The register
Ricardo-AEA Limited, Harwell, Oxfordshire, holds a Home Office sponsor licence on the Skilled Worker route, and has been on the register since at least 2026. The register records its rating as Worker (A rating).
Companies House lists it as Ricardo-aea Limited, number 08229264, incorporated 2012: 14 years of filings behind the name. The registered office is at Wsp House, 70 Chancery Lane, London, WC2A 1AF, WC2A 1AF. Its filed activity puts it in it, software and media. It has traded under other names before, including Ricardo Shoreham Ltd.
Holding a licence is the expensive, slow part done. For Ricardo-AEA Limited the question each time is only whether the role and the pay fit the current rules, and that is checked per vacancy.