Understanding the Graduate Job Market
employer featured in The Times Top 100 Graduate Employers this year. Other very substantial individual graduate recruiters include Teach First, the well-respected programme that recruits graduates to teach in schools in low-income communities around the UK, which has over 1,000 places available in 2027. And the accounting & professional services firms PwC, Deloitte and EY are each aiming to recruit 1,000 new graduate trainees in the year ahead. More than half of Top 100 employers have vacancies for graduates in technology and finance, two fifths have opportunities in engineering, and at least a quarter are recruiting for human resources
drops expected in the public sector, at media organisations, employers in the banking & finance sector, and investment banks & fund managers. Although vacancies at the accounting & professional services firms featured in the Top 100 are expected to increase in the year ahead, it remains one of the hardest-hit sectors in this current downturn in graduate recruitment. Having hired almost 6,500 graduates in 2023, there are expected to be just 4,625 trainee places available in the sector in 2027. The car & van rental company Enterprise Mobility is o!ering 1,100 graduate vacancies in 2027, the highest recruitment target of any
Graduate Vacancies & Starting Salaries in 2027
GRADUATE VACANCIES
5%
1,000 vacancies or more
11%
500-999 vacancies
17%
250-499 vacancies
30%
100-249 vacancies
13%
50-99 vacancies
23%
1-49 vacancies
1%
No vacancies
STARTING SALARIES
8%
£60,000 or more
19%
£50,000-£59,999
14%
£40,000-£49,999
19%
£35,000-£39,999
32%
£30,000-£34,999
8%
Less than £30,000
30
20
40
50
0
10
Percentage of Top 100 employers
Source High Fliers Research
28 TOP 100 GRADUATE EMPLOYERS
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