Graduate programmes
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Shape the future of our business by joining one of our graduate programmes.
Graduate rotational programmes
Graduate programmes
Create products used by millions, using cutting-edge tech. Work on our flagship projects – Sky Q, NOW TV, Digital Platforms, our global streaming platforms and Sky Mobile.
Software development graduate programme (Osterley)
Change the way customers interact with the NOW TV interface. Create software technology that influences the way they watch their favourite shows. Make an impact, contribute to our success and get all the support you need to do your best work.
What to expect
Join the experts behind Sky Mobile, NOW TV and Sky Q. Create products used by millions. Use cutting-edge technology. Whatever your project, you’ll be in the driver’s seat from day one, designing the software that steers us to success.
How you’ll grow
You’ll learn a lot in seven months. After just five weeks, you’ll be familiar with the major software engineering principles, Java development, test-driven development, continuous build and integration. Over the remaining six months, with our guidance, you’ll put your newly-acquired skills into practice on live projects, before moving into a delivery team.
What you could be working on
- Deliver and support the building of our software products
- Team up with software professionals to create high-quality, testable products designed to engage our customers
- Produce software through iteration using Agile delivery principles
Software development graduate programme (Brentwood)
Change the way customers interact with the NOW TV interface. Create software technology that influences the way they watch their favourite shows. Make an impact, contribute to our success and get all the support you need to do your best work.
What to expect
Join the experts behind Sky Mobile, NOW TV and Sky Q. Create products used by millions. Use cutting-edge technology. Whatever your project, you’ll be in the driver’s seat from day one, designing the software that steers us to success.
How you’ll grow
You’ll learn a lot in seven months. After just five weeks, you’ll be familiar with the major software engineering principles, Java development, test-driven development, continuous build and integration. Over the remaining six months, with our guidance, you’ll put your newly-acquired skills into practice on live projects, before moving into a delivery team.
What you could be working on
- Deliver and support the building of our software products
- Team up with software professionals to create high-quality, testable products designed to engage our customers
- Produce software through iteration using Agile delivery principles
Software development graduate programme (Leeds)
Change the way customers interact with the NOW TV interface. Create software technology that influences the way they watch their favourite shows. Make an impact, contribute to our success and get all the support you need to do your best work.
What to expect
Join the experts behind Sky Mobile, NOW TV and Sky Q. Create products used by millions. Use cutting-edge technology. Whatever your project, you’ll be in the driver’s seat from day one, designing the software that steers us to success.
How you’ll grow
You’ll learn a lot in seven months. After just five weeks, you’ll be familiar with the major software engineering principles, Java development, test-driven development, continuous build and integration. Over the remaining six months, with our guidance, you’ll put your newly-acquired skills into practice on live projects, before moving into a delivery team.
What you could be working on
- Deliver and support the building of our software products
- Team up with software professionals to create high-quality, testable products designed to engage our customers
- Produce software through iteration using Agile delivery principles
DevOps graduate programme (Osterley)
Hit the ground running on this accelerated learning programme. Take a hands-on approach using agile methodologies. Work alongside experts in our DevOps team and make sure we stay ahead of the game.
What to expect
Join the teams that built Sky Mobile, NOW TV and Sky Q. Create products used by millions. Take the lead on challenging and exciting projects. With the support of a leading software delivery team, create high-quality, testable products designed to bring customers more of what they love.
How you’ll grow
You’ll learn a lot in seven months. Spend your first four weeks learning what it takes to be a DevOps Engineer. Over the remaining six months, with our guidance, you’ll put your newly-acquired skills into practice on live projects.
Once you’ve completed the programme, you’ll move into a delivery team, which provides a variety of support and deployment activities to our Development, Quality Assurance and Release Management teams.
Here you’ll help reduce costs, improve products, enhance service availability, tighten security and boost our growth. Top quality is always a priority as you deliver effective, innovative software.
What you could be working on
- Provide the environments our developers will use to create our software products
- Be involved in scaling applications and products when popularity increases or where user demands peak expectations.
- Ensure deployed products remain available and diagnose issues when they occur.
- Work in an iterative way using Agile delivery principles
DevOps graduate programme (Brentwood)
Hit the ground running on this accelerated learning programme. Take a hands-on approach using agile methodologies. Work alongside experts in our DevOps team and make sure we stay ahead of the game.
