Data Science Internship Programmes at Sky Early Careers

Data Science is at the heart of decision making and customer treatments in Sky. We provide analytics to inform customer growth strategies, create tooling to drive personalised customer treatments and champion test and learn through experimentation.

Data Science

Start date: 1st July 2025

£25,650 per annum pro rata|8 weeks

About this programme

You’ll learn from the best in industry get support in bringing your ideas to life. Impress us, and we may well offer you a full-time position on a graduate programme once you graduate.

What you’ll be doing

On our Data Science internship, you’ll have exposure across the business as you work with our stakeholders to help drive decision making using the power of data and insights. You’ll learn analytical techniques and use cutting edge predictive algorithms to deliver valuable insight to the business. You could be helping to build our next data product, predicting future customer behaviour, or unlocking the value of our content.

You’ll get exposure to one of our Data Science teams in Sky Data:

Data Science & Analytics – Consumer – work closely with the commercial teams, building data science models and data products, helping to inform and drive strategic decisions.
Data Science & Analytics – Content - work with our viewing data to build personalised customer experiences and help them to find more of what they love to watch.
Data Science & Analytics – Product & Operations – work with the product teams to build new data tools and help to improve the effectiveness and performance of the products our customers use everyday.

What we’re looking for

You're a graduate from any degree discipline, or soon will be. You’re likely to have studied maths, statistics, computer science, economics, physics or be able to demonstrate your understanding of the use of data through personal or university projects. We’re interested in your passion for data and the drive and ambition you can bring to the team.

Other skills you may have include:

Logical, end to end thinker
An enthusiastic problem-solver, with numerical, presentation and IT skills
Previous experience in data manipulation using Python, SQL, R, SAS, MATLAB
Machine learning - academic experience on Supervised/unsupervised learning, regression, decision trees, random forests, boosting
Enjoy task-focused delivery, a fast-paced environment and overcoming challenges
Collaborative, great with people and keen on following recent trends in the market

To be eligible for this role you are required to have the appropriate right to work in the UK by the start date of the programme. Please be aware Sky does not offer sponsorship for this programme.

Status

Application deadline: 24th November 2024 (Please be aware that our applications may close earlier than expected due to high volumes but will close no earlier than 13th October 2024).

Regis

Application journey

Prep Hub
This optional step will help you prepare for our application process — and you can access it before you’ve even applied.
Visit Prep Hub
Application
Time to submit your application on our system. We’ll be asking for your personal details, academic information and everything else that you think would be relevant such as work experience. That’s all there is to it.

If we need to make adjustments to make you feel more comfortable at any stage, please let us know when you apply — we’ll be in touch to discuss.
Digital Assessment
Once your application is in, we’ll ask you to complete our immersive digital assessments. They’re mostly situational questions and will also include a video interview.

We understand that you might want to utilise AI to support your preparation for taking the assessments – understanding Sky etc. But we ask that you complete the assessments themselves without the assistance of AI.
Assessment Centre
For the final assessment stage, we’ll invite you to our bespoke virtual assessment centre. You’ll get the opportunity to impress us and get a feel for what it’s really like to work at Sky.

The day could include an individual interview, group discussion or individual exercise. We’ll give you plenty of notice and let you know how best to prepare for the day.
We'll be in touch
Once you’ve completed all the assessment steps, we’ll let you know when you can expect to hear back from us. Good luck!