Role Job Title: Degree Apprentice Software Engineer Level 6
Unit: Networks
Location: BT Birmingham
Why this role matters: We’re one of the world’s leading communications services companies. The services we sell are integral to modern life and are delivered over our networks. These networks are becoming ever increasingly dependent upon software, along with the products and services delivered over these networks. To continue innovating, we need you and your new ways of thinking to help us create amazing products for our customers. We’ll teach you back-end software design, and agile ways of working, to help you create new technology and software solutions for the future.
What you’ll be doing: We’ll get you started right away, learning some job specific skills. You’ll create effective and secure software solutions using contemporary software development techniques, as well as learn about different development methodologies and how to undertake analysis and design to create and deliver software that needs to be running non-stop, all day, every day. We’ll teach you how to produce high quality code with sound syntax in at least one language and maybe more – the sky is your limit!
Day to day, you’ll be performing code review and debugging and refactoring, as well as testing code. You’ll work with our internal software development teams to create software solutions using industry standard build processes for our customers, as well as looking at things like version control, and how to release and deploy code into enterprise environments. Don’t worry if this all sounds new to you. We’re not expecting you to come in with any prior knowledge and will teach you everything you need to know as part of the apprenticeship programme.
You’ll learn how to deliver the very best software products, helping teams provide an effortless experience for our customers and staff wherever they are in the world, using whatever device and technology they choose.
The apprentice training course: As an Apprentice Software Engineer, you’ll study for a Level 6 apprenticeship in Software Engineering.
Hours: 37.5 hrs Mon – Fri
Start date: September 2025
Duration: Your apprenticeship will last for 48 months. You’ll spend a minimum of 20% of your time learning and studying.
The qualifications you’ll need: Three A-Levels with a minimum of BCC grades, 120 UCAS points. You’ll also need a minimum of five GCSEs at grades 4-9 (C or above) including English and Maths.
The skills you’ll need:
* Growth mindset
* Analytical thinking
* Proactivity
* Emotional intelligence
Salary: £21,840
After this apprenticeship: On completing of your apprenticeship, you could be employed in a specialist Software team within BT Networks. Here you can further develop your technical capabilities in software and network design and build, enhancing your skills in problem solving and process management. These competencies will be valuable as your progress your career post-apprenticeship. Additionally, there are opportunities for leadership roles both regionally and nationally for those aspiring to more senior positions within BT.
About BT Group
BT Group is the global powerhouse behind EE, BT, Plusnet, and Openreach.
We value diversity and celebrate difference. We’ll encourage you to be yourself, whatever your background. As Allison Kirkby, our CEO, says ‘The future of tech must be diverse and inclusive for everyone to benefit. Inclusion by design is the key to our strategy and will help us drive productivity, innovation, and growth for the UK and beyond’. Whichever brand you’re working for, we’re all playing for the same team. And we all enjoy the rewards of being part of something bigger: the opportunities to explore new experiences, pursue different dreams, climb challenging career ladders and try out different ways of working.
We’re always looking ahead. We don’t just sell broadband, networks, security, but thousands of clever things you’ve never heard of; in our Martlesham labs where we’re inventing the technologies of the future.
We’re always looking ahead. We don’t just sell broadband, and networks, and security, and thousands of clever things you’ve never heard of; in our Martlesham labs, we’re inventing the technologies of the future.
Four brands. One team, 105,300 strong. Together, we’re connecting the world. Come and play your part in building the BT Group of the future, one that will be net zero by 2031. and edit your work on the final page. We look forward to receiving your application!
Don't meet every single requirement?
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