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Engineers of the future;

Employment after graduating

With the engineering sector making up nearly a fifth of the UK economy (19.6% of GDP) and employs over 4.5 million people, I have conducted some research into where the UKs engineering graduates are going once leaving University.

For the purpose of Subsea UK, I have focused on identifying the top graduate’s employers for the engineering Sector and the sub-discipline of engineering they end up in.

Firstly I identified engineering sector industries within Top 100 British Graduate Employers (2011) (Table 1), this information is based on any graduate being employed regardless of their degree discipline). We can see from this that there are 7 Engineering & Industrial companies and 8 Oil and Energy companies, are leading the industry in graduate employment. I would also like to highlight that the top 3 Oil and Energy companies within the list are of which are Subsea UK Members; BP, Shell and Centrica.

Looking at the Engineering UK 2011 report, it highlights a number of different areas which contribute to the current employment situation of engineering graduates and also provides an overview of how the engineering industry can move forward to combat this.

Within the report Graph 1 show graduate employment trends, according to SIC sector coding, (This can be found with the Engineering UK 2011 Report, Part 3: Engineering in Employment, p178-p186).

You can find the full report here: Engineering UK 2011 Report

By Kristian Chapman

Research Analyst

Graph 1

Table 1

Top 100 British Graduate Employers

The Times Top 100 Graduate Employers is based on research with 17,851 graduates who left UK universities in the summer of 2011. Last year's rankings are shown in red

Engineering & Industrial Oil and Energy

1 1 PwC
2 2 Deloitte
3 4 KPMG
4 5 Aldi
5 6 NHS
6 9 BBC*
7 7 Teach First
8 3 Civil Service
9 8 Accenture
10 10 Ernst & Young
11 28 John Lewis
12 16 HSBC
13 15 Goldman Sachs
14 17 Barclays
15 14 GlaxoSmithKline
16 18 BP
17 29 RBS Group
18 12 Procter & Gamble
19 19 IBM
20 13 Tesco
21 25 Google*
22 11 Army*
23 22 J.P. Morgan
24 27 Unilever
25 20 L’Oréal / 26 26 Rolls-Royce
27 21 Marks & Spencer
28 43 Barclays Capital
29 24 Allen & Overy
30 36 BAE Systems*
31 23 Shell
32 30 Lloyds Banking Group
33 32 Sainsbury's
34 40 Morgan Stanley
35 42 McKinsey & Company
36 37 Clifford Chance
37 46 Arup
38 54 Lidl
39 38 Cancer Research UK
40 48 Mars
41 45 Sky
42 50 Linklaters
43 80 Centrica
44 39 Slaughter and May
45 72 BT
46 44 UBS
47 59 ExxonMobil
48 31 Microsoft
49 47 Local Government
50 51 WPP / 51 75 Arcadia Group
52 65 Network Rail
53 New Apple*
54 33 MI5 The Security Service
55 67 Deutsche Bank*
56 74 Credit Suisse
57 77 Freshfields
58 49 Saatchi & Saatchi*
59 55 Citi
60 87 Jaguar Land Rover
61 52 Atkins
62 60 Boots
63 71 Oxfam
64 84 DLA Piper
65 35 Royal Navy
66 69 Balfour Beatty
67 82 Bain & Company
68 34 Police*
69 53 RAF*
70 62 Herbert Smith
71 79 McDonald's Restaurants
72 57 Foreign Office*
73 76 Airbus
74 56 Bank of America ML
75 58 Co-operative Group / 76 61 AstraZeneca
77 73 Boston Consulting Group
78 63 Transport for London
79 41 Asda
80 66 Bloomberg
81 68 Grant Thornton
82 81 EDF Energy
83 New Bank of England
84 95 Diageo
85 New Oliver Wyman
86 83 Kraft Foods
87 88 E.ON
88 New Savills
89 100 Santander
90 94 Penguin
91 86 Nestlé*
92 93 Sony
93 97 Baker & McKenzie
94 70 Ministry of Defence
95 New National Grid
96 New Simmons & Simmons
97 New Dstl
98 64 Nuclear Graduates
99 78 Hogan Lovells
100 90 npower

Employers marked * are not featured on the Top 100 site.