How we work out Employer Standing

What it is

Employer Standing answers one question: can an HR team or a candidate rely on this employer as a sponsor? Higher is better. It is Employer Standing version 1.0, recomputed daily. Every profile lists each input with its value, its effect on the score, its source and the date it was checked.

What goes in

Only objective facts from official registers. No inference, no sentiment and no third-party reviews.

A sector input counts only where the law or the sector makes it relevant. One that does not apply is neither a plus nor a minus and is shown as not applicable. A fact we cannot check is shown as not found, never as failed.

How the score is built

Every score starts at 50. Each input below adds or removes points, and the total is kept between 0 and 100. These are the version 1.0 weights.

• Home Office ratingA +15, B −20
• Removals from the register in the last 24 monthsnone +10; each removal −12, capped at −24
• Licence age (first seen on the register at least 2 years ago, using the real date, not the date we started observing)+5
• Company active at Companies House+5 (dissolved or in liquidation: Unverified)
• Filingson time +7; any overdue −10
• Company age5 years or more +5; 2 to 5 years +2; under 1 year −5
• Insolvency history or Gazette notice−15
• CQC (health and care sectors only)registered +5; rated Good or Outstanding +5; Requires improvement −5; Inadequate −10
• FSA hygiene rating (food and hospitality only)5 +3; 0 to 2 −5
• Charity Commission registrationregistered +3
• Data-protection fee registrationfound +4
• Modern Slavery statement, where required (statutory threshold: £36 million turnover)assumed to apply when the company files large accounts at Companies House (turnover and headcount figures are not public for most companies); filed +4; missing −6
• Gender pay gap report, where required (statutory threshold: 250 or more employees)assumed to apply when the company files large accounts at Companies House (turnover and headcount figures are not public for most companies); filed +3; missing −5
• Public contract won+4

Bands

• Established80 and above
• Solid60 to 79
• Developing40 to 59
• Limitedunder 40
• Unverifiedno matched company, or too little public data to score

What it is not

• It is not the Home Office rating. The letters A and B belong to the Home Office and we never show our measure as a letter.
• It is not legal advice and not a prediction about any licence.
• It does not use Land Registry data or any private source.

Observation period

We have compared published copies of the register since 16 May 2026. Dates such as “first seen” start from there; licences already listed on that day carry that date as the earliest we can show.

Is this your company?

If a fact on your profile is wrong, tell us and name the source. Corrections recompute the score.

See it in use on the UK Sponsor Hiring Index or search the register.