New: Biomedical, Research, and Academic Job Categories on Sponsored Jobs UK

A few weeks ago a biomedical scientist messaged me on Discord. He'd found the site, liked it, and then told me the thing no founder wants to hear: it had nothing for him. He searched for biomedical roles and got an empty page. He asked if I knew a better site for his field.

I checked, and he was right. Searching "biomedical" returned zero jobs. Same for "nurse", "doctor", and "lab technician". The sponsor register behind the site was full of NHS Trusts, universities, and biotech firms with live sponsor licences. The jobs feed just wasn't reaching them.

That gap is now closed. Three new category pages are live, backed by two new data sources.

Why the Gap Existed

The job scraper only knew how to read a handful of applicant tracking systems: Greenhouse, Ashby, Lever. Those cover tech companies and venture-backed startups well, and almost none of the biomedical world. NHS Trusts post on NHS Jobs and universities post on jobs.ac.uk, and neither of those was in the scraper's list, so an entire sector of sponsor-licensed employers was invisible to anyone searching the site.

The sponsor data was fine all along. Every one of those employers already sat in the Home Office register, and the jobs feed just pointed at the wrong places.

Two New Scrapers, Three New Pages

I built two new scrapers and three new landing pages.

The NHS Jobs scraper pulls sponsorship-verified roles straight from NHS Jobs: biomedical scientists, lab technicians, research nurses, and clinical research staff. It currently surfaces 47 roles across 34 NHS employers, most of them Foundation Trusts, from Barts Health and Cambridge University Hospitals to Imperial College Healthcare and Liverpool University Hospitals.

The jobs.ac.uk scraper covers UK universities and research institutions. Every role runs through a filter chain before it lands on the site: I parse the posting, normalise the employer name, match it against a fresh copy of the Home Office sponsor register pulled that same day, gate on a UK location, and apply a salary floor. Anything that fails a check gets dropped. That currently gives 182 roles across 60 universities and institutes, including Oxford, Cambridge, UCL, Imperial, Edinburgh, and specialist centres like the John Innes Centre and the Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.

On top of both feeds sit three category pages, each with an intro, a live list of verified roles, the top-hiring sponsors, an FAQ block, and structured data so Google can index them properly:

• Biomedical jobs with UK visa sponsorship
• Research jobs with UK visa sponsorship
• Academic jobs with UK visa sponsorship

Numbers You Can Check

The biomedical page went from nothing to 72 verified roles. A few weeks ago that search returned an empty page, which is what triggered the whole piece of work.

• Biomedical: 72 roles
• Research: 116 roles
• Academic: 105 roles

Across the whole site, the additions moved the totals from roughly 1,650 jobs and 123 companies to more than 1,800 jobs and 180 companies. All of those numbers are live, so you can open any of the three pages and count for yourself.

What Each Page Is For

The three categories overlap a little, so here's how I'd point you depending on what you actually do.

Biomedical

This is where the NHS and industry science roles land. If you're a biomedical scientist, a lab technician, a research nurse, or you're after a job in drug discovery or a stem cell lab, start here.

Research

This covers the research-track roles specifically: postdoctoral fellowships, research fellows, and research assistants. If your next move is a funded research post rather than a teaching one, this is your page.

Academic

This is the teaching and faculty track: lecturer, senior lecturer, professor, and teaching fellow posts across UK universities. Different career shape, different page.

Every role on all three pages sits at a licensed sponsor, checked against the register the site already tracks daily. If you want the wider picture of which visa route these roles fall under before you apply, the guide to UK work visa routes walks through the options.

What Comes After This

The obvious next step is a newsletter per category, so you can get new biomedical or academic roles by email instead of checking the page. I'm holding off on building that until I have four to six weeks of traffic data. I'd rather build email lists for the categories people are genuinely searching than spin up three lists and watch two of them sit empty.

If you're in one of these fields and something's still missing, tell me. The last time someone did, it turned into two scrapers and three pages. Messages like that are the most useful thing I get.