Get inspiration from our survey of the top 200 employers that school students in the UK say they’d most like to work for, as featured in our publication TARGETcareers Guide to your future.
TARGETcareers Guide to your future gives straightforward explanations of the different options for students when they leave school, including university, apprenticeships, professional qualifications and more. It contains more information on the top 200 employers for school leavers listed below, as well as the stories of school leavers already working there.
Laing O’Rourke

RSM

NHS

BBC

Warner Bros

MI6 – Secret Intelligence Service

ITV

Apple

Teach First

Microsoft

Civil Service Fast Stream

The Army

Rolls Royce plc

GSK

MI5 - The Security Service

HM Revenue and Customs

Barclays

Channel 4

Jaguar Land Rover

Ubisoft

British Airways

BAE Systems

Cancer Research UK

Mercedes-Benz

J.P. Morgan

The Royal Navy

AstraZeneca

Amazon

Heathrow Academy

Samsung

Airbus

BMW Group

TUI UK & Ireland

Bentley

Deloitte

Local Government – NGDP

Amnesty International

Hilton Worldwide
PwC

HSBC Bank Plc

Penguin Random House

Virgin Media

Dyson

Oxfam

Sony

Lloyd’s

Lloyds Banking Group

Police

Adidas group

Santander

L'Oreal

Aston Martin

Pfizer

Intel

Environment Agency

Mercedes AMG High Performance Powertrains Ltd

GCHQ

Arcadia Group

The Royal Air Force

Harrods

Bank of England

Bank of America

Boots

Starbucks

Debenhams

Merlin Entertainments plc

Travelodge

British Council

John Lewis Partnership

Roche

Volkswagen Group UK

Visa

McDonald's Restaurants Ltd

Irwin Mitchell

National Audit Office

Clifford Chance

Nationwide

DSTL

Marks & Spencer

Whitbread Group

Aldi

Slaughter and May

Next

Ford

American Express

Allen & Overy LLP

Coca Cola European Partners

Linklaters LLP

Network Rail

Tesco

Siemens

Morgan Stanley

Nissan

Marriott International

National Grid

Unilever

Deutsche Bank

Transport for London

The Royal Bank of Scotland Group


Sainsbury's

Abercrombie & Fitch

EE

Reckitt Benckiser

Nestlé

Cisco

Arup

Clyde & Co

Balfour Beatty

Asda

Bosch

Citi

Kennedys

Shell

Fidelity International

Grant Thornton

Co-operative Bank

WSP

Mars

Travis Perkins

Eversheds Sutherland LLP

Pinsent Masons

DLA Piper LLP

Kier Group

Co-operative Group Ltd

Burger King

Ashfords

Royal Mail Group plc

HS2

Allianz

Lidl

BP

Capgemini

UBS

Aviva

Financial Conduct Authority

HP

TJX Europe (TK Maxx & Homesense)

Capital One

AECOM

Dentons

Osborne Clarke

InterContinental Hotels Group

Great Western Railway

EDF Energy

Burges Salmon

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

ARM

Reed Smith

Greene King

Morrisons Plc

Baker McKenzie LLP

Credit Suisse

Barratt Developments

BlackRock

Womble Bond Dickinson

UK Power Networks

Fujitsu

Bird & Bird

BDO LLP

Charles Russell Speechlys

Thales

O2 (Telefonica Group)

Mott MacDonald

Alfa

SSE

Frontline

Atkins

AXA

Ashurst

3M UK

Shoosmiths

Mencap

Mazars

Moore Stephens

M&G Investments

RPC

Skanska

PA Consulting Group

BAM

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Jacobs

Vodafone

Leonardo

Hogan Lovells

Hargreaves Lansdown

Taylor Wessing

Yorkshire Building Society (YBS Group)
