IT Business Analyst Apprenticeship

GKN AEROSPACE SERVICES LIMITED

Isle Of Wight (PO32 6RA)

Closes on Tuesday 10 February 2026

Posted on 10 December 2025

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Summary

An exciting opportunity for an IT Apprentice has become available at our world-class aerospace manufacturing facility in East Cowes, on the Isle of Wight. You will complete the Level 4 Business Analyst Apprenticeship Standard, and work across both our Osborne and Falcon Yard manufacturing facilities.

Wage

Competitive

Competitive wage offered

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Competitive salary, increasing each year.

Training course
Business analyst (level 4)
Hours
Monday - Friday, Shifts to be confirmed.

37 hours a week

Start date

Thursday 3 September 2026

Duration

4 years

Positions available

1

Work

Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.

What you'll do at work

  • The broad purpose of this apprenticeship is to understand the needs of stakeholders and how these can be met through business change and digital solutions
  • Business Analysts are change professionals that help organisations deliver business and digital change successfully.
  • You will work with the site's IT Team to support the delivery of the organisation's business and digital changes that are needed
  • You will have a mixture of on the job and workshop training to meet the requirements of your apprenticeship standard

Where you'll work

Ferry Road
East Cowes
Isle Of Wight
PO32 6RA

Training

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

Training provider

QA LIMITED

Training course

Business analyst (level 4)

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What you'll learn

Course contents
  • Apply appropriate approaches to scope, plan and perform Business Analysis
  • Communicate effectively in a variety of situations with a range of stakeholders
  • Apply a range of structured investigation techniques to a business situation
  • Produce an outline definition of a business situation using an appropriate technique
  • Apply appropriate techniques to identify problems and opportunities within a business situation
  • Support the identification and presentation of proposed actions to stakeholders in order to gain agreement for further analysis activity
  • Apply appropriate techniques to analyse and document options and recommendations for change
  • Elicit process information from stakeholders
  • Model business processes using relevant techniques, standards, notation and software tools
  • Analyse business process models to identify opportunities for improvement
  • Produce models of redesigned business processes
  • Elicit requirements from stakeholders to identify business and user needs
  • Document clear functional and non-functional requirements in line with local standards
  • Analyse documented requirements to remove duplication, conflict and overlap
  • Prioritise requirements using an appropriate prioritisation approach
  • Validate requirements with stakeholders
  • Support the establishment of requirements traceability
  • Elicit business data needs from relevant sources
  • Support the development of simple data models using relevant techniques, standards, notation and software tools
  • Document current business situations to enable gap analysis and decision making
  • Support the development of models of future state business situations
  • Identify key differences between current and future business situations
  • Identify actions required to move from the current to future business situation
  • Define acceptance criteria for business and system changes
  • Support business acceptance of business and system changes
  • Apply relevant techniques to research and identify stakeholders
  • Analyse and document stakeholders' areas of interest and influence
  • Support the development of cost/benefit analysis for proposed business changes
  • Evaluate and document the key impacts on people, process, organisation, technology and information
  • Present information in a manner appropriate to the audience
  • Apply appropriate approaches to scope, plan and perform Business Analysis
  • Communicate effectively in a variety of situations with a range of stakeholders
  • Apply a range of structured investigation techniques to a business situation
  • Produce an outline definition of a business situation using an appropriate technique
  • Apply appropriate techniques to identify problems and opportunities within a business situation
  • Support the identification and presentation of proposed actions to stakeholders in order to gain agreement for further analysis activity
  • Apply appropriate techniques to analyse and document options and recommendations for change
  • Elicit process information from stakeholders
  • Model business processes using relevant techniques, standards, notation and software tools
  • Analyse business process models to identify opportunities for improvement
  • Produce models of redesigned business processes
  • Elicit requirements from stakeholders to identify business and user needs
  • Document clear functional and non-functional requirements in line with local standards
  • Analyse documented requirements to remove duplication, conflict and overlap
  • Prioritise requirements using an appropriate prioritisation approach
  • Validate requirements with stakeholders
  • Support the establishment of requirements traceability
  • Elicit business data needs from relevant sources
  • Support the development of simple data models using relevant techniques, standards, notation and software tools
  • Document current business situations to enable gap analysis and decision making
  • Support the development of models of future state business situations
  • Identify key differences between current and future business situations
  • Identify actions required to move from the current to future business situation
  • Define acceptance criteria for business and system changes
  • Support business acceptance of business and system changes
  • Apply relevant techniques to research and identify stakeholders
  • Analyse and document stakeholders' areas of interest and influence
  • Support the development of cost/benefit analysis for proposed business changes
  • Evaluate and document the key impacts on people, process, organisation, technology and information
  • Present information in a manner appropriate to the audience

Training schedule

You will work towards a nationally recognised Level 4 Apprenticeship certificate in Business Analyst, as well as gain professional recognition from BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT for Register of IT Technicians (RITTech) level 4

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

  • Computer Science (grade 4 and above (C and above))
  • English (grade 4 and above (C and above))
  • Maths (grade 4 and above (C and above))
  • two further GCSEs (grade 4 and above (C and above))

A Level in:

Maths, IT or Computer Science (grade C or above)

T Level in:

Digital (grade Pass or above)

Other in:

Related subject (grade Pass or above)

Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.

Skills

  • Communication skills
  • IT skills
  • Attention to detail
  • Organisation skills
  • Problem solving skills
  • Administrative skills
  • Number skills
  • Analytical skills
  • Logical
  • Team working
  • Initiative
  • Patience

Other requirements

PLEASE ALSO NOTE the position requires UK National Security Vetting (UKNSV) Security clearance (SC) due to the nature and responsibilities of the work carried out. In order for us to obtain an SC you usually need to have been resident in the UK for a minimum of 5 years to current date (but we do assess each case individually)

About this employer

Fantastic challenges. Amazing opportunities. GKN Aerospace is reimagining air travel: going further, faster and greener! Fuelled by great people whose expertise and creativity sets the standards in our industry, we’re inspired by the opportunities to innovate and break boundaries. We’re proud to play a part in protecting the world’s democracies. And we’re committed to putting sustainability at the centre of everything we do, opening up and protecting our planet. With over 16,000 employees across 38 manufacturing sites in 12 countries we serve over 90% of the world’s aircraft and engine manufacturers. There are no limits to where you can take your career. Together as “one GKN” we’re moving our business and industry forward developing technologies that rapidly decarbonise aircraft, and innovating to help build a new generation of planes that produce zero emissions.

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Company benefits

  • Company pension
  • Sickness benefits
  • Workwear and PPE provided and local and national discounts (including ferries)

After this apprenticeship

Once qualified, our IT Apprentice is then likely to move into one of the following career discipline:

  • Centre of Excellence (CoE) Architect – acts as a skilled and knowledgeable team member whose role is to provide the business global support and deliver best practices around the analysis and design of applications and solutions in line with the business requirements
  • Business Systems Architect – act as a skilled and knowledgeable team member whose role is to support the business and deliver best practice around the development and configuration of systems and solutions in line with business requirements

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The contact for this apprenticeship is:

QA LIMITED

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000004769.

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Closes on Tuesday 10 February 2026

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