Our Data Analyst Apprenticeship is an 18-month work-based training programme. Apprentices join a small cohort of Data Analyst Apprentices and are placed within one of our ICT functional teams (such as the Products Data Team or Technology Office), where they work alongside experienced colleagues.

Apprentices also spend 20% of their time undertaking a special programme of training offered by our training partner, working towards an industry-recognised qualification at level 4. Key training areas include:

• Foundations of Excel; aggregating joining data, pivot tables, visualisations, data cleaning
• Relational databases
• Querying with SQL; aggregating, cleansing and segmenting with SQL; joins, views, functions
• Fundamentals of Microsoft PowerBI; visualisations, dashboarding
• Programming basics; Python; data cleansing and editing with Python
• Predictive modelling; SciKit-learning; regression modelling
• Machine Learning
• Big Data Concepts

The programme is fully aligned to the Data Analyst apprenticeship standard. At the end of this apprenticeship, subject to successful completion of the programme, apprentices will be supported to apply for a role at the College or a higher apprenticeship.