Researching The Times Top 100 Graduate Employers
manufacturer Jaguar Land Rover holds the record for being the fastest-moving employer in the Top 100 , after leaping more than seventy places in just five years, between 2009 and 2014. Other well-known graduate employers haven’t been so successful. British Airways ranked in 6th place in 1999 but dropped out of the Top 100 a decade later, and Ford, which was once rated as high as 11th, disappeared out of the list in 2006 after cancelling its graduate recruitment programme two years previously. Sainsbury’s last appeared in the top twenty in 2004 but left the Top 100 a decade ago and hasn’t been ranked since. More recent high-ranking casualties include the John Lewis Partnership which – having been 9th in 2003 – tumbled out of the Top 100 in 2020, and Boots, the pharmacy and health retailer that had appeared in 10th place in the inaugural edition of The Times Top 100 Graduate Employers , disappeared completely from the rankings in
record of being ranked within the Top 100 in all twenty-seven editions since 1999. The most consistent performers have been PwC, the Civil Service, the BBC and KPMG, each of which have never been lower than 15th place in the league table. The NHS has also had a formidable record, appearing in every top ten since 2003, while EY (formerly Ernst & Young) has remained within the top twenty throughout the past twenty- eight years. And investment bank Goldman Sachs has been ranked in the top quarter of the Top 100 every year from 1999 onwards. Retailer Tesco is the highest-climbing employer within the Top 100 , having risen eighty-eight places in its first thirteen years in the rankings, reaching 12th place in 2012. Google is another graduate employer that made very rapid progress during its early years in the Top 100 rankings, jumping over eighty places in a decade, to reach the top three for the first time in 2015. But car
Winners & Losers in the Top 100
EMPLOYERS CLIMBING HIGHEST
6th (1999) 7th (1999) 9th (2000) 9th (2013) 10th (1999) 11th (1999) 14th (2000) 17th (2002) 18th (2003) 19th (1999) 11th (2006) 22nd (2001) 27th (2004) 27th (2000) 26th (2018) 100th (1999) 85th (2005) 89th (2009) 94th (2013) 81st (2015) 87th (2009) 65th (2002) 96th (2007) 90th (2018) 63rd (2003) 87th (2009) 81st (1999) 94th (2004) 90th (2001) 76th (2014) HIGHEST RANKING NEW ENTRY RANKING
HIGHEST RANKING
TESCO GOOGLE NEWTON AMAZON LIDL
12th (2012) 3rd (2015) 13th (2017) 19th (2019) 10th (2022) 16th (2014) 33rd (2010) 28th (2021) 2nd (2014) 27th (2012) 23rd (2005) 37th (2009) 36th (2022) 26th (2018)
JAGUAR LAND ROVER
ALDI
2nd (2015-2016)
MI5 – THE SECURITY SERVICE
POLICE NOW TEACH FIRST
APPLE
DEUTSCHE BANK
ATKINS
SLAUGHTER AND MAY
FRONTLINE
EMPLOYERS FALLING FURTHEST
LOWEST RANKING
BRITISH AIRWAYS MARKS & SPENCER
Not ranked (2010, 2011, 2017, 2019-2022)
Not ranked (2021-2022) Not ranked (2025) Not ranked (FROM 2020) Not ranked (FROM 2021) Not ranked (FROM 2006) Not ranked (2026) Not ranked (2018) Not ranked (FROM 2016) Not ranked (FROM 2021)
MARS
JOHN LEWIS PARTNERSHIP
BOOTS FORD
BT
UBS
SAINSBURY’S EXXONMOBIL
SHELL
90th (2021)
THOMSON REUTERS
Not ranked (2009-2012, FROM 2014)
FRONTLINE
Not ranked (2024)
BANK OF AMERICA
Not ranked (FROM 2018) Not ranked (FROM 2017-2020)
Source High Fliers Research ASDA
16 TOP 100 GRADUATE EMPLOYERS
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