The UK graduate market, sorted your way.
Explore every UK graduate scheme across 14 sectors — search it, browse by industry, get matched to your CV, and rehearse for the interview.
Fourteen industries. One map.
Hover a sector to size up the market at a glance — the pay, the openings, the biggest employers — then dive into the full guide.
Law works differently — so we don’t list it.
Becoming a solicitor or barrister isn’t a graduate scheme. You apply for a training contract or pupillage up to two years ahead, usually after a vacation scheme or mini-pupillage, and firms recruit on a calendar that has almost nothing in common with the schemes on this site.
Rather than list law badly alongside everything else, we’ve left it out. Two sites do it far better than we could — use them instead.
Grad schemes aren’t for everyone — but they do a few things really well.
Not everyone needs a two-year rotational programme, and plenty of great careers start elsewhere. That said, when a scheme fits, the trade-offs can be genuinely worth it. Here’s what you actually get.
Structure when you need it most
A defined 18–30 month programme with rotations, milestones and mentors takes the guesswork out of your first job. You’ll know what you’re doing in six months, and what’s expected in eighteen.
A proper training budget
Study leave, exam fees and funded professional qualifications — ACA, CFA, PMI, chartership — the kind of things that would cost thousands and years of evenings if you funded them yourself.
Real rotation, real exposure
Two, three, sometimes four different teams in your first stint. You’ll finish knowing what you like, what you don’t, and where in the business you actually want to be.
A cohort going through it with you
20, 50, sometimes 200 people starting on the same day. It’s the closest thing to freshers’ week you’ll get again — and those relationships often outlast the scheme itself.
A brand that opens doors
Fair or not, “Deloitte graduate scheme” or “Rolls-Royce graduate” carries weight for the rest of your career. It’s a shortcut past a lot of gatekeepers, even years later.
Salary that keeps pace
Most schemes have a locked-in second-year uplift and often a third bump on completion. Graduates on schemes typically out-earn peers who took ad-hoc roles by year three.
Who they’re not for. If you already know exactly what you want to build, you thrive in flatter, smaller teams, or you’d rather move faster than a corporate structure allows — a startup, a specialist boutique or self-employment can genuinely beat a scheme. There’s no shame in either path; the point is to choose deliberately.
Three tools to find, prepare and stand out.
The core of Find me a Grad Scheme is free — find the schemes that fit you, prep for the tests employers set, and pick the courses that strengthen your CV.
Scheme finder
Tell us your degree and where you want to be — or paste your CV — and we rank the schemes that fit you, with a reason for every match.
Find my match →Test prep
Practise the aptitude tests employers actually use — numerical, verbal, logical and more — with interactive sample questions for each.
Start practising →CV Boost
Seventy-two courses and certifications that genuinely strengthen a graduate CV — with our honest take, the cost and a direct link for each.
Boost your CV →Additional services.
Some things take real time and judgement. When you want a hand, these paid services go further — a curated shortlist, a personal site, or a brief built for one employer.
Weekly scheme picks
Tell us your criteria once and every Monday we send a short, curated shortlist worth applying to — deadlines flagged, an honest take on each.
See details →CV → personal website
Upload your CV and we build you a polished, interactive personal site — on-brand for your sector and shared as a link, not a PDF.
See details →Company prep pack
Pick the employer you want most and we build everything specific to applying there — their process, their questions, their numbers.
See details →Assessment day pack
Got an assessment centre booked? Get ready for every exercise on the day — group tasks, case study, presentation and a pre-day checklist.
See details →All four are arranged over email — there’s no checkout and no account to make. While we’re in test mode they cost nothing. Tell us what you need at joespeller123@gmail.com and you’ll get a reply within 48 hours.
I built Find me a Grad Scheme because I wish it had existed when I was applying.
Applying for graduate schemes is genuinely confusing, scattered and stressful, and I don’t think it needs to be. This started as a personal project — collating every scheme I could find, writing an honest take on each one — and grew from there.
The free tools are free because I think every graduate deserves them, regardless of background or budget. The paid services exist because some things — building a proper personal site, curating a weekly shortlist, putting together a proper employer brief — take real time and judgement, and I’d rather be honest about that than dress it up. If something here is wrong, missing or could be better, I genuinely want to know.