Kick-start your Tesco career with a 10-week, paid internship. If you're studying at university and aiming for a 2:2, you can start your application now. Get real-world experience, use your expertise and learn on the job. And don't worry, you'll be offered guidance and feedback throughout. Plus, you may be offered a spot on our graduate scheme. No matter your degree, there's a scheme for you.
We offer our interns a competitive salary of £26,000 pro rata. You’ll get five days' holiday pro rata plus bank holidays.
We champion a flexible approach.
We champion a flexible approach, with hot desking, ample meeting rooms, and informal meeting spaces. The Welwyn Garden City campus also offers cool outdoor spaces, as well as ping pong tables and table football. In the office, you’ll get a laptop, supporting you to take advantage of our flexible working policy (so you can work remotely!).
We will support your learning with masterclasses, and in addition you will have the opportunity to learn from others and on-the-job.
Learn about our business
You have the chance to explore various teams across the business and discover a range of different opportunities. Connect with Tesco colleagues in an inclusive, friendly space where careers can really shine. And we know that moving from studying to the workplace can be a challenge so we have wellbeing resources that will help you settle right in.
Work on live projects
Our 10-week internships are full of opportunities to help us make every day a little better for our customers, colleagues and the planet. You’ll work on real-life projects and have the chance to make big impact, while learning from expert colleagues.
Skills to set you up for the future
During your internship, you’ll be encouraged and supported to tackle challenges to discover your passions and confidently voice your ideas. We want you to develop bags of new skills over ten weeks, that's why you'll be able to sign up to courses like Presenting with storytelling, Being inclusive at Tesco, Mastering feedback, Resilience and Building your network.
Our finance function impacts our 330,000+ colleagues and millions of our customers. You’ll learn how to solve unique business challenges with your financial expertise.
What you might do:
Our online function delivers a seamless online shopping experience for millions of customers. Your placement will be centred around developing and running our online operation. We work agile in Online, meaning we test, learn and move quickly. Some of our squads include Whoosh, Marketplace, F&F and Availability.
What you might do:
This internship will teach you to build supplier relationships and create new product lines. You’ll rotate through fresh and packaged food teams, gaining skills in negotiation and supplier management. Our roles are varied, it may not be just food you work on.
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Our supply chain team is a global operation, responsible for getting products from farms and factories to our customers. Your new role could analytical, ops or project-based.
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New for 2026, this internship brings together the best of general merchandise (stationery, books and more) and our F&F lifestyle brand (home & clothing). It’s about giving you a first insight into retail, working alongside great people, developing exciting products, and tackling real commercial challenges.
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Our Cyber Security team uses the latest technologies to increase visibility and protection of our systems, services, and data. You’ll use your skills to help protect our organisation, while learning about incident response, security platforms and cyber assurance.
What you might do:
You’ll be the voice of our customers, using your analytical skills to solve problems, define product roadmaps and bring our products to life. You’ll hold workshops with stakeholders, write user stories, collate data analysis feedback, and more.
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You’ll collaborate with tech and business teams across the business. Meeting the strategic goals of a project, managing plans and risks, and tracking progress with Software Engineers and Product Managers.
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Our Software Engineers continue to lead the way, building technology that can have a real impact on our customers. Learn to automate, safeguard data, and craft large systems using agile methods.
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Our Customer team is at the heart of building trusted and valued relationships with our customers. You’ll get involved in different elements of marketing, from brand strategy to customer loyalty. You'll gain knowledge of how customer data and insight fuels decision making and shape personalised customer relationships.
What you might do:
Our roles focus on putting our customers and communities at the heart of everything we do. You'll be given responsibilities early in the programme, spending time in-store to develop to become a Shift Leader. You'll even spend 2 weeks as a Shift Leader at the end of your programme.
What you might do:
We all have wellbeing needs and these are unique and personal to everyone. Looking after your wellbeing is extremely important to us in making sure you can be your best both at work and at home, this includes taking time to look after your mental health. We have a suite of resources for wellbeing offered to all colleagues. This ranges from mindfulness and resilience training to free fruit events for our colleagues. We also have support available for our colleagues from external organisations too.
