Savills

About Savills

Founded in the UK in 1855, Savills is one of the world's leading property agents. Our experience and expertise spans the globe, with 700 offices across 70 countries. Our scale gives us wide-ranging specialist and local knowledge, and we take pride in providing best-in-class advice as we help individuals, businesses and institutions make better property decisions.

Savills believes their graduates and apprentices are future leaders and make a huge investment into them. Savills’ future talent are given responsibility from day one, in teams who highly value their contribution and involvement in the world’s most high-profile property deals and developments. Our programmes offer graduates and apprentices the chance to gain internationally recognised Professional qualifications.

Our Future Talent are surrounded by expert professionals from whom they learn and seek advice. Savills gives graduates and apprentices flexibility to create a fulfilling and self-tailored career path. Savills are proud to be The Times Graduate Employer of Choice for Property for the 18th year running. Great work life balance and a dynamic working environment are amongst the factors which see Savills nominated as the leading Property employer year on year.

Savills take on 130+ permanent graduates each year and offer a range of pathways for their graduate programme, including:

• Surveying (RICS): Commercial, Residential/Development, Housing, Operational Capital Markets, Capital Allowances
• Rural (RICS): Rural Surveying, Food and Farming, Forestry, Infrastructure and Architectural Building Surveying
• Building Surveying (RICS)
• Savills Earth: Sustainable Design (IEMA), Engineering(CIBSE), Energy (AEE), Environmental Economics/Environment and Infrastructure (IEMA)
• Sustainability (IEMA)
• Planning (RTPI): Town Planning, Heritage Planning, Urban Design

We offer apprenticeships from Level 2 up to Level 7 (master’s degree apprenticeships) in 19 different industry sectors. Savills are proud to have been rated either 1st or 2nd in the Top 100 Employers in the Rate my Apprenticeship Awards 2022-2023, 2023-2024 and 2024-2025.

Apprenticeships on Offer:

• Level 2 Residential Sales (Junior Estate Agent)
• Level 2,3 & 4 Accounts
• Level 3 Business Administration
• Level 3 Business Development (Bid and Proposal)
• Level 4 Data Analytics
• Level 4 IT
• Level 4 Marketing
• Level 4 Sales Executive
• Level 5 Human Resources
• Level 6 Digital Design
• Level 6 Economist
• Level 6 Environmental Social Governance
• Level 6 Surveying (Degree)
• Level 6 & 7 Architectural design
• Level 7 Planning
• Level 7 Master’s Business Administration (MBA)

Savills offer placement opportunities for both aspiring apprentices and graduates. We have three centrally organised placement opportunities for graduate experience; insight week, summer scheme, and a sandwich placement year. We also offer two centrally organised placements for apprentice experience; the apprentice insight programme and the virtual apprentice insight programme.

The Savills Insight Programme is a paid, one week, internship for 1st year undergraduate students to provide a great work opportunity and to help us attract and nurture talent from diverse backgrounds.

Savills summer scheme is an opportunity for university students in the year before they will graduate (or start a masters) and be looking for a graduate role, to gain 6 week's paid work experience.

Sandwich placements are applicable for second year cognate students and are an excellent way to gain 12 months of APC experience in the property industry.

The Savills Apprenticeship Insight programme is open to students in their final year of their A Levels or who have recently completed their A Levels studies.

Finally we offer students to explore the dynamic world of real estate with Savills through our engaging Apprenticeship Virtual Insight Programme.