The definitive guide to Britain's top graduate employers in 2025-2026
Compiled from research with over 14,000 graduates who left university in 2025, The Times Top 100 Graduate Employers showcases Britain's most sought-after graduate employers - and features over 25,000 graduate vacancies available at the country's top employers in 2026.
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The Times Top 100 Graduate Employers is an authoritative, easy-to-use guide that is essential reading for all university students and recent graduates looking for their first job in 2025-2026.
Copies of the hard-backed full-colour book are available free-of-charge from the university careers services at more than 50 universities across the UK, while stocks last.
The book features the latest information about graduate vacancies at The Times Top 100 Graduate Employers in 2026 – employers’ entry requirements, details of the type and location of their graduate jobs, application deadlines, and graduate starting salaries.
The Times Top 100 Graduate Employers book is also available to purchase, priced £19.99 from Amazon.
Apply early for graduate vacancies at Britain's top employers
Employers featured in The Times Top 100 Graduate Employers typically receive 40 to 50 applications per graduate vacancy and the most-popular employers attract two or three times that number of applicants. For their 2026 graduate programmes, many of the country's top employers have application deadlines between now and the end of December 2025 - and some recruit on a first-come first-served basis. So apply early and keep an eye on The Times Top 100 Graduate Employers on social media for details of employers' application deadlines.
Many employers either recruit graduates on a rolling basis during the year – often filling their vacancies on a first-come first-served basis – or have a series of deadlines for different job functions:
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