Internships at licensed visa sponsors in the United Kingdom

26 internships at licensed visa sponsors are open in the United Kingdom on insiderOne as of 27 October 2026. Every employer here is on the Home Office register of licensed sponsors for the Skilled Worker route, as published on 26 Oct 2026. A licence means an employer can sponsor a visa, not that it will for a given role. Hiring most: Graphcore, Riverlane and Qube Research & Technologies. Each listing links to the company behind it and to the skills it tests for, so you can prove what you can do before you apply. Updated 27 October 2026.

Guide: The UK Graduate visa and sponsored jobs

Paid internships first.

Before you apply

The Graduate route is shrinking: Two years, or eighteen months from January: Apply on or before 31 December 2026 and it is two years; apply on or after 1 January 2027 and it is eighteen months. PhD holders get three years either way. No employer sponsor is needed and it cannot be extended, so the date you apply is worth more than six months of your life here.; Official source
Skilled Worker minimum salary: £41,700, or the going rate if it is higher: Each occupation code has its own going rate, and being above the headline figure is not enough if you are below the rate for your code. A lower threshold of £33,400 applies in some cases.; Official source
Right to work is checked before you start: By law, before the first day: An employer must check you are allowed to work for them before employing you, and faces a civil penalty if they do not. It is why a British application asks about your status early, and why saying nothing about it slows you down rather than helping.; Official source
Working on a Student visa: Limited, and some work is barred outright: How much you may work depends on your course level and whether it is term time. Self-employment and work as a professional sportsperson are not allowed at all, whatever the hours.; Official source

Say your right to work up front
An employer has to check it before you start and is fined if they get it wrong, so it is the first filter rather than a detail at offer stage. British citizen, settled status, Graduate route, or needing sponsorship: say which.
Graduate schemes close a year early
Most large employers recruit graduates in the autumn for the following September, and the popular ones close before Christmas. Applying in spring for an autumn start is usually a year late.
Spring weeks and insight programmes
First-year and penultimate-year schemes, mostly in finance and law, that lead directly to internship offers. They are the earliest real entry point and almost nobody applies to them on time.
No photograph, no date of birth
The opposite of the German and Gulf conventions. A CV carrying either reads as a legal risk to a British employer rather than as thorough.
Two pages, and one early on
A graduate CV is one page. Two is normal once there is real experience. Longer is read as an inability to edit.
Not everything is in London
Monzo's largest site is Cardiff, GoCardless is building in Leeds, Darktrace is Cambridge. Salaries are lower outside London and so is rent, usually by more.

Questions, answered.

Will these employers sponsor my visa?

Each one is on the Home Office register of licensed sponsors for the Skilled Worker route, as published on 26 Oct 2026, which means it can sponsor a visa. The register does not say whether a given role will be sponsored, so ask the employer before you apply. Each job page names the register entry it relies on.

How many internships at licensed visa sponsors in the United Kingdom are open right now?

26 at the time this page was built. The list is rebuilt every night from employers' own boards and the platforms they post on, and a role comes off when it closes at its source, or within a week of its deadline.

Are these internships in United Kingdom paid?

0 of the 26 state a stipend or say they are paid. Paid internships are listed first.

How do I apply?

Each listing links to where the employer takes applications, usually their own site or the platform they posted on. Prove a skill on insiderOne first and the receipt goes with you.

Rebuilt every night from employers' own boards and the platforms they post on. Prove a skill before you apply, and carry the receipt to every one of these.