Canary Wharf Group

CWG runs three early-career tracks from its student opportunities page:

• Graduate Programme: two to three years, rotational, across disciplines including real estate surveying, construction, accounting and finance, investment and technology, most tracks leading to a recognised professional accreditation
• Internship Programme: six weeks, paid, open to first-year through master's-level students
• Apprenticeship Programme: Level 2 to Level 6, one day a week of study alongside four days on the job

Each track targets a different academic stage rather than competing for the same applicant pool, so eligibility, not preference, usually decides which one is open to a given candidate at a given time.

CWG's careers page states it will "consider" visa sponsorship for non-UK nationals who already have the right to work in the UK, but that it prioritises candidates from its local community or with existing permanent UK work authorisation; sponsoring a new international hire is described as something done only "in exceptional circumstances" and "not guaranteed." CWG separately appears on the UK government's register of licensed visa sponsors, rated A on the Skilled Worker route, confirming it can sponsor when it chooses to. For a student without existing UK work authorisation, that stated priority for local and already-authorised candidates means an early-career offer from CWG is unlikely to come with a visa attached; sponsorship here is the exception, not the plan of record.

Yes. Canary Wharf Group has 2 student and graduate roles open right now, in graduate jobs and apprenticeships.

Canary Wharf Group opened its graduate jobs on 7 Jul 2026 and its apprenticeships on 6 Jul 2026. Dates are when the firm posted each programme, or when we first saw it on the firm's careers site.

Canary Wharf Group has student and graduate roles open in London.

Applications to Canary Wharf Group go through the firm's own careers site, one application per posting, each expecting a CV and cover letter written for that role.