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We know your background or degree doesn’t tell the whole story. That’s why we’re much more interested in what makes you, you. Your ideas, your unique perspective, your desire to embrace change and succeed, while always remaining true to yourself. Our wide choice of programmes will help you on your way, providing the support, training, competitive salary, and opportunities to make a career with us a real page-turner.
We invited our 2023 cohort to a sneak preview in July to see our new head office and to meet each other before they start.
Watch the video below to see how the day unfolded.
Plot a page-turning career with us.
Our programmes
Browse through our variety of programmes to find one that’s suited to you and the career story you want to develop. Whatever your degree background, each programme gives you the opportunity to create an exciting future with us, whatever your background. Applications for our 2024 scheme are now open.
Haven’t found the right programme for you? Discover our latest opportunities by joining our Talent Community.
- What's involved?
- What can I expect?
- Location
Every graduate scheme is different, and the skills you need across each one will vary. That's why we’ve applied degree neutrality to our programmes, to attract graduates with different types of degrees and grades, as we're looking for skills found within many disciplines.
Whether you're rotating across different business areas or based in London or Milton Keynes, you'll work with expert team members who will inspire and support you to be your best.
It varies between schemes, but here's a general overview of what we're looking for:
- Actual or anticipated completion of a Bachelor’s degree
- A collaborative approach to work
- Passion for learning
- Commitment to The Santander Way, and our five behaviours:
- Think Customer: 'I care about our customers so I go the extra mile to earn their trust and loyalty'
- Embrace change: 'I embrace new challenges and I see new ways of doing things as an opportunity to grow'
- Act Now: 'I take accountability and manage risks accordingly, always keeping things simple'
- Move Together: 'I seek opportunities to promote collaboration and work together to achieve common goals'
- Speak Up: 'I feel free to raise any idea, ask any question or escalate any issues or risks, building an environment of respect and trust.
I am comfortable sharing and receiving feedback.'
- Think Customer: 'I care about our customers so I go the extra mile to earn their trust and loyalty'
While each scheme requires a different set of skills and output, each graduate will benefit from the following to help with their personal and professional development:
- Exposure to critical business projects
- Rotations to broaden your experience
- A structured development programme focused accelerating your capability
- Support for a professional qualification
- Opportunity to build a career as a trusted expert
- Flexible working arrangements
- Mentorship from our senior leaders
- Access to ongoing career coaching
- Face to face networking with your peers
- Working at our innovative new facility, Unity Place*
- A permanent position upon completion
*some roles may be based outside of Milton Keynes
Our new home has become the centre of gravity for our business and help to make our new hybrid approach work for everyone. Unity Place has been built with sustainability and employee experience in mind and will be a place we can collaborate as a business It will give our people the opportunity to make use of state-of-the-art facilities and come together with their teams from across the UK.
Most of our graduate roles will be based in our brand-new exciting Milton Keynes office. If you are part of our Treasury scheme, you’ll be based in our Triton Square office in London.
For those on our Corporate and Commercial Banking scheme we have business centres across major cities in the UK as well as presence in our London office.
Following your first placement, if you are asked to relocate then we will support you with up to a £1000 relocation payment.
We want our people to thrive at work and home, and we recognise that many people benefit from flexible arrangements. To enable us to deliver the best outcomes for our customers and to help each other develop we understand the importance of having the right balance of spending time together in an office while maintaining flexibility.
By working this way, we can continue to create moments that matter for everyone. To support this, we offer site-based contracts with a hybrid working pattern with the expectation to spend at least 2 days in an office every week.
- Retail Graduate
- Finance
- Corporate and Commercial Banking
- Risk & Compliance
- Treasury
Application for this scheme have now closed.
To register your interest for future schemes and to get hints and tips, please join our Talent Community
Do you have a passion for finance and an appetite for growth? Are you eager to make a difference by helping shape the future of retail banking? Our Retail Graduate Scheme is the perfect launchpad for a career where you’ll be on a path of discovery and learning what it takes to help shape the future of retail banking.
Through tailored rotations across key areas to shape your expertise, you’ll work with our team of professionals to discover the heart of Santander UK's retail banking division. The variety of placements allow you to learn the ropes of retail banking and gain a holistic understanding of our operations and customer-focused approach. Plus you’ll get to choose placements yourself where you’ll get to experience the wide range of departments retail banking has to offer.
We want to offer you a future with us, so place a strong emphasis on your professional growth to provide you with the tools and support required to develop the skills, knowledge and confidence to excel in the finance industry. It’s why we guarantee a position within Santander UK once you’ve successfully completed the programme.
If you’re ready to get on the path to discovery, our Retail team want to find out more about you.
Santander. Setting potential free.
At Santander we’re creating a thriving workplace where all colleagues feel they belong and are supported to succeed. We all help to make Santander a workplace that celebrates diversity and attracts, retains and develops the most talented and committed people through living our values of Simple, Personal, and Fair. To find out more please visit our Diversity & Inclusion page here.
Application for this scheme have now closed.
To register your interest for future schemes and to get hints and tips, please join our Talent Community
Do you have a naturally analytical mind, with a drive to solve problems and build trusted relationships?