What to expect
Join the teams that built Sky Mobile, NOW TV and Sky Q. Create products used by millions. Take the lead on challenging and exciting projects. With the support of a leading software delivery team, create high-quality, testable products designed to bring customers more of what they love.
How you’ll grow
You’ll learn a lot in seven months. Spend your first four weeks learning what it takes to be a DevOps Engineer. Over the remaining six months, with our guidance, you’ll put your newly-acquired skills into practice on live projects.
Once you’ve completed the programme, you’ll move into a delivery team, which provides a variety of support and deployment activities to our Development, Quality Assurance and Release Management teams.
Here you’ll help reduce costs, improve products, enhance service availability, tighten security and boost our growth. Top quality is always a priority as you deliver effective, innovative software.
What you could be working on
- Provide the environments our developers will use to create our software products
- Be involved in scaling applications and products when popularity increases or where user demands peak expectations.
- Ensure deployed products remain available and diagnose issues when they occur.
- Work in an iterative way using Agile delivery principles
DevOps graduate programme (Leeds)
Hit the ground running on this accelerated learning programme. Take a hands-on approach using agile methodologies. Work alongside experts in our DevOps team and make sure we stay ahead of the game.
What to expect
Join the teams that built Sky Mobile, NOW TV and Sky Q. Create products used by millions. Take the lead on challenging and exciting projects. With the support of a leading software delivery team, create high-quality, testable products designed to bring customers more of what they love.
How you’ll grow
You’ll learn a lot in seven months. Spend your first four weeks learning what it takes to be a DevOps Engineer. Over the remaining six months, with our guidance, you’ll put your newly-acquired skills into practice on live projects.
Once you’ve completed the programme, you’ll move into a delivery team, which provides a variety of support and deployment activities to our Development, Quality Assurance and Release Management teams.
Here you’ll help reduce costs, improve products, enhance service availability, tighten security and boost our growth. Top quality is always a priority as you deliver effective, innovative software.
What you could be working on
- Provide the environments our developers will use to create our software products
- Be involved in scaling applications and products when popularity increases or where user demands peak expectations.
- Ensure deployed products remain available and diagnose issues when they occur.
- Work in an iterative way using Agile delivery principles
Automated testing graduate programme (Osterley)
Our passion? Connecting our customers to more of what they love. To do this we need to make sure we’re constantly delivering quality service and products. Make an impact by producing test coverage and ensuring software is delivered to the highest standard.
What to expect
Join the teams that built Sky Mobile, NOW TV and Sky Q. Create products used by millions. Use cutting-edge tech. Deliver top-quality software. Learn the fundamentals of software engineering, testing and gain an understanding of DevOps.
How you’ll grow
You’ll learn a lot in seven months. After five weeks, you’ll be familiar with major software engineering and testing principles, as well as DevOps and test-driven development. Master the fundamentals of performance and API, mobile and hardware testing. And the security principles that underpin all our work. Over the remaining six months, with our guidance, you’ll put your newly-acquired skills into practice on current projects before moving into a delivery team.
What you could be working on
- Identify and negotiate business objectives to deliver quality, customer-focused testing solutions
- Collaborate with developers to maintain and improve our test suites
- Stay up to date on the status of tests, offering solutions as needed
- Help us deliver continuous, quality code that matches business requirements
Automated testing graduate programme (Brentwood)
Our passion? Connecting our customers to more of what they love. To do this we need to make sure we’re constantly delivering quality service and products. Make an impact by producing test coverage and ensuring software is delivered to the highest standard.
What to expect
Join the teams that built Sky Mobile, NOW TV and Sky Q. Create products used by millions. Use cutting-edge tech. Deliver top-quality software. Learn the fundamentals of software engineering, testing and gain an understanding of DevOps.
How you’ll grow
You’ll learn a lot in seven months. After five weeks, you’ll be familiar with major software engineering and testing principles, as well as DevOps and test-driven development. Master the fundamentals of performance and API, mobile and hardware testing. And the security principles that underpin all our work. Over the remaining six months, with our guidance, you’ll put your newly-acquired skills into practice on current projects before moving into a delivery team.
