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Overview

This dataset provides a comprehensive view of UK companies, including their registration details, financial information, ownership, management, and recent filings for up to the 31st December 2023. The data has been meticulously processed using dbt (Data Build Tool) scripts to ensure accuracy and relevance.

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Contents

The dataset comprises the following tables:

1. companies
2. companies_sic_codes
3. filings
4. officers_and_owners

Below is a detailed description of each table.

1. companies

Description: Contains detailed information about companies registered in the UK up to January 1, 2024.

Columns:

• company_number: Unique identifier for each company.
• company_type: Type of company (e.g., private limited, public limited).
• office_address: Registered office address.
• incorporation_date: Date of company incorporation.
• jurisdiction: Legal jurisdiction of the company.
• company_status: Current status (e.g., active, dissolved).
• account_type: Type of accounts filed.
• company_name: Official name of the company.
• sic_codes: Standard Industrial Classification codes.
• date_of_cessation: Date when the company ceased operations (if applicable).
• next_accounts_overdue: Indicator if the next accounts are overdue.
• confirmation_statement_overdue: Indicator if the confirmation statement is overdue.
• owners: Number of registered owners (persons with significant control).
• officers: Number of officers (directors, secretaries) associated with the company.
• average_number_employees_during_period: Average number of employees during the last accounting period.
• current_assets: Current assets as per the last accounts.
• last_accounts_period_end: End date of the last accounting period.
• company_url: Where you can check the up-to-date company information. Free registration is required.

Data Generation Process:

• Aggregated counts of owners and officers from the ch_psc and ch_officers tables.
• Joined with the ch_accounts table to include financial information.
• Filtered to include companies incorporated on or before January 1, 2024.

2. companies_sic_codes

Description: Provides detailed SIC (Standard Industrial Classification) codes for each company.

Columns:

• company_number: Company identifier.
• sic_code: SIC code assigned to the company.
• sic_description: Description of the SIC code.
• sic_section: Section of the SIC code.
• sic_division: Division of the SIC code.
• company_url: Where you can check the up-to-date company information. Free registration is required.

Data Generation Process:

• Joined ch_companies_sic_codes with the sic_codes table to enrich SIC code information.

3. filings

Description: Lists up to the five most recent filings for each company as of January 1, 2024.

Columns:

• All relevant filing information excluding transaction_id.
• company_number: Company identifier.
• date: Date of the filing.

Data Generation Process:

• Selected the latest filings from the ch_filings table.
• Applied a window function to rank filings by date for each company.
• Limited to the top five filings per company.

4. officers_and_owners

Description: Details up to five most recent officers and owners for each company, including their roles and personal information.

Columns:

• company_number: Company identifier.
• name: Full name of the officer or owner.
• kind: Type of person (individual or corporate entity).
• officer_role: Role within the company.
• occupation: Occupation of the individual.
• date: Date of appointment or notification.
• is_owner: Boolean indicating if the person is an owner.
• country_of_residence: Country where the individual resides.
• nationality: Nationality of the individual.
• company_country: Country of the company (for corporate persons).
• person_id: Unique identifier for the person.
• person_url: Where you can check the up-to-date company information. Free registration is required.

Data Generation Process:

• Combined data from ch_officers and ch_psc tables.
• Applied filters to include active officers and owners as of January 1, 2024.
• Used a window function to limit to the top five entries per company.

Segments Included:

• Companies
• Owners and Officers
• Filings

Data Generation Process:

• Aggregated counts and latest record dates from respective tables.

Data Sources

• Companies House Data: Official UK government register of UK companies.
• SIC Codes: Standard classification codes for industries.

Data Processing Details

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Free monthly CSV files showing all newly incorporated, reinstated, and dissolved UK companies. Updated monthly with official Companies House data.

The 20,000+ registered companies with a registered address in Glasgow. The information is extracted from Companies House. It includes the company name, number, category (private limited, partnership), registered address, postcode, industry (SIC code), status (ex: active or liquidation), incorporation date... It is likely that some companies may just lie off Glasgow City Council's boundary. If you find a problem in the data, you can check the source either in the full UK list or by looking up a company or let us know. The data dictionary supplied by Companies House can be viewed here. There is also a data dictionary with field names and meanings contained in the resources. This dataset does not imply: - a partnership with Companies House - an endorsement by Companies House - a product approval by Companies House Licence: None glasgow-post-codes-py.txt - https://dataservices.open.glasgow.gov.uk/Download/Organisation/cc57ac4b-12d5-43b1-ad25-434638eec18c/Dataset/3093e34f-6dcb-4980-840b-965421c1b091/File/c2634107-bd43-4537-adb8-9046aeed844e/Version/c8fde78e-5396-4293-ac35-6f6c96a5d642

Numbers of enterprises and local units produced from a snapshot of the Inter-Departmental Business Register (IDBR) taken on 14 March 2025.

Dataset

This dataset was created by S Nath

Released under CC0: Public Domain

Contents

Context:

The People with significant control (PSC) snapshot is a data snapshot containing the full list of PSC's provided to Companies House. The Prime Minister first put corporate transparency on the international agenda when he chaired the G8 summit in Lough Erne and secured commitment to action, the commitment to enhance corporate transparency in the UK was reaffirmed at London’s International Anti-Corruption Summit in May 2016. Since then the EU and G20 countries have also agreed to act. The UK is the first country in the G20 to create a public register of this kind.

The UK has high standards of business behaviour and corporate governance. The overwhelming majority of UK companies contribute productively to the UK economy, abide by the law and make a valuable contribution to society. But there are exceptions. Some of the features of the company structure which make it good for business also make it attractive to criminals. Companies can be misused to facilitate a range of criminal activities - from money laundering to tax evasion, corruption to terrorist financing. Sometimes those individuals running companies will not conduct themselves in accordance with the high standards we expect in the UK, posing a risk to other companies and consumers alike.

