General insurance · 2026-27 cycle

Zurich actuarial graduate scheme, internship, placement year, school leaver route and deadlines

A general insurer. The actuarial work is pricing and reserving on motor, home, commercial and speciality lines, where a policy usually runs for a year at a time. Every actuarial route we follow at Zurich 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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programmes: 0
open now: 3
opening soon: 2026-27
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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 Zurich has published

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Actuarial graduate scheme, life insurance and general insurance streams

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Graduate scheme

The window: Applications for our 2027 graduate programmes will be open from 14th September to 18th October 2026
Opens: 14 September 2026
Closes: 18 October 2026 (2026-27 cycle) Zurich's own graduate-schemes hub adds that some schemes may close sooner, depending on the number of applicants it receives.
Locations: not published
Practice areas: General insurance, Life insurance
What to know: Zurich runs life insurance and general insurance actuarial graduate programmes, each with its own page, and both state the same 2027 window. Apply early rather than to the closing date. The hub's card for the life stream carries a badge reading not available in 2026 while that stream's own page states the 2027 window; the badge names the cycle just gone, and the hub asks you to read the stream pages to find out which are available. The general insurance stream asks for a 2:1 in a STEM subject or economics, an A in A-level Maths and 128 UCAS points, offers no visa sponsorship and requires three consecutive years of UK residence. No application link exists while the window is shut: the pages offer an early careers email address and a talent community signup, and Zurich's general vacancy search is a job board rather than this scheme's door, so read the stream pages again after 14 September 2026. Zurich's site answers automated reading with an Incapsula wall, so this row is hand-checked only.

Zurich careers page

Last checked: from the employer's page, 8 September 2026 · closing date from the employer's page, 8 September 2026 · checked by hand; last read 8 September 2026

Actuarial internships, ten-week summer programme

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Internship

The window: Applications for our 2027 internship programmes will be open from 14th September to 18th October 2026
Opens: 14 September 2026
Closes: 18 October 2026 (2026-27 cycle) Zurich's own internships hub adds that some schemes may close sooner, depending on the number of applicants it receives.
Locations: not published
Practice areas: General insurance, Life insurance
What to know: Zurich's own internships page offers a ten-week internship programme and a twelve-month industrial placement off the same actuarial page, in life insurance and general insurance streams with a page each; the placement is a row of its own here. For penultimate-year undergraduates, and the life stream is based in Swindon. Zurich publishes one dated window for every 2027 early-careers stream, so this is the same window its graduate programmes carry. No application link exists while the window is shut: the pages offer an early careers email address and a talent community signup. Zurich's site answers automated reading with an Incapsula wall, so this row is hand-checked only.

Zurich careers page

Last checked: from the employer's page, 8 September 2026 · closing date from the employer's page, 8 September 2026 · checked by hand; last read 8 September 2026

Actuarial twelve-month industrial placement

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Placement year

The window: Applications for our 2027 internship programmes will be open from 14th September to 18th October 2026
Opens: 14 September 2026
Closes: 18 October 2026 (2026-27 cycle) Zurich's own internships hub adds that some schemes may close sooner, depending on the number of applicants it receives.
Locations: not published
Practice areas: General insurance, Life insurance
What to know: Zurich's own words on the general insurance page are that it offers both a summer internship programme and a twelve-month industrial placement, so the placement lives on the same page as the internship and under the same published window, which is stated as covering its 2027 internship programmes. Life insurance and general insurance streams each have a page, and the life stream is based in Swindon. No application link exists while the window is shut: the pages offer an early careers email address and a talent community signup. Zurich's site answers automated reading with an Incapsula wall, so this row is hand-checked only.

Zurich careers page

Last checked: from the employer's page, 8 September 2026 · closing date from the employer's page, 8 September 2026 · checked by hand; last read 8 September 2026

Level 4 Actuarial Apprenticeship (Swindon)

No current dates

School leaver

The window: Applications are closed for our 2026 apprenticeships. Our next round of applications will open in February 2027.
Opens: February 2027
Closes: The employer has published no closing date for this route.
Locations: Swindon
Practice areas: General insurance
What to know: Zurich's own page states both halves in one sentence: applications are closed for the 2026 apprenticeships and the next round opens in February 2027. It is the Level 4 Actuarial Technician apprenticeship, typically 27 months, with the costs covered and study time given, and its apprentices are typically based in or within commutable distance of the Swindon office. The bar is three A-levels including Maths at A or A*, five GCSEs, and three consecutive years of UK residence. Zurich's site answers automated reading with an Incapsula wall served as an HTTP 200 (re-confirmed 9 September 2026), so this row is hand-checked only.

Zurich careers page

Last checked: from the employer's page, 9 September 2026 · checked by hand; last read 9 September 2026

What to do now

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