What you could be working on
- Identify and negotiate business objectives to deliver quality, customer-focused testing solutions
- Collaborate with developers to maintain and improve our test suites
- Stay up to date on the status of tests, offering solutions as needed
- Help us deliver continuous, quality code that matches business requirements
Automated testing graduate programme (Leeds)
Our passion? Connecting our customers to more of what they love. To do this we need to make sure we’re constantly delivering quality service and products. Make an impact by producing test coverage and ensuring software is delivered to the highest standard.
What to expect
Join the teams that built Sky Mobile, NOW TV and Sky Q. Create products used by millions. Use cutting-edge tech. Deliver top-quality software. Learn the fundamentals of software engineering, testing and gain an understanding of DevOps.
How you’ll grow
You’ll learn a lot in seven months. After five weeks, you’ll be familiar with major software engineering and testing principles, as well as DevOps and test-driven development. Master the fundamentals of performance and API, mobile and hardware testing. And the security principles that underpin all our work. Over the remaining six months, with our guidance, you’ll put your newly-acquired skills into practice on current projects before moving into a delivery team.
What you could be working on
- Identify and negotiate business objectives to deliver quality, customer-focused testing solutions
- Collaborate with developers to maintain and improve our test suites
- Stay up to date on the status of tests, offering solutions as needed
- Help us deliver continuous, quality code that matches business requirements
Be part of innovative projects and keep Sky safe from cyber security threats
Cyber security graduate programme (Osterley)
Applications for our 2020 programme are now closed
Keep Sky safe from cyber-attack. Educate staff on security threat and vulnerability. Advise on new security threats. Get involved in supporting and guiding projects. All so we can continue to deliver products free from threat exposure.
What to expect
As part of our Group Technology Security team, you’ll gain experience working across multiple lifecycle stages of Cyber Security here at Sky. You’ll then get the opportunity to take on a more focused role, whether that’s simulating an attack on our computers or designing system architecture.
How you’ll grow
Take part in a five-week induction before getting under the skin of our cyber security operation. You’ll cover analysis, project management and specialist cyber security training. Throughout the two year programme, you’ll do up to four rotations, before specialising, with roles ranging from penetration testing to security project management. ,
What you could be working on
- Business support and security program/project management
- Security design and architecture
- Information security operations
- Assurance, penetration testing and code review
Number crunching your thing? Our Finance team is at the core of everything we do. Produce financial and operational reports. Complete financial analyses for product launches. Help with making investment decisions. This programme will give our graduates hands-on experience of becoming a Management Accountant in a fast-paced, exciting business.
Finance graduate programme (Osterley) - February 2020
Applications for our 2020 programme are now closed
Whizz with numbers? Join our finance team and be right at the heart of all the action. Dive right in to exciting projects and learn on the job while studying for your CIMA (Chartered Institute of Management Accountants) qualification.
What to expect
Find out first-hand what it’s like to be an Accountant for a leading entertainment brand. Commercial Finance Influences key business decisions. Support new product launches. Advise on whether we should invest in a new TV show or a game-changing piece of technology. Manage company-wide budgets and gain experience in our Corporate Finance team. And enjoy a collaborative, caring culture that helps us achieve brilliant things.
How you’ll grow
You’ll go on three year-long placements, spanning the entire business. From content and channels, to product development and technology, sales and strategy. Spend time in Livingston HQ in Scotland. And if you fancy, work in our Munich and Milan offices. Plus, you’ll be financially supported to study for your CIMA qualification while gaining relevant experience – meaning that you’ll be able to join the world’s largest and leading professional body of Management Accountants.
What you could be working on
Through your business rotations, you’ll learn how to set budgets and track against them, develop business cases to support projects and investment decisions, analyse data to provide key insight, and collaborate with teams across the business to meet and exceed our business targets.
Finance graduate programme (Osterley) - August 2020
Applications for our 2020 programme are now closed
Whizz with numbers? Join our finance team and be right at the heart of all the action. Dive right in to exciting projects and learn on the job while studying for your CIMA (Chartered Institute of Management Accountants) qualification.
What to expect
Find out first-hand what it’s like to be an Accountant for a leading entertainment brand. Commercial Finance Influences key business decisions. Support new product launches. Advise on whether we should invest in a new TV show or a game-changing piece of technology. Manage company-wide budgets and gain experience in our Corporate Finance team. And enjoy a collaborative, caring culture that helps us achieve brilliant things.
