Company details

London, UK

HEADCOUNT

10000+

ORG TYPE

Corporate

SECTOR

Finance

WEBSITE

https://www.aviva.com

About the company

Aviva is a diversified insurance, wealth, and retirement provider serving customers primarily in the UK, Ireland, and Canada. The company sells general insurance products (like home and motor), plus life, pensions, and wealth solutions. Aviva also operates an investment management arm through Aviva Investors. Aviva is a FTSE 100 company with a large customer base and a significant UK footprint.

Locations and presence

Aviva operates across the UK, Ireland, and Canada, and Aviva also references international investments in markets including India and China. Aviva’s “Smart Working” approach is hybrid, with a stated expectation that many roles spend at least 50% of time in the office, with flexibility depending on role and team needs.

Palpable Score

73.7

/ 100

Aviva is one of the clearer large employers for graduates because Aviva publishes structured graduate pathways and apprenticeships with permanent roles, salaries, and a defined two-year development programme. Aviva also shares concrete support mechanisms like induction, mentors, buddies, and an Early Careers Academy. The score is capped by limited published outcomes data and the added uncertainty that comes with large-scale integration and restructuring risk.

Pillar 1: Early-career access

Score

15.8

/ 20

The company runs multiple named graduate pathways (including areas like Accountancy, Actuarial, Data and Analytics, Claims, Pricing and Underwriting, Technology and Change, and Wealth) rather than relying only on ad hoc junior hiring.
Aviva offers apprenticeships as a parallel early-career route and positions apprenticeships as permanent roles with a central development programme in the first two years.
The company does not publish intake numbers or acceptance rates by pathway or location, which limits confidence about volume and consistency year to year.

Pillar 2: Hiring fairness and transparency

Score

14.8

/ 20

The company publishes a clear “application process” outline that includes screening, tests, interview formats (including group assessments), offer steps, and pre-employment screening checks.
Aviva states an explicit disability inclusion commitment that interviews every disabled applicant who meets the essential job criteria when candidates notify the recruiting team.
The company does not publish a single early-careers timeline for each pathway, and candidate-reported stage detail varies by role and location.

Pillar 3: Learning and support

Score

16.8

/ 20

The company describes a structured Early Careers Development Programme with a three-day in-person induction and quarterly development sessions that mix virtual and face-to-face learning.
Aviva commits to a “mentor and buddy from day one” model for graduates and apprentices, backed by a specialist Early Careers Development Team and cohort community support.
The company provides an always-on learning platform through an Early Careers Academy and adds structured moments like innovation challenges and a closing event, but role-by-role training detail still depends on the specific pathway.

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Pillar 4: Pay fairness and stability

Score

14.5

/ 20

The company publishes starting salaries on some pathway pages, for example a £33,200 salary on a graduate pathway page and a £25,100 starting salary for apprenticeships.
Aviva lists stable, employee-style benefits on the UK careers site such as paid leave policies, wellbeing resources, and family leave policies that apply regardless of gender identity or sexual orientation.
The company does not consistently publish salary ranges across every early-career route and geography, so pay transparency is strong in some UK early-career listings but uneven overall.

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Pillar 5: Early-career outcomes

Score

11.8

/ 20

The company positions graduates and apprentices as “permanent from day one,” which is a concrete stability signal compared with fixed-term schemes.
Aviva has mixed public employee sentiment on progression, with repeated themes around career growth not always moving quickly in large-company structures.
The company faces integration-related job-risk headlines tied to the Direct Line acquisition and Aviva does not publish early-career outcomes like promotion timelines, retention by cohort, or internship-to-offer conversion rates.

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