Recognising the UK's leading apprenticeship employers in 2025

Please note entries for the 2025 rankings are now closed.

The Sunday Times Top 100 Apprenticeship Employers celebrates the UK's outstanding apprenticeship employers – recognising their commitment to creating new apprenticeships, the diversity of their apprentices, and the number of apprentices who successfully complete their apprenticeships.

Entries for 2025 will be featured in The Sunday Times in the summer, showcasing the UK's top apprenticeship employers to the widest-possible audience of employers, school & college leavers, careers advisers and parents.

The rankings are entirely data-driven and the entry process has been designed to be simple and straightforward for apprenticeship employers to complete.

Every employer entering in 2025 will be ranked within their own industry or employment sector - for example '1st in hospitality', '3rd in manufacturing', '6th in accounting & professional services', '8th in public sector' or '11th in health & social care'.

And all employers will receive feedback on their entry, benchmarking their apprenticeship programmes with other entrants.

The prestigious annual rankings are researched and compiled by High Fliers Research, who independently assess and rank the country's top apprenticeship employers on behalf of The Sunday Times.