Data · updated 17 Oct 2026
AI hiring at UK & Dutch visa sponsors: live data
As of 17 Oct 2026, 446 AI roles are open at 86 employers on the UK or Dutch visa-sponsor registers. 46 of the postings mention visa sponsorship; 14 more say the role can't be sponsored.
446
open AI roles
86
employers on a sponsor register
46
postings mention visa sponsorship
14
postings say no sponsorship
Roles
Open AI roles by country and type
| Role type | UK | Netherlands | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| AI/ML engineering | 253 | 47 | 300 |
| Forward-deployed | 78 | 17 | 95 |
| Research | 12 | 0 | 12 |
| Data science | 53 | 2 | 55 |
Visas
What the postings say about sponsorship
Being on a register means an employer can sponsor; it doesn't mean every role is open to it. So we also read each posting. In the UK, 46 of 396 postings mention visa sponsorship. In the Netherlands, 0 of 66 do: Dutch postings rarely mention visas, because IND recognised-sponsor status is what the highly skilled migrant (kennismigrant) route requires.
14 postings at licensed sponsors say outright that the role can't be sponsored. We leave those out of the job lists.
| Employer | Mention sponsorship | Open roles |
|---|---|---|
| Anthropic | 17 | 18 |
| Monzo | 10 | 11 |
| Apollo Research | 7 | 7 |
| Wayve | 5 | 17 |
| Marshmallow | 3 | 3 |
| Jump Trading | 2 | 4 |
| Wise | 1 | 12 |
| Neara | 1 | 1 |
Pay
Stated pay for UK AI roles
Only 56 of 396 UK postings state pay, so treat these as indicative. Figures are the midpoint of each stated annual base-pay range. Only 2 Dutch postings state pay, too few to summarise.
| Role type | Median | Middle half | Postings |
|---|---|---|---|
| AI/ML engineering | £178k | £132k–£240k | 32 |
| Forward-deployed | £144k | £130k–£174k | 12 |
| Data science | £115k | £112k–£124k | 8 |
Employers
Most open AI roles
Method
How these figures are made
- Every day we read the public job boards of AI-active employers and keep AI, ML, forward-deployed, research and data-science roles located in the UK or the Netherlands.
- Each employer is matched by legal name to the Home Office register of licensed sponsors (checked 16 Oct 2026) or the IND public register of recognised sponsors (checked 5 Oct 2026). Doubtful matches are reviewed by hand.
- A language model (Claude Haiku) reads each posting for pay, visa, relocation and Dutch-language mentions. A posting counts as "says no sponsorship" only when the sentence it quotes is found word for word in the posting.
- Figures update daily. More on the method.
Download: employers.csv (one row per employer). Free to reuse underCC BY 4.0.
Cite as: AI Expat Jobs, "AI hiring at UK & Dutch visa sponsors", data as of 17 Oct 2026, https://aiexpatjobs.com/data/
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