Public sector · 2026-27 cycle

Government Actuary's Department (GAD) actuarial graduate scheme and deadlines

A public body. The work is advice to government, regulation of the insurance and pensions market, or running a statutory scheme, and the recruitment process is the public sector’s rather than a firm’s. Every actuarial route we follow at Government Actuary's Department (GAD) is below, with the window in the employer’s own words, the closing date where one is published, and the day it was last read.

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Updated daily, last checked 11 September 2026 · last full manual review 29 July 2026. Employer pages can change between checks, so confirm the current details on the employer’s own page before you apply. Something missing or wrong: hello@acttuary.com

What Government Actuary's Department (GAD) has published

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Graduate Trainee Actuary

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Graduate scheme

Closes: The employer has published no closing date for this route.
Locations: London (Canary Wharf)
Practice areas: Public sector, Pensions, General insurance, Life insurance
What to know: GAD says it recruits actuarial staff two ways: directly for specialist vacancies, or as entrants to its analyst and trainee programmes, all advertised on Civil Service Jobs. It never uses the phrase graduate trainee actuary; the words on its own page are that it typically recruits qualified actuaries, trainee actuaries and analysts. Its vacancy list still carried no trainee campaign on 27 August 2026, only a learning and development officer closing 2 September and general insurance, pensions and head of function roles closing 7 and 8 September. The 2026-cycle advert closed at 23:55 on 23 November 2025 with assessment centres in the week of 26 January 2026, quoted a salary of £36,579 with a Civil Service defined benefit pension contribution of £10,596 on top, and asked only for a 2:2 or above in a degree with high mathematical content, which is a lower academic bar than most schemes here.

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Last checked: from the employer's page, 27 August 2026

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