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Our data · updated 12 Nov 2026

We read 493 AI job ads at visa sponsors. 44 mention sponsorship.

Of 493 AI job ads at UK and Dutch employers on the sponsor registers, 44 mention visa sponsorship, 24 say the employer can't sponsor that role and 425 say nothing. Most ads leave you to ask.

See the 44 ads
Mention sponsorship
44 (8.9%)
Say the employer can't sponsor
24 (4.9%)
Say nothing
425 (86%)

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What to do about it

  1. 1

    Don't read silence as a no

    86% of ads say nothing either way, including some at employers whose other ads do mention it. If the employer is on the register, it's worth asking.

  2. 2

    Ask on the first call

    Ask whether this role can be sponsored, before you spend time on interviews. A register entry means an employer can sponsor, not that it will for this role.

  3. 3

    Read the whole ad and the form

    A refusal can be one short line, such as "must have the right to work in the UK". Some application forms also ask about sponsorship, or say more than the ad does.

A few employers say most of it

Only 10 of the 96 employers mention sponsorship in any open ad. Anthropic, Apollo Research, Callosum, Monzo and Wayve account for 33 of the 44 ads that do.

Most of the other employers' ads don't say either way. That isn't a no, so you have to ask.

Ads that mention sponsorship, by employer

Being on a register doesn't mean every role qualifies

All 24 ads that say no are at employers on a sponsor register. Graphcore alone has 17 of them. We leave these ads out of our job lists.

On 2 Nov 2026, 8 of the 24 were fellowships, internships or similar programmes. The usual wording was close to this line from a Graphcore ad: Unfortunately, we are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this role.

Ads that say the employer can't sponsor

Where ads mention it most

Dutch ads rarely mention visas. That may be because on the highly skilled migrant route the employer applies for the permit, so being an IND recognised sponsor matters more than a line in the ad. Some of these groups are small, so don't read much into small differences.

By country

  • UK only42 of 399
  • Netherlands only2 of 46
  • Both countries0 of 24

By role type

  • Research3 of 8
  • Data science6 of 48
  • AI/ML engineering29 of 324
  • Forward-deployed6 of 89

By level, where the ad states one

  • Entry level2 of 25
  • Mid level4 of 38
  • Senior7 of 145
  • Staff or principal6 of 54
  • Manager6 of 47

A relocation line isn't a visa line: 60 ads mention relocation support, and 35 of those don't mention visas.

What the ads actually say

How we counted

We check the job boards of 96 employers with open AI, ML and data roles every day, and match each employer against the UK register of licensed sponsors and the Dutch IND register. An AI model then reads each ad and records what it says about visas, with the exact line it relied on.

The model can be wrong. On 2 Nov 2026 we opened 39 ads marked as saying nothing. One said in its application form that the employer sponsors for some roles, and another asked in its form whether applicants need sponsorship. So the true number that mention it is probably a little higher.

These are the employers we track, not every employer on the registers, and open roles change daily. The figures here update with each refresh.

Using these figures

You're welcome to cite them with a link to this page. More is on our data page, and every UK employer behind these ads is in the list of UK companies that sponsor visas.

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