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At the FCA, we regulate financial services firms in the UK, to keep financial markets fair, thriving and effective. By joining us, you’ll play a key part in protecting consumers, driving economic growth, and shaping the future of UK financial services. We’re looking for graduates to join our diverse and highly capable teams across the FCA.
About the programme
Programme Length: Two years
Programme Type: Rotational
Our Regulatory graduate scheme offers broad experience across regulation giving you opportunities across multiple areas of the FCA. The programme will prepare you for a future in our Regulatory profession, where you can work across a number of our divisions: Authorisations, Policy, Supervision, Market Oversight, Enforcement and Risk Management & Compliance experiencing the breadth of the regulatory life cycle. We’ll support you to build technical expertise of financial services, understand regulatory frameworks, and protect consumers through ensuring market integrity.
On your FCA graduate programme, you will develop core skills in Judgment, Engagement, Self-Management and Delivery. Across your rotations, you could be supporting vulnerable consumers, conducting investigations, developing our strategy or supervising firms. The FCA gives you the opportunity to shape your career whilst developing with purpose.
Your first two rotations will be shared with you before you join us, they have been selected to support you in building your skills, knowledge and experience across financial services, setting you up for success in your career with us. Your career goals and interests will be considered when your final rotation is selected, supporting your aspirations, and the FCA’s strategy.
Learning and development
As a graduate on our Regulatory Programme, you’ll be able to undertake formal learning aligned to your development goals. This will form part of your ongoing development in the second year of your programme.
Alongside this, you will be part of a development programme with your early careers peers from the day you join. The programme is designed to empower you and help you excel in a complex and dynamic environment. Centred on the FCA values such as self-sufficiency, resilience, ambition, engagement, and integrity, the programme encourages purposeful action, accountable decision-making, and impactful delivery within the public interest. We will help you build personal effectiveness, advance professionally, and have a meaningful contribution whilst on programme and in your future career.
What we look for
We are looking for candidates who are curious and eager to develop in a professional environment. Your ability to build relationships at all levels and understand and analyse data will help you succeed in a role here.
Our colleagues are from a wide range of backgrounds; you can apply for our regulatory scheme with any degree. You don’t need to have any specific experience; you’ll learn through working in your team alongside experienced colleagues.
What we offer
We’re committed to making the FCA a great place to work. We do this by:
- providing a rewarding environment, recognising that our people are motivated by meaningful work
- maintaining a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion, allowing people to develop and progress without barriers
- looking after the well-being of our people, ensuring that they are safe and well and appropriately cared for
- promoting an environment in which people are valued and respected
Beyond this, we offer all our graduates a competitive range of benefits, including:
- A salary of £36,000
- Flexible working options
- Private health care
- Career and family leave
- Non-contributory pension
- Charity and volunteering initiatives
- Minimum of 25 days’ holiday
- Sports and social clubs
- Subsidised on-site fitness centre (London only)
- Free eye tests
- Subsidised restaurant
- Interest-free season ticket loans.
Join us and shape the future in financial services - we look forward to receiving your application!
Please note
- We only accept one application across our early careers programmes within any six-month period. Any additional applications will not be progressed.
- We welcome applications from all candidates. However, graduate scheme offers are subject to candidates independently obtaining and maintaining permission to work in the UK for the duration of the programme. It is your responsibility to immediately inform us of any changes to your right to work status as this may impact any offer and your ability to continue on the programme. As required by law, we cannot offer sponsorship where the role does not meet the Home Office eligibility requirements. More information on working in the UK can be found on the government website Work in the UK - GOV.UK’
- Your application and any work you submit throughout the recruitment process must be all your own. You should not allow another person to complete any parts of the assessment nor submit responses provided or generated by an AI assistant or other similar software.
- Applicants must have obtained or be on track to achieve a minimum 2:1 degree from any university.
- Applicants for the 2026 graduate programmes must have graduated or be in their final year of study.
For the 2026 Graduate Programme, please submit your online application by midnight Sunday 30th November 2025. Please be aware, we review applications as we receive them and may close our application window early if we have a high volume of candidates, therefore we encourage you to apply early.
