Understanding the Graduate Job Market
Other very substantial individual graduate recruiters in 2024 include the car & van rental company Enterprise Mobility (1,300 graduate vacancies), the Civil Service Fast Stream (1,000 vacancies) and accounting & professional services firms EY and KPMG (1,000 vacancies each). Over half of Top 100 employers have vacancies for graduates in technology and finance, two fifths have opportunities in engineering, and a third are recruiting for human resources roles, consulting positions, or general management vacancies. At least a fifth of the country’s top graduate employers are looking for new recruits to work in sales or marketing and research & development,
In the next 12 months, graduate recruitment is predicted to rise or match 2024 hiring levels in just six out of fifteen key industries and business sectors, with graduate vacancies expected to decrease in the remaining nine sectors. The three employers from The Times Top 100 Graduate Employers with the biggest graduate recruitment targets for 2025 are Teach First, the popular programme that recruits graduates to teach in schools in low-income communities around the UK, which has 1,750 places available – and accounting & professional services firms PwC and Deloitte, which are each aiming to recruit 1,500 new trainees in the year ahead.
Graduate Vacancies & Starting Salaries in 2025
GRADUATE VACANCIES
4%
More than 1,000 vacancies
8%
501-1,000 vacancies
17%
251-500 vacancies
21%
101-250 vacancies
21%
51-100 vacancies
27%
1-50 vacancies
2%
No vacancies
STARTING SALARIES
18%
More than £50,000
6%
£45,001-£50,000
8%
£40,001-£45,000
11%
£35,001-£40,000
35%
£30,001-£35,000
20%
£25,001-£30,000
2%
£25,000 or less
30
20
40
50
0
10
Percentage of Top 100 employers
Source High Fliers Research
28 TOP 100 GRADUATE EMPLOYERS
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