XPS Group actuarial graduate scheme, placement year, school leaver route and deadlines

Graduate scheme

Closes

The employer has published no closing date for this route.

Locations

Reading, Guildford, Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds, Edinburgh

Practice areas

Pensions, Investments

What to know

XPS says its graduate, intern and apprenticeship pathways build strong foundations with structured learning, study support, a dedicated mentor and a buddy, but publishes no window. The word actuarial does not appear on the early careers page, only on the careers landing page. Vacancies live on an external portal, which on 27 August 2026 loaded a search form and built its list in the browser, so the openings cannot be read from the page itself. XPS states it cannot offer visa sponsorship.

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

Placement year

Closes

The employer has published no closing date for this route.

Locations

Reading, Guildford, Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds, Edinburgh

Practice areas

Pensions

What to know

Placements starting August 2026 were advertised in the previous cycle across Reading, Guildford, Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds and Edinburgh. XPS does not call this route a placement anywhere on its own site. Three of its own pages were read again on 28 August 2026 (early careers, the careers landing page and current vacancies) and the word placement is on none of them. What the early careers page says instead is that its graduate, intern and apprenticeship pathways give you real responsibility, and that you might be joining straight from school, university or through an internship or apprenticeship. So the route this row is about is the one XPS calls an internship, and until XPS says otherwise the honest answer is that it publishes no placement year: no window, no vacancy of its own, and a vacancy portal that builds its list in the browser and cannot be read automatically. This row stays on appearance watch for the word.

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Last checked: from the employer's page, 28 August 2026

School leaver

Closes

The employer has published no closing date for this route.

Locations

Reading, Guildford, Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds, Edinburgh

Practice areas

Pensions

What to know

Apprentices join the Pensions Technical Team on the Level 4 Actuarial Technician standard with BPP; a September 2026 intake was recruited in the previous cycle.

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