2025 DTI Cyber Security Graduate Programme

About Us

At the FCA, we help to protect financial consumers and make markets work well by regulating nearly 45,000 firms. Our ambition is to become a more innovative, more assertive and more adaptive regulator; one that fully capitalises on data and technology, ensures consumer protection and market integrity, and responds well to the challenges we face. We’re looking for interns to join our diverse and highly capable teams across the FCA.

About the Programme

Programme Length: Two years (3 x 6-month rotations in home department, 1 x 6-month in external department)
Programme Type: Rotational

In Data, Technology & Innovation (DTI), we are transforming the way the FCA analyses and uses the data, intelligence, and information we receive so that we can spot harm and act sooner, enabling us to regulate the firms more effectively we oversee.

DTI provides IT and Data services to the rest of the FCA. It is split in to three directorates: Data and Innovation, Digital Product and Technology. There are many diverse teams within these divisions who design and develop our technological solutions and manage and maintain technology and data so it’s available to all across the FCA.

This graduate role will focus on Cyber Security within DTI and the wider FCA. You will be working within the Technology Resilience department under our exciting security team.

What work can you expect

Working within Cyber Security you can expect to have direct hands-on technical experience with computing software, including ownership of component development. You will be accountable for elements of security tooling and direct involvement with automation and orchestration technology enhancing our security posture. You will gain crucial experience and skills needed for a Security Engineer and work within a cross collaborative environment with senior engineers and analysts to provide a DevSecOps lens on how our team function.

There is also opportunity for you to work with multiple different security teams across the FCA, including our strategy and architecture team and cyber and information resilience team for a rotation.

Learning & Development

Throughout your time at the FCA, you will be able to advance your capabilities through training initiatives, such as e-learning, access to a wide range of self-service learning platforms and portals as well as access to regular seminars with suppliers, academics and thought leaders.

You’ll be supported by our experienced technologists, who will mentor you throughout your time on the graduate programme. You can also join one of our communities of practice related to your specialism. This means you will benefit from the knowledge of others and have opportunities to share your knowledge while developing critical business skills. Our graduates present their work to large audiences internally and externally, contribute to technology delivery for the wider organisation, and work together to ensure technology delivers our strategic outcomes.

What We Look for

Our Cyber team are an extremely fast paced environment and thus we are looking for someone with experience working with Technology. We are specifically looking for someone who has experience with Python and/or PowerShell. Alongside these engineering skills, it is important that you have an understanding for scripting for security tools, as well as understanding and debugging existing scripts or scripts provided by third parties.

As well as your technical focus you should be customer-focused and commercially minded. You will need solid communication skills and an analytical mind.

What We Offer

We’re committed to making the FCA a great place to work. We do this by:

• providing a rewarding environment, recognising that our people are motivated by meaningful work
• maintaining a solid commitment to diversity and inclusion, allowing people to develop and progress without barriers
• looking after the well-being of our people, ensuring that they are safe and well and appropriately cared for
• promoting an environment in which people are valued and respected

Beyond this, we offer all our graduates a competitive range of benefits, including:

• Base salary of £36,000
• Adaptable working options
• Private health care
• Career and family leave
• Non-contributory pension
• Charity and volunteering initiatives
• Minimum of 25 days’ holiday
• Sports and social clubs
• Subsidised on-site fitness centre (London only)
• Free eye tests
• Subsidised restaurant
• Interest-free season ticket loans

Please note:

• We only accept ONE application per person for our 2025 programmes, therefore, please apply to your first-choice programme. Any additional applications will not be progressed.
• Your application and any work you submit throughout the recruitment process must be all your own. You will not allow another person to complete any parts of the assessment nor submit responses provided or generated by an AI assistant or other similar software.
• Applicants must have obtained or be on track to achieve a minimum 2:1 degree from any university.
• Applicants for the 2025 graduate programmes must have graduated or be in their final year of study.
• We recruit on a rolling basis and therefore encourage early applications.