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At the FCA, we help to protect financial consumers and make markets work well by regulating nearly 45,000 firms. Our ambition is to become a more innovative, more assertive and more adaptive regulator; one that fully capitalises on data and technology, ensures consumer protection and market integrity, and responds well to the challenges we face.  We’re looking for graduates to join our diverse and highly capable teams across the FCA. 

The role

Programme Length: Ten weeks

Dates: Monday 16 June 2025 – Friday 22nd August 2025

Our Summer Internship Programme gives you valuable insight into the FCA and financial services market and provides you with an opportunity for real responsibility while you’re with us. As an Economics summer intern, you’ll sit within the Economics Division, which provides rigorous economic thinking, research, analysis, and advice.

As economists, we help the FCA deliver on its strategic objective of making financial services markets work well. For example, you may have conduct options and cost-benefit analysis to shape our policy decisions or contribute to economic research on strategically important issues facing financial markets.

Whichever team you join, you’ll be showing us your potential and we’ll show you what a career in economics is really like. You’ll experience first-hand the breadth and diversity of work we do here at the FCA and learn from the brightest minds in the industry through learning lunches and speaker sessions from our senior leaders. You’ll also be paired with one of our current graduates to help you build your professional network. By the end of the programme you’ll be able to decide whether a career as a professional economist is for you – and successful interns could be offered a place on our 2026 Economics Development Programme (EDP) graduate scheme at the end of the summer.

What we look for

For the Economics Summer Internship, we ask is that you’re in your penultimate year of study and on track to gain a 2:1 degree. To be eligible, you should be pursuing a degree in Economics, a mixed degree with at least 50% in economics, or studying a quantitative subject (like maths or statistics).

Most importantly, we’re looking for passion, integrity, ambition and aptitude. We want you to use and build upon the transferrable skills from your degree; working collaboratively and being strategically minded to solve problems and form judgements.

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

At the FCA you’ll have the opportunity to make a difference. We offer all our summer interns:

  • A competitive salary of £22,000 (pro rata)
  • A bespoke induction in the first week of the summer internship programme to introduce you to what we do at the FCA and our place in the Financial Services landscape
  • Access to a skills training path to support you through your internship and beyond 
  • Completion of a financial services related project that benefits the local community, which you will present to a senior panel of judges towards the end of your internship
  • Opportunity to hear from senior speakers across the business 
  • Lunch and learn sessions to widen your knowledge of the FCA divisions and their work 
  • Social opportunities to network and engage with your intern cohort 

Please note

  • We only accept ONE application per person for our 2025 programmes, therefore, please apply to your first-choice programme. Any additional applications will not be progressed. 
  • Your application and any work you submit throughout the recruitment process must be all your own. You will 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 for the 2025 Data Science Summer Internship must be on track to achieve a minimum 2:1 degree from any university and be in their penultimate year of study with a graduation year of 2026.
  • For the 2025 Data Science Summer Internship, submit your online application by Sunday 10th November 2024. However, we recruit on a rolling basis and therefore encourage early applications.