IT Graduate Scheme

The Opportunity - IT Graduate Scheme

Start Date - September 2026, typically for 24 months

Starting Salary - Circa £30,000

Minimum Entry Criteria - You need to be near to, or have completed, an appropriate bachelor’s or master’s degree and must be on track to achieve a 2:1 or higher.

Unfortuantly, JCB is unable to offer visa sponsorship or immigration support for its Early Careers Schemes, either now or in the future. This includes individuals currently on sponsored visas.

What does the IT Graduate Scheme involve day to day?

IT is a critical part of the JCB success story, helping to build one of the world’s best-known brands and taking the lead in digital transformation for this global company, with a reputation for Innovation and an exciting strategy for future growth. The IT Graduate Scheme offers an excellent chance to develop your technical, business, and personal skills in a fantastic environment as part of our fast paced, agile teams. You’ll work on projects like managing hyperscale infrastructure, developing digital twins to speed up the product innovation, and using AI technology to protect the business from cyber-attacks. The scheme includes hands-on experience and placements in various IT areas, along with formal training to help you understand JCB operations better.

What could I be doing?

Engineering and Business Systems - Demand and relationship management, core engineering & business systems (e.g., CAD/PLM, Simulation Tools, SAP) and how they enable business processes, system development/change control/testing, project delivery

Infrastructure - Availability and Capacity management, network management (WAN, LAN, Wi-Fi), database administration, server, and storage management (hyperscalers and on-prem)

Cyber Security - Cyber security technology, incident response, penetration testing, employee awareness and vigilance, security analysis (applications, vendors)

Service & Operations - Service management (Incident, Problem and Change Management), service catalogue management, asset management, End User Compute strategy

Data & Analytics - Data modelling and design, data visualisation, ETL, analytics tools, Machine Learning and AI techniques

Project Management Office - Project justification/business cases, project mobilisation and funding, business analysis and solutioning, project planning and control, business change management, portfolio management

Cross-functional placement - (e.g., 3-month placement to gain broader JCB business experience in Finance, Marketing, Purchasing, or Engineering)

What comes next?

1. We’ll be reviewing applications against the essential criteria then shortlisting and sending out links to our online assessments in November 2025 - January 2026 (we’d recommend you keep a look out for emails at this point as you’ll hear from us either way).
2. Once you’ve fully completed your online assessment, we’ll review it and provide you with an update within a few weeks. Please note, if you’ve not completed your online assessment then we won’t take your application further (we’ll send you a few reminders to make sure you don’t forget). If you've been progressed, you’ll be sent an invite to attend one of our in-person Assessment Centres.
3. In-person Assessment Centres will take place from January to April 2026 (we’ll send you all the details you need).
4. Following your Assessment Centre, whether you’ve been successful or not, our promise to you is that you’ll receive a call with feedback.
5. If successful, congratulations! We’ll now take you through the onboarding process, which will include a familiarisation day.
6. Welcome to JCB – our Early Careers cohorts ordinarily start in early September.

What’s in it for you?

This is your chance to join a company that’s not only picking up awards for its Early Careers schemes but also opens up opportunities for the long term. On a JCB Early Careers Scheme you’ll join a company that’s known for developing its people, and somewhere that offers a career for life. As standard, you’ll get 33 days’ holiday, and access to our stakeholder pension scheme, you can also opt into our Private Medical scheme with Bupa.  Not only that, but you’ll also benefit from access to our onsite gym, in-house doctor and dentist. There’s also a JCB Rewards Hub, which gives you discounts at many high street fashion and food retailers. And if you feel like biking to work? There’s our Cycle to Work Scheme. As part of your scheme, you’ll be involved in a professional outdoor development programme in the Lake District. We also encourage our cohorts to network and get involved in our “NextGen” society.

We value diversity and welcome applications from candidates from all backgrounds.

We’re committed to ensuring our recruitment process is fair and inclusive. If you face any accessibility challenges with your online application and require additional support, you have the option of speaking to a member of our Resourcing team who can support you to complete an application in an alternative format. If you would benefit from this support, please email recruitment@jcb.com, and a member of the team will be in touch.