Graduate programmes
Enhancing your knowledge, stretching your skills and gaining real-world experience alongside some of the brightest minds in the industry
Search and apply
To find a suitable role, use our candidate matching tool below. Here you’ll find the position that’s right for you and be given the opportunity to apply.
Please note: You can apply to 1 bp early careers opportunity globally per academic year. If you make multiple applications within the same academic year, then we will only process the first application you make, and you’ll be withdrawn from any subsequent applications.
Clubs and societies
From football and volleyball to yoga and mindfulness sessions, you’ll find plenty of ways to mix with colleagues outside work.
Graduates
As a graduate, you can expect £37k to £48k per annum, depending on the business area you join.*
Wellbeing allowance
You can claim up to £1,500 for products and services that contribute to physical, mental, financial and social wellbeing.
Private medical insurance
We’ll pay for private healthcare, and you only pay an income tax charge.
Settling in allowance
As a graduate, you receive a minimum one-off £3k to £5k joining allowance.
Flexible benefits
You’ll have a flex allowance that you can use to change levels of cover or buy a range of extra benefits, such as a pension, critical illness, dental care, personal accident and travel insurance, childcare vouchers and our cycle to work scheme.
Share plan
You can choose to take part in our share plan and buy bp shares every month.
Supporting communities
We’ll encourage you to contribute to your local community. If you’re a full-time employee, we’ll match funding for your fundraising or volunteering efforts.
Who we are
Who we are defines what we stand for at bp. It builds on our best qualities and those things that are most important to us – our commitment to safety, to speaking up if something doesn’t seem right, compliance, care for others and working together as one integrated bp team.
- Safety comes first
- Make a positive impact
- Do the right thing
- Know the competition
- Keep improving
- Be accountable
- Be kind
- Prioritise the team
- Put yourself in other people's shoes
Seun
Biogas commercial analyst
Yulia
Process engineer
Priyanka
Information engineering security specialist
Zuhayr
Category buyer
Alexandra
Petrophysicist
Promise Ahante
I get really excited about …
“Our strategy. I always try to think about the work I do every day and how it contributes to getting us to where we want to get to, which is providing energy for today – and, not or, providing energy for the future as well.”
Our greatest strength is…
My simple pleasures are…
Jasmin Gill
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“Our values. This includes the Care for others pillar, which means putting yourself into other people’s shoes and making sure you’re always kind. This really embodies how it feels to work at bp every day.”
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Sophie Behrendsen
My simple pleasures are…
“The small benefits at bp. Like going for walks to the lake near the Sunbury office. It’s a great way to relax in between work and boost your mental health by being around nature."
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