Information about the ownership and control of UK corporate entities will bring benefits for law enforcement, business, civil society and citizens. By making this information publicly available, free of charge, the government is setting a standard that we are persuading other countries to follow.

Content:

A person of significant control is someone that holds more than 25% of shares or voting rights in a company, has the right to appoint or remove the majority of the board of directors or otherwise exercises significant influence or control. This is a snapshot of data in zipped JSON form, as of Aug 23 2017. Daily updated snapshots and streaming API details can be found here. The People with Significant Control (PSC) register includes information about the individuals who own or control companies including their name, month and year of birth, nationality, and details of their interest in the company. From 30 June 2016, UK companies (except listed companies) and limited liability partnerships (LLPs) need to declare this information when issuing their annual confirmation statement to Companies House.

Acknowledgements:

Guidance here. The data is collected by UK government.

Inspiration:

• Who owns the most businesses? In certain areas?
• Any weird looking situations where ownership might be obscured?

Number of VAT-registered businesses recorded. "Enterprise Directorate: Business Start-ups and Closures: VAT Registrations and De-registrations" Please note that there will be no further releases of this publication. The Office for National Statistics has released a new National Statistics series on business births, deaths and survival rates named ‘Business Demography’. Business Demography is now the only official source of information on business start-ups and closures. Source: Business Registers Unit (BRU) Publisher: Business Registers Unit (BRU) Geographies: Local Authority District (LAD), County/Unitary Authority, Government Office Region (GOR), National Geographic coverage: Great Britain Time coverage: 1994 to 2008 Type of data: Administrative data

The Free Company Data Product is a downloadable data snapshot containing basic company data of live companies on the register.

The latest snapshot will be updated within 5 working days of the previous month end.

A reference dataset listing UK company types and their abbreviations—including PLC, Ltd, CLG, ULL, LLP, LP, SE, RC—highlighting their legal structure, liability frameworks, and filing obligations.

This dataset provides details of all UK incorporated companies with equity listed on the London Stock Exchange as at 30 June 2020. Names, market capitalisation, market admitted to and date of admission were taken from LSE data. This data was then cross referenced against the UK Companies House register (https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/) to provide each such company with its registered number and jurisdiction of incorporation. All companies were then cross-referenced against the Association of Investment Companies website (https://www.theaic.co.uk/aic/find-compare-investment-companies). All those not listed on the AIC's website were then examined to identify if any evidence could be identified that their headquarters were outside their jurisdictions of incorporation, with any such jurisdiction being noted.

Weekly data showing the number of Companies House incorporations, voluntary dissolutions accepted, and companies placed into compulsory dissolution in the UK. These are official statistics in development. Source: Companies House.

🏢 UK Visa Sponsorship Companies (2025)

Context

The UK maintains an official list of organizations licensed to sponsor foreign workers under visa categories such as Skilled Worker, Temporary Worker, and Global Business Mobility. This dataset provides a cleaned, structured version of those records for research, analysis, and career-related projects.

Content

The dataset contains a list of UK companies legally authorized to issue visa sponsorships. Data was collected through a Python web-scraping process from a publicly accessible UK company listing website.

Columns

Acknowledgements

The dataset was generated by dbrnjd using Python web scraping from publicly available data on a UK company website. No private or personal data has been included. Original data source: publicly accessible list of licensed UK visa sponsors.

Inspiration

• Identify UK companies willing to sponsor international workers
• Analyze visa sponsorship trends by region or sector
• Build visualization dashboards for immigration research
• Develop machine-learning models to predict sponsor behavior or demand

Limitations

• Data reflects availability at the time of scraping and may not include future changes.
• Sponsorship eligibility or license status can change; always verify through official government or company sources.

License

CC BY 4.0 (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International) You may use, share, and adapt this dataset with proper attribution. Read the license →

Citation

dbrnjd (2025). UK Visa Sponsorship Companies Dataset. Kaggle. Retrieved from [https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/omiddabirinejad/uk-visa-sponsorship-companies-list/]

In 2025, there were approximately 5.7 million private businesses operating in the United Kingdom, an increase when compared with the previous year, but down from a peak of 5.98 million businesses reported in 2020. There has been a net increase of around 2.2 million business enterprises since 2000, when there were 3.47 million. During the provided time period, the largest annual rise in the number of businesses occurred between 2013 and 2014, which saw a net increase of approximately 340,000 private enterprises. Employment in the UK Of the almost 34 million people employed in the UK in 2025 almost 28 million are employed in the private sector, highlighting their key role in the UK economy. Additionally, a significant share of the UK workforce are employed by around 4,000 large companies which employ over 500 people. In 2024, large companies employed over 9.65 million people, despite only composing a fraction of the total number of UK private enterprises. During the same time period, the UK public sector employed around 6.1million people, approximately 17.9 percent of the workforce. Retail and wholesale dominate Over 4.9 million people were employed in retail and wholesale in the UK in 2024, the most of any sector. After the retail sector, administrative, and support service businesses were the next biggest employer, at just over 3.09 million people. Retail and wholesale enterprises were also responsible for the highest combined turnover of UK businesses, at more than 1.8 trillion British pounds. The sector with the most enterprises, was the construction sector with over 870,000 enterprises belonging to this industry in 2024.

The Business Register and Employment Survey publishes employee and employment estimates at detailed geographical and industrial levels. It is regarded as the definitive source of official government employee statistics by industry. These maps allow a visually more meaningful comparison of employee levels by Broad industrial Group over time.

Business births and deaths from the Inter-Departmental Business Register with high-level breakdowns by industry and region. Quarterly official statistics in development.