Data Analyst Degree Apprentice

ASCENT FLIGHT TRAINING (MANAGEMENT) LIMITED

Bristol (BS16 1FJ)

Closes in 26 days (Sunday 26 July 2026 at 11:59pm)

Posted on 30 June 2026

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Summary

Join Ascent Flight Training as a Data Analyst Apprentice and work alongside data professionals to collect, analyse, and interpret data, delivering insights that improve operational performance and student outcomes.  You will complete a degree-level apprenticeship while gaining real-world experience.

Wage

£18,000 a year

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There is a staggered yearly uplift in the salary. 

Training course
Digital and technology solutions professional (level 6)
Hours
Monday to Friday. Exact working pattern to be confirmed on appointment.

37 hours 30 minutes a week

Start date

Friday 4 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

As a Data Analyst Apprentice, you’ll learn how to:

  • Collect, cleanse and organise data from multiple internal systems
    Analyse datasets to identify trends, patterns, and performance issues
  • Produce dashboards, reports and visualisations for stakeholders
    Support data quality, governance, and documentation processes
  • Work with stakeholders to understand requirements and business questions
  • Use analytical tools and programming (e.g. Excel, SQL, Python, Power BI)
  • Present findings and recommendations to non-technical audiences
  • Contribute to continuous improvement and digital transformation initiatives

You’ll gain experience across different areas of the business, working alongside experienced professionals who will mentor and support you.

You will be able to:

  • Earn while you learn – no student debt
  • Work on exciting, real-world aviation projects
  • Get a recognised Level 4 qualification
  • Learn from industry experts
  • Build skills that are in demand in every industry
  • Have opportunities to progress your career after your apprenticeship

Where you'll work

220 Bristol Business Park
The Close
Bristol
BS16 1FJ

Training

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

Training provider

WESTON COLLEGE OF FURTHER AND HIGHER EDUCATION

Training course

Digital and technology solutions professional (level 6)

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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

  • Apprenticeship Standard BSc in Digital and Technology Solutions Level 6
  • University attendance 1 day/week at University Centre Weston (UCW)
  • UCW Assessor

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

  • or equivalent in English (grade 4/C or above)
  • or equivalent in Maths (grade 4/C or above)

A Level in:

  • or equivalent in any subject (grade C or above)
  • or equivalent in any subject (grade B or above)
  • or equivalent in any subject (grade B or above)

Desirable qualifications

A Level in:

or equivalent in Maths (grade C or above)

Level 4 Apprenticeship in:

Relevant Subject (grade Pass +)

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
  • Presentation skills
  • Administrative skills
  • Analytical skills
  • Logical
  • Team working
  • Initiative
  • Use of initiative
  • Interest in how projects work
  • Experience of Excel/data tools
  • Databases/data structures
  • Basic Programming
  • Data visualisation Tools

Other requirements

This role requires UK Government Security Clearance, so you must have lived in the UK for the last 5 years.

About this employer

Ascent Flight Training is a joint venture between Lockheed Martin and Babcock International, responsible for delivering the UK Military Flying Training System (UKMFTS). We train the next generation of Royal Air Force, Royal Navy, and Army pilots, using advanced aircraft, simulators, and training systems.

Joining the Ascent Business Intelligence team is a great opportunity to kick-start your career, giving you hands-on experience working with real data, modern tools like Power BI and cloud platforms, and the chance to contribute to projects that make a genuine impact across the business; as part of a supportive and forward-looking team, you’ll learn from experienced professionals, develop valuable skills in analytics, data engineering and emerging technologies, and follow a clear career path—all within an environment that encourages curiosity, fresh ideas, and continuous learning.

https://ascentflighttraining.com/ (opens in new tab)

Company benefits

  • Enhanced annual leave based on length of service
  • Private Medical Insurance
  • Pension up to 6% matched
  • Cycle to work Scheme
  • Electric Vehicle Scheme
  • Many more 

After this apprenticeship

Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay (opens in new tab).

  • The potential for a permanent position
  • Career progression into roles such as: Data Analyst, Business Intelligence Analyst, Data Scientist  

 

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

WESTON COLLEGE OF FURTHER AND HIGHER EDUCATION

Naomi Judge

Naomi.Judge@weston.ac.uk

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000039362.

Apply now

Closes in 26 days (Sunday 26 July 2026 at 11:59pm)