2025 Economics Summer Internship

Our Summer Internship Programme gives you valuable insight into the FCA and financial services market and provides you with an opportunity for real responsibility while you're with us. As an Economics summer intern, you'll sit within the Economics Division, which provides rigorous economic thinking, research, analysis, and advice.,

• providing a rewarding environment, recognising that our people are motivated by meaningful work
• maintaining a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion, allowing people to develop and progress without barriers
• looking after the well-being of our people, ensuring that they are safe and well and appropriately cared for
• promoting an environment in which people are valued and respected
At the FCA you'll have the opportunity to make a difference. We offer all our summer interns: A competitive salary of £24,000 (pro-rata)
• A bespoke induction in the first week of the summer internship programme to introduce you to what we do at the FCA and our place in the Financial Services landscape
• Access to a skills training path to support you through your internship and beyond
• Completion of a financial services related project that benefits the local community, which you will present to a senior panel of judges towards the end of your internship
• Opportunity to hear from senior speakers across the business
• Lunch and learn sessions to widen your knowledge of the FCA divisions and their work
• Social opportunities to network and engage with your intern cohort
Join us and make a positive change in financial services - we look forward to receiving your application!

For the Economics Summer Internship, we ask is that you're in your penultimate year of study and on track to gain a 2:1 degree. To be eligible, you should be pursuing a degree in Economics, a mixed degree with at least 50% in economics, or studying a quantitative subject (like maths or statistics). Most importantly, we're looking for passion, integrity, ambition and aptitude. We want you to use and build upon the transferrable skills from your degree; working collaboratively and being strategically minded to solve problems and form judgements., Applicants must have obtained or be on track to achieve a minimum 2:1 degree from any university. Applicants for the 2025 summer internship must be in their penultimate year of study, with a graduation year of 2026.

As economists, we help the FCA deliver on its strategic objective of making financial services markets work well. For example, you may have conduct options and cost-benefit analysis to shape our policy decisions or contribute to economic research on strategically important issues facing financial markets. Whichever team you join, you'll be showing us your potential and we'll show you what a career in economics is really like. You'll experience first-hand the breadth and diversity of work we do here at the FCA and learn from the brightest minds in the industry through learning lunches and speaker sessions from our senior leaders. You'll also be paired with one of our current graduates to help you build your professional network. By the end of the programme you'll be able to decide whether a career as a professional economist is for you - and successful interns could be offered a place on our 2026 Economics Development Programme (EDP) graduate scheme at the end of the summer.