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This is an exciting 12-month Year in Industry placement commencing at the start of July 2026, designed to develop your skills and knowledge and maximise your learning experience with us. You will have the opportunity to network with our cohort of Industrial Placements and understand the career opportunities available at the Met Office after you graduate.
Base pay range
The Met Office is delighted to open our advertising for Industrial Placements 2026. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.
Your world of expertise
Our Industrial Placement scheme offers ambitious and capable undergraduates the opportunity to gain valuable experience working alongside diverse and highly skilled experts in their field. Youll be working on projects that matter and will make a difference.
The Met Office purpose is to help people stay safe and thrive. The user-centred design team includes user researchers, interaction designers, content designers, service designers and accessibility specialists, working across the business to put the user at the heart of Met Office products and services.
The Industrial Placement for interaction design will work closely with the interaction and service design teams to support ensuring our products and services meet user needs. They will assist with discovering the best ways for users to interact with our products, identifying user issues and generating multiple solutions to problems.
They will be involved in activities to enable the user-centred design team, including maintaining design systems and guidance documentation, providing support with user recruitment and testing, and advocating user-centred design across the business.
The Interaction Design Industrial Placement will:
* provide support for user-centred design teams including user recruitment, note taking, documenting design decisions, maintaining design systems and guidance documentation
* be supported to work collaboratively with teams, understanding the importance of team dynamics, collaboration and feedback
* understand the importance of using data and evidence to make design decisions and use this information to collaboratively come up with solutions to problems
* recommend design decisions and be able to describe the reasoning behind them; follow direction to create prototypes to demonstrate and test potential solutions
* work in an open-minded and iterative way
* follow the Government Digital Service Standards and user-centred design best practice guidelines to ensure solutions are focused on user needs
* communicate effectively with technical and non-technical colleagues, supporting multidisciplinary discussions
* be an advocate for the UCD team within the Met Office and be able to explain why interaction design and user-centred design are important
* be part of the UCD community of practice and champion user-centred design
Our work
We are Great Place to Work UK certified and featured in their lists for Best Workplaces in Tech and Best Workplaces for Women. Our work aims to improve lives through life-changing, life-saving and life-enhancing solutions.
Your package includes:
* Your salary will be £27,170
* Annual Leave starting at 27.5 days
* Access to discounted shopping, inclusive of retail, leisure and lifestyle brands
Whilst this is a temporary position until July 2027, there may be opportunity to apply for our Graduate Development scheme upon completion of your university studies, subject to programme availability and successful application.
Essential Criteria, skills and experience:
* Lead Criteria: Awareness of prototyping and ability to explain what prototyping is, when to use it, and why; experience using design software (such as Figma).
* Evidence-based design: you are passionate about creating designs for digital products and using evidence to inform design decisions.
* Agile thinking: you understand the benefits of agile working and the roles in a multidisciplinary team; you are aligned with continual evolution and willing to iterate your work.
* User focus and advocacy: you can explain how user-centred practices build products that evolve with user needs and you are willing to champion a user-focused approach.
* Better together: you can communicate effectively with stakeholders and team members and present design decisions; you are an active member and advocate of the user-centred design community.
* Studying in digital design or similar.
The panel may perform a preliminary sift of the lead criteria as indicated above.
How to apply
If you share our values, we'd love to hear from you! Click apply to begin your application.
Please complete your career history and provide evidence against each of the essential criteria in the supporting statement questionnaire. We recommend candidates use the CARL method (Context, Action, Result and Learning) for presenting evidence of experience and skills. Please also look at the Early Careers Programmes Application Guidance at the bottom of this advert.
Closing date: 23:59 7th December 2025. We will contact everyone who applies after the closing date has passed.
Interviews will be completed by February 2026.
Using AI in your application
We welcome applications that use AI tools for support in drafting or refining, as long as they accurately reflect your own skills and experience. All hiring decisions are made by people, not AI. For more details, visit our approach to recruitment.
How we can help
If you have any questions or would like to discuss this opportunity further, please contact us at .
We understand that great minds don't always think alike and as an equal opportunities employer we welcome applications from all protected characteristics. We recruit on merit, fairness, and open competition in line with the Civil Service Code.
We can only accept applications from those eligible to live and work in the UK. You may need to have resided in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years to be eligible, with 2 years preceding your application, and you will need to obtain full security clearance within your first 6 months with us.
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