IT Degree Apprentice
Inpress Precision Ltd
LITTLEHAMPTON (BN17 7AU)
Closes on Friday 31 July 2026
Posted on 2 June 2026
Contents
Summary
Our degree apprentices are at the heart of our business. We would like you to join us if you have a strong passion for software development and technology to join our team. We are looking for an interest in AI, data or digital systems, whilst studying as a software engineer, to show curiosity about how systems, software or technology work.
- Wage
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£17,500 a year
- Training course
- Digital and technology solutions professional (level 6)
- Hours
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Monday - Friday 9.00am - 5.30pm.
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Tuesday 1 September 2026
- Duration
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4 years
- Positions available
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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
To support and innovate across the organisation’s IT, data, and digital systems by:
- Maintaining core IT infrastructure
- Developing automation and data workflows
- Supporting AI-driven initiatives (e.g. NOLOSS, sustainability tools)
Improving operational efficiency, data visibility, and decision-making - Any other tasks related to the role
- Assist in larger projects alongside day to day role, which will help with business growth and development
Where you'll work
1 HARWOOD IND ESTATE
HARWOOD ROAD
LITTLEHAMPTON
BN17 7AU
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICHESTER
Training course
Digital and technology solutions professional (level 6)
Understanding apprenticeship levels (opens in new tab)
What you'll learn
Course contents
- Analyse a business problem to identify the role of digital and technology solutions.
- Identify risks, determine mitigation strategies and opportunities for improvement in a digital and technology solutions project.
- Analyse a business problem in order to specify an appropriate digital and technology solution.
- Initiate, design, code, test and debug a software component for a digital and technology solution.
- Apply relevant standard processes, methods, techniques and tools. For example, ISO Standards, Waterfall, Agile in a digital and technology solution project.
- Manage digital and technology solutions projects. For example, identifying and resolving deviations from specification, applying appropriate Project Management methodologies.
- Work effectively within teams, leading on appropriate digital technology solution activities.
- Apply relevant organisational theories. For example, change management principles, marketing approaches, strategic practice, and IT service management to a digital and technology solutions project.
- Apply relevant security and resilience techniques to a digital and technology solution. For example, risk assessments, mitigation strategies.
- Initiate, design, implement and debug a data product for a digital and technology solution.
- Determine and use appropriate data analysis techniques. For example, Text, Statistical, Diagnostic or Predictive Analysis to assess a digital and technology solutions.
- Plan, design and manage simple computer networks with an overall focus on the services and capabilities that network infrastructure solutions enable in an organisational context.
- Report effectively to colleagues and stakeholders using the appropriate language and style, to meet the needs of the audience concerned.
- Research, investigate, and evaluate innovative technologies or approaches in the development of a digital and technology solution.
- Apply relevant legal, ethical, social and professional standards to a digital and technology solution.
- Identify and define software engineering problems that are non-routine and incompletely specified.
- Provide recommendations as to the most appropriate software engineering solution.
- Use appropriate analysis methods, approaches and techniques in software engineering projects to deliver an outcome that meets requirements.
- Implement software engineering projects using appropriate software engineering methods, approaches and techniques.
- Respond to changing priorities and problems arising within software engineering projects by making revised recommendations, and adapting plans as necessary, to fit the scenario being investigated.
- Determine, refine, adapt and use appropriate software engineering methods, approaches and techniques to evaluate software engineering project outcomes.
- Evaluate learning points arising from software engineering work undertaken on a project including use of methods, analysis undertaken, selection of approach and the outcome achieved, in order to identify both lessons learnt and recommendations for improvements to future projects.
- Extend and update software development knowledge with evidence from professional and academic sources by undertaking appropriate research to inform best practice and lead improvements in the organisation.
- Analyse client needs and determine how to advise them strategically through improved business processes, new ideas, or technology solutions.
- Effectively communicate value add to the client through a variety of media. For example, presentations, written reports, Storytelling in a professional setting through performing socio-technical process improvements in a range of environments.
- Make evidence based recommendations taking into account risks, costs, and benefits.
- Participate in walk-throughs for Information Technologies, to identify, document and evaluate key risks within a client’s organisation.
- Perform stakeholder analysis to identify, determine and deepen understanding of system requirements and develop client relationships.
- Effect change within an organisation through evaluation of a new system, process or initiative.
- Ensure legal and ethical requirements are accommodated in the development of digital and technology solutions.
- Evaluate the success of new systems, processes, or initiatives.
- Use requirements elicitation, analysis and documentation to produce an acceptable solution for business problems or further opportunities.
- Conduct Process Analysis, Definition, Mapping and Modelling within a business situation without supervision.
- Produce Use Cases which are of value to all stakeholders of a system.
- Use tools and benchmarking to support modelling and requirements gathering and recommend approaches to team members as required.
- Produce a business case to scope a proposed project including business benefits and recommendations.
- Use products of analysis in the design and development of a system.
- Evaluate the impacts of model selection and how they inter-relate with each other when generating business analytics.
- Recommend and use appropriate software tools to implement Business Analysis tasks and outcomes.
- Discover, identify and analyse security threats, attack techniques and vulnerabilities and recommend mitigation and security controls.
- Undertake security risk assessments for complex systems without direct supervision and propose a remediation strategy relevant to the context of the organisation.
- Recommend improvements to the cyber security approaches of an organisation based on research into future potential cyber threats and considering threat trends.
- Manage cyber security risk.
- Use appropriate cyber security technology, tools and techniques in relation to the risks identified.
- Lead cyber security awareness campaigns and evaluate their effectiveness.
- Analyse cyber security requirements against other design requirements for systems or products, identify conflicting requirements and recommend appropriate solutions with clear explanation of costs and benefits.