Thanks to the expert guidance of a brilliant and close-knit team, our Finance Graduate Programme will help you get your head around all aspects of finance, including internal and external reporting, budgeting and forecasting future performance. Through the three-year programme you’ll develop a strong understanding of the purpose of the Finance function and gain hands on experience in a variety of different Finance roles as you build knowledge, skills, and relationships across every area of the company.
We'll support you to quickly develop the confidence, skills, and experience to maximise your potential, and each time you pass an exam, you’ll be eligible for a pay increase, so by the end of the programme you could be earning in up to £47,000.
If you enjoy analysis, problem-solving and building relationships with colleagues and peers, our Finance team want to find out more about you.
Santander. Setting potential free.
At Santander we’re creating a thriving workplace where all colleagues feel they belong and are supported to succeed. We all help to make Santander a workplace that celebrates diversity and attracts, retains and develops the most talented and committed people through living our values of Simple, Personal, and Fair. To find out more please visit our Diversity & Inclusion page here.
Application for this scheme have now closed.
To register your interest for future schemes and to get hints and tips, please join our Talent Community.
Are you passionate about people? Do you thrive when you make meaningful relationships with others? Would you enjoy using your problem-solving skills to improve outcomes for our customers, aligned with our values of Simple, Personal and Fair?
This programme encourages you to embrace change, put forward ideas and seek innovative solutions. You’ll build meaningful relationships with our Corporate, SME and Institutional customers, identifying their ambitions and helping actualise them. You’ll work with some of our most innovative customer-focused teams to help make banking simple, personal and fair. On rotation, you’ll gain insights into various diverse products and business areas, including Corporate & Commercial Coverage and Credit Risk function.
Our Corporate and Commercial Banking team have business centres across major cities in the UK as well as presence in our London office.
Following your first placement, if you are asked to relocate then we will support you with up to a £1000 relocation payment.
In addition, we’ll support you in developing your technical expertise and the influencing and relationship-building skills that will shape your career.
If you’re someone who wants to put the customer at the heart of your career journey, our Corporate and Commercial Banking team want to find out more about you.
Santander. Setting potential free.
At Santander we’re creating a thriving workplace where all colleagues feel they belong and are supported to succeed. We all help to make Santander a workplace that celebrates diversity and attracts, retains and develops the most talented and committed people through living our values of Simple, Personal, and Fair. To find out more please visit our Diversity & Inclusion page here.
Application for this scheme have now closed.
To register your interest for future schemes and to get hints and tips, please join our Talent Community.
Your ethical commitment, attention to detail and problem-solving skills will be your superpowers in helping our organization thrive in the current complex, ever-changing environment.
Risk management touches on every aspect of what an organisation does, and includes people with the most diverse backgrounds, skills, and disciplines. As a Risk & Compliance Graduate, you’ll support our strategy for the wider bank, taking on diverse challenges across three nine-month rotations with various teams across Risk, Compliance and Economic Crime. Alongside some of the most engaging colleagues in the business, you’ll work on projects that will make a meaningful difference not only to our colleagues but also our customers, and the communities we support.
You will shape the future of a more ethical, sustainable business for generations to come. In this dynamic and challenging field, your work will constantly evolve, providing exciting opportunities for growth and learning. You’ll be part of making our bank a leader in risk function and encouraged to put forward your ideas with no limit to where your career could take you.
If you are looking for a career where you can make a real impact, our Risk & Compliance team want to find out more about you.
Santander. Setting potential free.
At Santander we’re creating a thriving workplace where all colleagues feel they belong and are supported to succeed. We all help to make Santander a workplace that celebrates diversity and attracts, retains and develops the most talented and committed people through living our values of Simple, Personal, and Fair. To find out more please visit our Diversity & Inclusion page here.
Application for this scheme have now closed.
To register your interest for future schemes and to get hints and tips, please join our Talent Community.
As one of our Treasury Graduates you’ll be part of a programme that’s tailored to equip and empower you from day one. Through comprehensive training and on-the-job learning, you’ll quickly develop the confidence, skills and experience to hit the ground running and maximise your potential.
Santander UK's Treasury function manages a diverse range of financial and market risks that derive from our customer balance sheet ensuring it remains strong and stable. The treasury function has responsibility for managing Liquidity, Funding, Capital, and Interest Rate Risk; producing economic forecasts; issuing wholesale debt and capital market instruments; liaising with investors; and managing our Recovery and Resolution Planning. We are also responsible for associated prudential regulatory requirements, and for running the bank's Internal Liquidity Adequacy Assessment Process and Internal Capital Adequacy Assessment Process.
Within our graduate programme you will experience the full end to end Treasury function, from Liquidity or Capital Planning, to executing wholesale market transactions, to facilitating the clearing and settlement of wholesale trades.
If you are looking for a position with endless possibilities and the opportunity to specialise in a broad range of fields, Treasury is likely the role you’re looking for.
Santander. Setting potential free.
At Santander we’re creating a thriving workplace where all colleagues feel they belong and are supported to succeed. We all help to make Santander a workplace that celebrates diversity and attracts, retains and develops the most talented and committed people through living our values of Simple, Personal, and Fair. To find out more please visit our Diversity & Inclusion page here.
