AI Apprenticeships

An AI apprenticeship programme is a course designed to kickstart a career in the emerging world of AI. With new jobs in AI being created all the time, our AI apprenticeships are designed to prepare learners for the AI-centric future of the workplace, as well as helping businesses to bring in new talent with the latest AI skills. 

According to PWC, there is a 56% wage premium for AI skills when comparing workers in the same job with and without AI skills. This is why our AI apprenticeship programmes, and all QA apprenticeship courses, come with Microsoft Copilot training as standard. 

AI apprenticeship programmes combine virtual learning, with QA experts in AI, with hands-on work experience, ensuring all of our apprentices are workplace ready. 

The length of our apprenticeship courses vary by programme. The Digital and AI Support Level 3 programme takes around 16 months to complete, whilst the more advanced Level 7 Data and AI Specialist programme takes around 21 months. 

View the individual programme pages or get in touch with our team of experts if you have any questions or want to know more about our courses. 

Businesses around the world are grappling with the challenge of adopting AI technology and they need the right talent to help deliver that change.

Demand for AI Skills has grown 21% annually since 2019, but fully equipped talent is still difficult to come by.

Whether it’s extracting big data, developing AI solutions or adhering to AI regulations and best practice, having professionals who can leverage AI is only going to become more critical in the future.

Apprenticeship programmes can help to fill these gaps, with organisations able to scale up their AI talent acquisition with work-ready professionals who already possess important AI skills. 

AI roles are becoming increasingly important across a range of industries. From tracking and assessment in finance, to analysis and predictive modelling in healthcare and automation in manufacturing, AI technology is transforming all leading industries and changing the requirements of those that work in those industries.

New roles and career paths in AI are emerging all the time. It is also changing existing job roles, removing some responsibilities that can be done by AI, and adding others that can be empowered by AI tools and technology.

An AI apprenticeship can support a career in Data Science, working with big data to train machine and large language models. It can also lead to a career as a Machine Learning Engineer, working with machine learning models in live environments.

Other emerging roles include that of an AI engineer, AI product manager and AI research scientist, and there are sure to be more roles that emerge as new AI tech evolves.

There are a range of skills you can develop as an AI apprentice. It is likely to include training in a programming language, such as Python or R, as well as a fundamental understanding of data science. An AI apprentice could also work closely with cloud computing programs, like AWS, Microsoft Azure, GCP and Databricks.

AI apprentices will also develop the soft skills they need to translate their ideas and recommendations into actionable business change. The skills learnt as an AI apprentice could be crucial in helping an organisation evolve and compete in the AI revolution.

QA are a leading provider of AI training and upskilling, including market-leading AI apprenticeship programmes. We are an experienced apprenticeship training provider, with experience of pairing talent with roles in leading organisations. 

We offer flexible learning programmes, which includes a mix of workplace experience, online learning through our platform and instructor-led courses through our team of AI experts.