IT Apprenticeships

Explore our IT Apprenticeships for hands-on experience, benefits and opportunities to grow. From here, you can jumpstart a career in energy.

Applications are now closed for 2025.

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Required qualifications

At least a grade 4/5 (C grade) in GCSE Maths & English (or equivalent) plus a level 3 qualification

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Duration

24 months

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Prospect

Develop your IT and digital career through on-the-job training a gaining professional expertise

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Salary

£19,500 rising to £22,095 throughout the programme

What will you learn?
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Overview of programme

Approximately 400 tech specialists make up around a quarter of RWE Supply & Trading’s entire workforce and work closely together in globally networked teams.

Combined with intelligent software, we have the perfect tools to fully exploit our potential. We’re looking for creative IT specialists who can lead us into the future with an apprenticeship qualification and innovative ideas.

What will you learn?

  • Individual roles vary from DevOps Engineers, Information Security Business Analysts to Associate Project Managers.

  • To support the real-time energy trading business where every second counts, you’ll be dealing with cloud-based platforms and infrastructure that includes the latest tech.

  • You’ll quickly grow to take on responsibility and work independently with tasks that have high visibility towards senior management across the company.

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What attributes do you need?

  • You’ll need to demonstrate motivation and enthusiasm for building a career in the IT and digital field, where you can further develop your existing IT skills.

  • Be ready to adapt in the fast-paced IT world, collaborating with diverse teams from different corners of the globe.

  • Solid communication skills are a must, along with the ability to build trusting relationships, and balance work, study and life.

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This will be your salary

£19,500
 Year 1
£22,095
 Year 2

Benefits & Rewards

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Up to 10% of salary in personal bonus each year

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20% off-the-job training

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Training and development with QA, our digital learning provider

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On-site restaurant facilities in a modern refurbished building

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Free barista-served tea, coffee and hot drinks


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On-site gym facilities

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Free parking

Benefits & Rewards

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Company-wide benefits and discounts

Locations

We offer our IT Apprenticeships at the following location:

  • Swindon

    RWE Supply & Trading

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    All the RWE Supply & Trading Apprentices are based in our UK head office in Swindon. It is a modern office with free secure parking, good transport links, canteen, free tea, coffee and refreshments and our own on-site gym facilities.

    You can find more images and information on our Swindon office on our career pages on rwe.com.

    Any questions left?

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    I'm Lewis Lightbown from the RWE Supply & Trading Early Careers Team and manage our global IT and IT Developer Graduate Programmes alongside Apprenticeships at our office in Swindon. You’ve checked the information provided and there are still open questions left?

    I will be happy to answer them via email or phone +44(0)7584 159042.

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“My IT Apprenticeship at RWE Supply & Trading was the best decision I made after leaving college – it taught me life-changing skills, even in the first five months.”

Phoebe, Level 4 Associate Project Manager, Data Centre and Cloud C&DC

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