SECTOR Digital & Technology
Digital & Technology
Get into tech without the degree debt.
Digital apprenticeships are the fastest-growing route into tech, and employers increasingly prefer them: you arrive already knowing how their systems work.
Level 3 roles get you in as a support or data technician; level 4 and 6 schemes cover software development, networks and cyber security, including full degree apprenticeships where the employer pays the tuition.
5 Trades in this sector
Cyber Security Technician
Monitor, detect and respond to the attacks aimed at your organisation every day.
- Pay
- £30k–£55k
- Level
- L3
- Train
- 2 years
Data Technician
Collect, clean, analyse and present the data organisations make decisions with.
- Pay
- £26k–£45k
- Level
- L3
- Train
- 1.5 years
IT Support Technician
Fix the hardware, software and network problems that stop people working — the classic first job in tech.
- Pay
- £25k–£40k
- Level
- L3
- Train
- 1.5 years
Network Engineer
Design, build and secure the networks everything else depends on.
- Pay
- £32k–£58k
- Level
- L4
- Train
- 2 years
Software Developer
Write, test and maintain the software businesses run on — without a computer science degree or its debt.
- Pay
- £30k–£60k
- Level
- L4
- Train
- 2 years