How you’ll grow
You’ll go on three year-long placements, spanning the entire business. From content and channels, to product development and technology, sales and strategy. Spend time in Livingston HQ in Scotland. And if you fancy, work in our Munich and Milan offices. Plus, you’ll be financially supported to study for your CIMA qualification while gaining relevant experience – meaning that you’ll be able to join the world’s largest and leading professional body of Management Accountants.
What you could be working on
Through your business rotations, you’ll learn how to set budgets and track against them, develop business cases to support projects and investment decisions, analyse data to provide key insight, and collaborate with teams across the business to meet and exceed our business targets.
Finance graduate programme (Livingston)
Applications for our 2020 programme are now closed
Whizz with numbers? Join our finance team and be right at the heart of all the action. Dive right in to exciting projects and learn on the job while studying for your CIMA (Chartered Institute of Management Accountants) qualification.
What to expect
Find out how accounts payable and receivable functions work. Prepare month-end accounts. Set and track budgets. Make a case for investment decisions. Analyse data. Work with teams across the business to meet and exceed our targets.
How you’ll grow
Boost your accounting skills with three exciting years in various cross market finance functions. Enjoy full support to study for your CIMA qualification, giving you membership to the world’s leading professional body of management accountants. And if you fancy swapping Livingston for Munich or Milan, you can: our European offices welcome finance graduates.
What you could be working on
Our Finance team is rooted at the core of what we do, meaning you’ll get hands-on experience of being an Accountant in business. You’ll gain experience in producing the financial and operational reporting that will enable us to continue growing every year and, in addition, you’ll complete analysis and partner the business supporting our customer service function.
Join the team responsible for our award-winning customer service. Drive improvements in customer experience. Dive into exciting projects. Working with our Customer Operations, Product, Marketing and IT teams, you’ll learn how Change Delivery supports our strategic goals, and how Business Analysts help get things done.
Business analysis graduate programme (Osterley)
Applications for our 2020 programme are now closed
Work on fast-paced projects that span our entire business. Lead on projects working with Sky, NOW TV or NBCU and help get top quality products and services in front of our customers.
What to expect
On this two-year programme, you’ll join the team responsible for our award-winning customer service. Drive improvements in customer experience. Dive into exciting projects. Working with our Customer Operations, Product, Marketing and IT teams, you’ll learn how Change Delivery supports our strategic goals, and how Business Analysts help get things done.
How you’ll grow
For the first six months, you’ll team up with one of our experienced Business Analysts to help you get started. Once you’ve got your feet under the table, we’ll give you the freedom to do your best work, your way.
What you could be working on
- Support our training and communications teams, as well as retail advisors, in rolling out changes
- Define and deliver new products and services
- Develop a streamlined customer experience
- Drive changes to the way we do things
Graduates on this programme are integral to our customer experience. Deliver huge projects that change the game.
You’ll work with the Business analyst team supporting the customer-facing side of Sky, or in Project management delivering top-quality products and services.
Change delivery graduate programme (Livingston)
Applications for our 2020 programme are now closed
Our Change Delivery teams support the customer-facing side of our business. Deliver ‘best in class’ products and services. Work alongside a wide range of stakeholders across the business. Help grow our business and keep our customers coming back for more.
What to expect
On this two-year programme, you have the option of choosing between one of two paths; business analysis or project management
- As a Business Analyst, you’ll focus on finding innovative solutions, designing an ideal customer experience and working with stakeholders from across the business to define and manage business requirements for change.
- As a Project Manager, you’ll successfully deliver change by leading and delivering through the project team, making sure everything runs to schedule, to the agreed budget and to the commercial and business objectives.
How you’ll grow
Dive into exciting projects. Work with people from Customer Operations, Product and Marketing and IT. Learn how Change Delivery supports our strategic goals. After two years, you’ll join the team as a fully trained Business Analyst or Project Manager.
What you could be working on
As a Business Analyst
- Define and deliver new products and services
- Develop a streamlined customer experience
- Drive changes to the way we do things
- Support our training and communications teams, as well as retail advisors, in rolling out changes
As a Project Manager
- Keep track of your project’s progress
- Update relevant people in the business
- Define the business need for your project and help others understand it, too
- Manage and track risks, working with other teams to reduce impacts on timeline and budget
- Help us launch new products and services