Homes England Apprenticeship Programme 2025 - Associate Data Scientist

Homes England

Birmingham, Liverpool

Closes in 9 days (Thursday 10 July 2025)

Posted on 26 June 2025

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Summary

This apprenticeships allows you to complete an apprenticeship standard in your chosen profession through part time study, whilst working for Homes England and gaining real work experience. You will complete placements which are structured around the apprenticeship standard to help you gain the skills you need to complete the apprenticeship.

Wage

£30,378 a year

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Year 1 - £30,378, Year 2 - £31,897, Year 3 - £33,491, Year 4 - £35,166 and Year 5 - £36,925

Training course
Data scientist (integrated degree) (level 6)
Hours
Monday - Friday - 35 hours

35 hours a week

Start date

Monday 15 September 2025

Duration

3 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

Essential Criteria
• Either a degree in a maths or science subject, or demonstrable experience in statistics, data and analysis

• You will have a good understanding of statistics, such as distributions, hypothesis testing and regression. 

• Experience of or a willingness to learn coding languages, particularly sql and Python (including core data analysis libraries such as Pandas and NumPy).

• Experience creating engaging data narratives and visualisations to tell a story

• A curiosity around data, and desire to understand its completeness, quality, usability, and applicability to a business or policy area.

• A strong interest in continued learning, and the willingness to do this independently.

 

Desirable Criteria
• Understanding on the importance of data understanding, data cleansing, data manipulation and data translation

• An interest in the worlds of AI and machine learning 

• A dedication to the process of review and testing your ideas and your work (we use Git + Azure Dev Ops).

• A broad understanding of or interest in databases, data connectivity and APIs

• An appetite to learn about the housing and regeneration policy areas and industrial sectors, and how data can be used to deliver the Government’s missions in these areas.

Where you'll work

This apprenticeship is available in these locations:

  • 3 Arena Central, Bridge Street, Birmingham, B1 2AX
  • 1 Mann Island, Liverpool, L3 1BP

Training

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

College or training organisation

NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY-LONDON

Your training course

Data scientist (integrated degree) (level 6)

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What you'll learn

Course contents
  • Identify and clarify problems an organisation faces, and reformulate them into Data Science problems. Devise solutions and make decisions in context by seeking feedback from stakeholders. Apply scientific methods through experiment design, measurement, hypothesis testing and delivery of results.  Collaborate with colleagues to gather requirements.
  • Perform data engineering: create and handle datasets for analysis. Use tools and techniques to source, access, explore, profile, pipeline, combine, transform and store data, and apply governance (quality control, security, privacy) to data.
  • Identify and use an appropriate range of programming languages and tools for data manipulation, analysis, visualisation, and system integration. Select appropriate data structures and algorithms for the problem.  Develop reproducible analysis and robust code, working in accordance with software development standards, including security, accessibility, code quality and version control.
  • Use analysis and models to inform and improve organisational outcomes, building models and validating results with statistical testing: perform statistical analysis, correlation vs causation, feature selection and engineering, machine learning, optimisation, and simulations, using the appropriate techniques for the problem.
  • Implement data solutions, using relevant software engineering architectures and design patterns. Evaluate Cloud vs. on-premise deployment.  Determine the implicit and explicit value of data. Assess value for money and Return on Investment.  Scale a system up/out. Evaluate emerging trends and new approaches. Compare the pros and cons of software applications and techniques.
  • Find, present, communicate and disseminate outputs effectively and with high impact through creative storytelling, tailoring the message for the audience. Use the best medium for each audience, such as technical writing, reporting and dashboards.  Visualise data to tell compelling and actionable narratives.  Make recommendations to decision makers to contribute towards the achievement of organisation goals.
  • Develop and maintain collaborative relationships at strategic and operational levels, using methods of organisational empathy (human, organisation and technical) and build relationships through active listening and trust development.
  • Use project delivery techniques and tools appropriate to their Data Science project and organisation. Plan, organise and manage resources to successfully run a small Data Science project, achieve organisational goals and enable effective change.

Your training plan

You are resilient, self-motivated and comfortable diving into data environments, as well as learning coding techniques and languages such as Python. You will learn to apply your ideas and skills to supporting business delivery. You enjoy working in an innovative and engaging way while delivering high-quality data solutions.

 

We’re looking for people with a strong background in maths or data analysis, who are looking to move into Data Science. Note that individuals with a background or qualification directly in data science are unlikely to be eligible for the apprenticeship. 

