Recruit or Train an Apprentice
Attract new candidates with the tech skills you need or upskill your existing workforce with in-demand expertise.
Interested in Becoming an Apprentice?
Kickstart your tech career and earn as you learn, whether you’re a school leaver or an employee looking to upskill or reskill.
Apprenticeships in Scotland
Discover opportunities in Scotland, whether you’re an employer needing to develop your tech skills, or an individual looking to apply.
Why Apprenticeships?
With an estimated 100,000 new opportunities emerging in the UK tech industry every month, including jobs that didn't exist five years ago in areas such as data and AI, there is both huge potential and a growing gap between skills required and talent available. That’s where QA apprenticeships come in.
Our apprenticeships deliver on-the-job training in valuable tech skills, allowing companies to recruit in-demand talent or boost employees’ skills, and giving apprentices the opportunity to earn while they learn, on programmes that seamlessly transition into the workplace.
How Apprenticeships Work
What's Involved
An apprenticeship is a modern, hands-on way to train for an exciting new career in tech. Apprentices are paid, receive employee benefits and spend 80% of their time in the workplace. The rest of their time is spent learning via QA's award-winning digital delivery model, allowing them to develop skills at their own pace and earn an industry recognised qualification.
On-Demand Support
Apprentices receive regular support throughout the programme, with one-to-one coaching sessions every six weeks to help with learning, goal setting and feedback. At the end of the programme, apprentices take an End Point Assessment to prove they are ready to apply their new skills in the workplace.
How They're Funded
Apprenticeship training is funded by the UK Government apprenticeship levy. Organisations can use the levy fund to pay for apprenticeship programmes within their own business.
Find out more about the apprenticeship levy and how you can benefit
How QA Can Help
QA offer tech apprenticeship programmes in a range of sought-after specialisms, organised into levels equivalent to qualifications from GCSE to degree level.
View apprenticeships by level:
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Level 3
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Level 4
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Level 4/5/6 (Degree)
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Level 7 (Masters)
View apprenticeships by tech specialism:
Frontloaded Apprenticeships
Boost the digital expertise in your organisation faster with our frontloaded apprenticeships in data, devops or software, providing candidates ready for the job from day one.
Why QA?
We've transformed over 30,000 tech careers through our apprenticeships. Our apprentices benefit from more than 10 years experience in the EdTech sector and the largest specialist in-house instructor and coaching teams in the UK.
QA partners with the world's leading software vendors such as Microsoft, AWS and Salesforce to deliver our tech apprenticeships. These programmes result in qualifications that are highly valued in the tech sector by the world's most successful organisations.
As well as our big portfolio of England apprenticeships, we also offer Scotland apprenticeships, and degree apprenticeships for those learners wanting to take their skills to the next level.
30,000
careers launched or transformed
24-hour
turn-around for student submissions
3,500+
employers from various industries
Digital by Design
Our award-winning Digital by Design approach to blended learning helps learners develop further and faster whilst enabling managers to track progress via real-time dashboards.
Digital by Design delivers flexible digital learning and the opportunity to practice new skills in a safe environment before entering the workplace, all with easily accessible support. This allows all types of learners to take an approach which works for them and inspires the confidence to add immediate business value.
As a result, QA apprentices are more engaged, gain skills quicker and 97% of all DxD learners complete their training on time, or ahead of time.
Hear From Our Apprentices
An apprenticeship is a powerful tool to jump-start a career in tech. Listen to QA apprentices explain the positive impact that apprenticeships have had on their careers, and why you should get involved.
Georgia
Project Management Apprenticeship
Youness
Software Development Apprenticeship
Lawrie
Digital Support Officer Apprenticeship
‘My apprenticeship with QA has been completely life changing for me. I now stand as Head of Marketing for YARD direct. My development and progression was all down to the training and opportunities given to me by QA. Me as a person or in my career would never be as strong, dedicated and as hard working without the motivation of QA and for this I am forever grateful.’
Sarah
Project Management Apprenticeship at SP
‘When I left school I felt quite pressured to go to university, so I decided to do a radiography degree. Halfway through I decided the programme wasn’t for me and started working in retail. After working full-time for so long I dreaded the thought of returning to full-time education. My QA apprenticeship has provided me with the perfect balance between learning and working to achieve my career goals.’
Nodiya
Data & Analytics Apprenticeship at Natwest
‘Originally I was trying to get into med school but couldn’t garner enough funding. I had heard about apprenticeships in school before so I thought I should give that a try. Now, I’m getting paid to learn something I love to do and I really do feel I could become anything and that the sky’s the limit. I think apprenticeships are inclusive, flexible and challenging.’
We are committed to social mobility, diversity and inclusion
We’ve made it our mission to make careers in tech accessible and inclusive to all by delivering programmes like Teach the Nation to Code and helping organisations benefit from greater diversity in their tech teams.
We partner with public and private sector organisations across the UK to achieve our ambition to support individuals from diverse backgrounds realise their potential.
Hear From Businesses We Work With
"We are delighted that QA is joining Microsoft’s Get On 2021 campaign. As one of our UK Gold Learning Partners, QA brings to bear their long-standing pedigree in training, re-skilling and certifying thousands of Microsoft IT Professionals, developers and apprentices."
Simon Lambert – Chief Learning Officer, Microsoft UK
"The apprenticeship programme we’ve created with QA focuses on developing a converged skill set, meaning apprentices can quickly meet the diversity of the job. This makes a real difference to our talent pipeline... this journey will add huge value across the business for years to come."
Graham Webb - Vodafone’s Field Operations Manager
"Ergo partnered with QA to find the best candidates, confident in the knowledge that it would only suggest dedicated and talented individuals."
Tom Walton - Design Director
Interested In
Recruiting an Apprentice
Attract new candidates with the tech skills you need or upskill your existing workforce with in-demand expertise.
Becoming an Apprentice
Kickstart your tech career and earn as you learn, whether you’re a school leaver or an employee looking to upskill or reskill.
Apprenticeships in Scotland
Discover opportunities in Scotland, whether you’re an employer needing to develop your tech skills, or an individual looking to apply.