Industrial Placement 2025 - Software Developer

Job Introduction

The Met Office is delighted to open our advertising for a number of Industrial Placements, which will commence from July 2025 until July 2026.

We’re looking for two exceptional Industrial Placement Software Developer to help us make a difference to our planet. 
 
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Met Office on a 12-month Year in Industry placement, developing your skills and knowledge and ensuring you gain the most value possible from your experience with us. You will have the opportunity to network with our cohort of Industrial Placements all over the Met Office and understand what career opportunities we can offer you after you graduate.

Your world of expertise 
 
Our Industrial Placement scheme offers ambitious and capable undergraduates the opportunity to gain valuable experience working alongside diverse and highly skilled experts in their field. You’ll be working on projects that really matter and will make a difference.

This is an exciting opportunity to join an area of Technology who are working to deliver the next generation of products and services that the support the global aviation industry.

The Met Office is one of two World Area Forecast Centres, which are responsible for issuing weather information to every flight that takes off across the globe.

On your Industrial Placement in Transport, you will have space to learn and work in an Agile team. You will work together to understand, design and deliver visualisation tools and data applications to meet the needs of our customers.

This is a fantastic opportunity to build and maintain services that support safety critical decision making on a global scale.

World changing work 

From science to technology, from meteorology to management, and from planning to communication, our expertise helps us stand out as the authority on weather accuracy and climate prediction. We help individuals, industries and government to make better decisions to stay safe and thrive. This is the Met Office. This is who we are. 

• We’re a force for good - focusing on our environmental and social impact
• We’re experts by nature - always learning and developing to do things better
• We live and breathe it - putting our purpose at the heart of decision-making
• We’re better together - understanding partnerships and inclusivity make us greater
• We keep evolving - pushing boundaries to make tomorrow better for our customers

Your key duties 

As an Industrial Placement Software Developer, you will:

• Work in an Agile development team to deliver user value
• Build your knowledge of software development practices 
• Learn and develop skills in different types of testing
• Develop an awareness of information security and system design

Why join us 

Our work is life-changing, often life-saving and always life-enhancing. The Met Office is accredited as a 'Great Place to Work UK 2023' and in addition has achieved a place on both the UK's 'Best Workplaces in Tech' and 'Best Workplaces for Women' lists. 

Whilst this is a temporary position until July 2026, there is potential for it to develop into an opportunity to join our Graduate Development scheme once you have completed your University studies.
 Your package includes:

• Your salary will be £25,606
• Annual Leave starting at 27.5 days 
• Access to discounted shopping, inclusive of retail, leisure and lifestyle brands

This opportunity is full time, 37 hours per week.  Our people are at the heart of what we do and we'll do our best to agree a working pattern that works for everyone. 

Additionally, the job may be suitable for hybrid working, which is where an employee works part of the week in the office and part of the week from home. This is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement and the location advertised will be your contractual place of work. 

Essential Criteria:

1. Modern Standards and approaches: You can demonstrate your learning to date and how you keep abreast of developments in technology or the environment. You are aware of modern approaches, such as Agile, Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (We Keep Evolving).
2. Programming and build (software engineering): You can demonstrate your experience of designing, coding and testing simple software programs or scripts. We typically deploy Python or Java applications onto cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) (We’re expert by nature).
3. We’re Better Together:  Communication is an important part of your role; you can demonstrate evidence of teamwork and how your contributions have made a difference to the outcome.

How to apply 

If you share our values, we’d love to hear from you! Click apply to begin your application. Please complete your career history and provide evidence against each of the essential criteria in the supporting statement questionnaire. 

We recommend candidates use the CARL (Context, Action, Result and Learning) method the help best demonstrate your experience and skills. When providing examples, you should include the context of the example, The action you took, what the result was and any learning you took from this example.

Closing Date: 08/01/2025 at 23:59. Please note we often receive a high volume of applications, but we will contact everyone who applies once the closing date as past.  Interviews will be completed by 25/02/2025. 

For additional guidance on our recruitment process and how to apply please look at our approach to recruitment page on our careers site.

How we can help 

If you have any questions or would like to discuss this opportunity further, please contact us at careers@metoffice.gov.uk.  

If you’re considering applying and need support to do so, please get in touch. You can request adjustments either within your application or by contacting us. Should you be offered an interview, please be aware there may be a selection exercise which could include a presentation, written test or a scenario-based activity. You can select in your application to be considered under the Disability Confident Scheme. To be invited to interview/assessment under this scheme, your application must meet the essential criteria for the role. 

We understand that great minds don’t always think alike and as an equal opportunities employer we welcome applications from those with all protected characteristics. We recruit on merit, fairness, and open competition in line with the Civil Service Code. 

We can only accept applications from those eligible to live and work in the UK - please refer to GOV.UK for information. We require Security clearance, for which you need to have resided in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years to be eligible. You will need to achieve full security clearance within your first 6 months with us.