The solutions we deliver should be reusable and scalable with a focus on consistency and maintainability. You will be able to review existing data science projects and improve them while thinking about resilience, efficiency and performance. As part of this you should have a desire to learn and explore new technologies.

 

 As an experienced Digital professional, you’ll understand how to manage relationships with colleagues and be able to demonstrate you can work with others as part of a team in a collaborative, inclusive way.

 

We are looking for the next generation of professionals to help us in key skills shortage areas. You will be an innovator who will bring fresh ideas, be commercially minded, a problem solver and a strong relationship builder. You will strive for excellence, embrace change and be curious about future possibilities.   

 

You will be motivated to make a difference and share and be passionate about our vision to effectively drive regeneration and housing delivery to create high-quality and home and thriving places. You’ll be pro-active about your own development.  

More training information

You will be learning from the Data Science team, supporting existing Data Science projects, and over time developing your own. You will also learn and contribute to the management, documentation and evaluation of data science projects.

 

You will be helping to grow our team of talented Data professionals, who are committed to making Homes England a Data-led organisation. To deliver this you will have opportunities to learn and utilise tools and technologies such as Azure Databricks, Computer Vision and Azure Machine Learning alongside languages such as PySpark, Python, R and SQL. As a Data Scientist you will also have opportunities to work alongside the engineering team developing our Azure Data Platform, and Data Analysts working to automate reporting and analysis visuals via PowerBI.

 

You will work with data colleagues collaboratively, taking an innovative and creative approach to data science. We value diversity in experience and perspective to foster good decision-making and problem solving within our team.

 

We are a team that prides itself on creating space to learn. There are exciting and ambitious projects to get involved with and this is an excellent opportunity to balance day-to-day delivery whilst providing an environment to learn and stay up to date with current tools and technologies. For more information about the role, please visit: https://ddat-capability-framework.service.gov.uk/role/data-scientist.

 

Please visit the university websites for the entry requirements: 

https://online.northeastern.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/NCH_Data_Science_Apprenticeship.pdf

Requirements

Essential qualifications

Degree in:

Maths or Science subject (grade n/a)

Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship 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
  • Creative
  • Initiative
  • Patience

About this company

Homes England : The Housing and Regeneration Agency We believe that affordable, quality homes in well-designed places are key to improving people’s lives. As the government’s housing and regeneration agency, we create thriving new places and transform urban areas, combining the full breadth of our powers, expertise, land, capital and influence to bring investment to communities and get more homes built. How? We form long-term partnerships that bridge the gap between the public and private sector to meet local needs and aspirations. We use our influence to champion the creation of sustainable homes, communities and places that are brilliantly designed for the people that live there now, and in the future. And we use our funding and support to build a more resilient, diverse and innovative housing sector, helping new entrants in the market, encouraging modern methods of construction and design, and promoting the utmost attention to building safety. Together with our partners, we’re accelerating the pace of house building, remediation and regeneration across the country, as we seek to deliver ever more affordable homes in places people are proud to call home for generations to come.

https://www.homesenglandcareers.com/about (opens in new tab)

Disability Confident

Disability Confident

A fair proportion of interviews for this apprenticeship will be offered to applicants with a disability or long-term health condition. This includes non-visible disabilities and conditions.

You can choose to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident scheme. You’ll need to meet the essential requirements to be considered for an interview.

After this apprenticeship

This is an opportunity to shape the future Data landscape in a fast growing, national organisation with real social purpose. Working within the Data and Analytics team, you will tackle complex data challenges, develop robust data solutions, and contribute to the advancement of data-driven decision-making across Homes England.

 

You will be learning from the Data Science team, supporting existing Data Science projects, and over time developing your own. You will also learn and contribute to the management, documentation and evaluation of data science projects.

 

You will be helping to grow our team of talented Data professionals, who are committed to making Homes England a Data-led organisation. To deliver this you will have opportunities to learn and utilise tools and technologies such as Azure Databricks, Computer Vision and Azure Machine Learning alongside languages such as PySpark, Python, R and SQL. As a Data Scientist you will also have opportunities to work alongside the engineering team developing our Azure Data Platform, and Data Analysts working to automate reporting and analysis visuals via PowerBI.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

Homes England

Recruitment Team

RecruitmentInfo@homesengland.gov.uk

03001234500

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000328444.

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Closes in 9 days (Thursday 10 July 2025)

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