Digital IT apprenticeships for your team
Build your business future through work-based training and shape the digital talent and innovation your business needs to thrive.
Why employ an apprentice?
Taking on apprentices is a highly practical and cost-effective way for you to develop and motivate your workforce. In addition to qualified employees, apprenticeships deliver many other far-reaching business benefits including lower recruitment costs, greater staff satisfaction and improved retention rates.
The digital IT apprenticeship standards are developed by employers for employers to support the very latest real-world digital strategies. Apprenticeship programmes last between 12 and 24 months and include both on and off-the-job training in occupations that are vital for success in today’s technology landscape. They also provide the added benefit of tailoring the training around your unique business requirements.
Whether it’s strengthening your infrastructure or managing business change, identifying cyber threats or driving marketing and sales, digital IT apprenticeships offer the core technical competencies that organisations need in the digital age, combined with the attitudes and behaviours that build a winning team.
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Digital apprenticeships from BCS
We’re the leading end-point assessment organisation dedicated to the IT profession and will work closely with you at every step in the apprentice’s journey, providing qualifications and end-point assessment you can be confident in.
By partnering with the professional body for IT, you set your apprentices on the defined route to trusted IT professional - supported by an exclusive learning package and robust end-point assessment, as well as BCS membership and professional registration for every successful candidate.
Choosing your end-point assessment
When it comes to assessing your apprentices, you’re in safe hands with BCS. We’re committed to delivering first-class end-point assessment for you and your apprentices so you can be 100% confident in their evaluation and the competencies they bring to your business.
Our expertly-trained team of full-time end-point assessors, and 80+ associate assessors, deliver on this commitment with pride and integrity. Since providing our first end-point assessment in 2017 we’ve assessed over 10,000 digital apprentices, drawing out the best from each one.
We work to ensure apprentices enjoy a seamless experience using the very latest in online assessment delivery software, with BCS membership and heavily-discounted access to the Pluralsight digital skills learning portal available to support their training and assessment performance.
“I am amazed at our apprentices and how dedicated and driven they are to succeed. It’s amazing to watch these great individuals juggling their day job and their learning - especially now they have their own challenges in lockdown. It's very humbling and I'm extremely proud of them."
Begin your apprenticeship journey
Choose the right apprenticeship for your business
We offer a comprehensive choice of digital IT apprenticeship standards covering a range of important digital roles.
Find a training provider near you
If you’ve already chosen your apprenticeship, contact an approved provider to get started.
Understand your role in end-point assessment
Find out more about assessment and how we support employers and apprentices throughout the process.
Guidance on the apprenticeship levy
Understand the apprenticeship levy and how it affects your organisation.
Championing your apprentices
At BCS, we believe apprenticeships should enjoy parity with every other career choice - here are some of the ways we’re helping to raise the profile of apprenticeships and digital apprentices across the industry:
We sponsor the Apprentice of the Year category at the annual UK IT Industry Awards
We are partnering with WorldSkillsUK on their Spotlight Talks: Inspiring Careers Excellence
Our BCS employer events bring the community together to share ideas, discuss challenges and drive the apprenticeship debate
At the National Apprenticeship Awards we sponsor the Digital Provider of the Year category.
What do employers say?
Don’t take our word for it, let these employers tell you about their apprenticeship journey and the business benefits they’re enjoying along the way.
