of Sponsorship. Source: GOV.UK register of licensed sponsors (workers). Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Issue 2 (next 30 days of new sponsors) coming monthly. Priced so a student can afford it.