- Lead the design and build of systems in accordance with a security case to address organisational challenges.
- Define Data Requirements and perform Data Collection, Data Processing and Data Cleansing.
- Apply different types of Data Analysis, as appropriate, to drive improvements for specific business problems.
- Find, present, communicate and disseminate data analysis outputs effectively and with high impact through creative storytelling, tailoring the message for the audience. Visualise data to tell compelling and actionable narratives by using the best medium for each audience, such as charts, graphs and dashboards.
- Identify barriers to effective analysis encountered both by analysts and their stakeholders within data analysis projects.
- Apply a range of techniques for analysing quantitative data such as data mining, time series forecasting, algorithms, statistics and modelling techniques to identify and predict trends and patterns in data.
- Apply exploratory or confirmatory approaches to analysing data. Validate and and test stability of the results.
- Extract data from a range of sources. For example, databases, web services, open data.
- Analyse in detail large data sets, using a range of industry standard tools and data analysis methods.
- Identify and collate stakeholder needs in relation to computer network requirements, plans and designs.
- Plan, design, document, and develop the relevant elements of a computer network within an organisation or between organisations, taking into account customer requirements (performance, scale), constraints (budget, equipment availability), and define policies for their use.
- Monitor performance and ensure networks are configured correctly and perform as expected by designers or architects. Undertake capacity management and audit of IP addressing and hosted devices.
- Investigate, troubleshoot and resolve data network faults in local and wide area environments, using information from multiple sources, Physically or Remotely by console connection. Recommend and implement short term fixes to restore service and, or, quality of experience and recommend longer term changes to prevent recurrence or reduce impact of future occurrences.
- Implement computer networks from a design including testing and validation. This includes populating variables in configurations, for example, IP addresses and subsequent application of configuration to equipment such as routers, switches, firewalls.
- Secure network systems by establishing and enforcing policies, and defining and monitoring access. Support and administer firewall environments in line with IT security policy.
- Research and evaluate emerging network technologies and assess relevance to current network requirements. Provide an objective opinion on how new features and technologies may be incorporated as required by the organisation.
- Investigate security concerns or attacks. For example, Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS), port scanning, assessing key metrics and indicators, evidencing the chosen steps to mitigate.
- Analyse a business problem to identify the role of digital and technology solutions.
- Identify risks, determine mitigation strategies and opportunities for improvement in a digital and technology solutions project.
- Analyse a business problem in order to specify an appropriate digital and technology solution.
- Initiate, design, code, test and debug a software component for a digital and technology solution.
- Apply relevant standard processes, methods, techniques and tools. For example, ISO Standards, Waterfall, Agile in a digital and technology solution project.
- Manage digital and technology solutions projects. For example, identifying and resolving deviations from specification, applying appropriate Project Management methodologies.
- Work effectively within teams, leading on appropriate digital technology solution activities.
- Apply relevant organisational theories. For example, change management principles, marketing approaches, strategic practice, and IT service management to a digital and technology solutions project.
- Apply relevant security and resilience techniques to a digital and technology solution. For example, risk assessments, mitigation strategies.
- Initiate, design, implement and debug a data product for a digital and technology solution.
- Determine and use appropriate data analysis techniques. For example, Text, Statistical, Diagnostic or Predictive Analysis to assess a digital and technology solutions.
- Plan, design and manage simple computer networks with an overall focus on the services and capabilities that network infrastructure solutions enable in an organisational context.
- Report effectively to colleagues and stakeholders using the appropriate language and style, to meet the needs of the audience concerned.
- Research, investigate, and evaluate innovative technologies or approaches in the development of a digital and technology solution.
- Apply relevant legal, ethical, social and professional standards to a digital and technology solution.
Training schedule
- Digital and Technology Solutions Professional (Degree Level 6) Apprenticeship Standard
- BSc (Hons) Digital and Technology Solutions (Software Engineer)
- University of Chichester, West Sussex
- One day per week release from the organisation for university
- Functional skills if required
More training information
Modules are taught in two interactive workshop sessions, each lasting 2.5-3 hours. More information about the course can be found on The University of Chichester website.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4 and above)
- IT/Computer Science (grade 6 and above)
- Maths (grade 5 and above)
A Level in:
T Level in:
BTEC in:
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
- Organisation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Administrative skills
- Team working
- Non judgemental
Other requirements
To be eligible must have lived in the UK / EEA for 3 years, with over 50% of the time in the UK.
Must have right to work status.
Only applicants with a commute time of 1 hour or less will be considered, no relocation available.
About this employer
Inpress Precision is a family-owned business who manufacture and assemble technically refined, durable plastic, injection moulded and blow moulded products for the medical, health, and industrial markets. From our state-of-the-art 37,000 sq. feet facility in the UK, we manufacture high quality products to meet the needs of our broad client base in the UK and across the globe. Trusted by organisations such as the UK’s National Health Service (NHS), our four distinct product ranges comprise secure and safe containers including food-grade quality, plus we fabricate custom made, injection and blow moulding medical and industrial products with automated finishing and assembly to individual requirements.
https://inpress.info/ (opens in new tab)
Company benefits
Medicash - Level 1 Cover.
After this apprenticeship
- As a fast-growing SME, Inpress offers unique opportunities for development, where the successful applicant will have a great opportunity to develop their knowledge of the business and gain skills that relate to all aspects of the infrastructure. The candidate has the space to evolve and make the function their own
- The candidate would begin their journey in a supportive role that will develop as they further their career at Inpress, into a more tailored role further down the line
- We are particularly interested in candidates who enjoy problem solving and figuring things out - show initiative in learning technologies independantly - are curious about how technology can improve real world processes
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICHESTER
hr@inpress.info
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000034427.
Apply now
Closes on Friday 31 July 2026