Company details

London, UK

HEADCOUNT

10000+

ORG TYPE

Corporate

SECTOR

Energy & Climate

WEBSITE

https://www.edfenergy.com

About the company

EDF Energy supplies electricity and gas to homes and businesses in the UK and positions the business around “An Electric Britain” to improve affordability and sustainability. EDF Energy also operates and builds low-carbon generation, including wind, solar, and nuclear, with major nuclear projects linked to Hinkley Point C and Sizewell C. EDF’s 2025 progress update describes EDF as one of the UK’s largest energy service providers, supplying 3.7 million homes and businesses. EDF also offers services that support electrification, such as smart metering and solutions for heating and electric mobility.

Locations and presence

EDF Energy operates across the UK and Ireland, with roles spanning corporate offices (for example London, Bristol, Gloucester, Exeter, and Hove) and major operational sites such as nuclear power stations and new-build locations. Work setup varies by programme, with many industrial placements based on-site, and several graduate roles describing hybrid or flexible working while also noting that some locations expect 3–5 days per week in-office.

Palpable Score

79.7

/ 100

EDF Energy offers broad early-career access across apprenticeships, graduate schemes, and industrial placements, with unusually clear programme structure and support named in public materials. Hiring transparency is better than average thanks to published stages, key dates, and strengths-based assessment framing, although candidate-reported experiences still vary. The main limit is outcomes reporting, because public materials do not give consistent conversion, promotion-timeline, or retention metrics for early-career cohorts.

Pillar 1: Early-career access

Score

17.8

/ 20

The company markets a wide early-careers menu that explicitly includes Apprenticeships, Graduate programmes, and Industrial Placements on the EDF UK careers site.
EDF links early-career opportunities to major projects such as Hinkley Point C, where EDF states the construction project is working to create 1,000 apprenticeships.
The company’s published early careers brochure lists multiple apprenticeship pathways across technical and business areas, including degree-level routes (for example engineering and chemistry) as well as roles like DevOps.

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Pillar 2: Hiring fairness and transparency

Score

14.8

/ 20

The company publishes a structured recruitment journey for apprenticeships, including online strengths testing, a telephone interview, and an assessment centre or interview, plus campaign key dates.
EDF publishes a parallel graduate-process outline that adds role-specific testing (including a numerical reasoning test for graduates) and a video interview before an assessment centre or interview.
The company’s public candidate feedback shows process variability, including reports of gamified online assessment stages and mixed experiences of pacing and forgiveness of mistakes.

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Pillar 3: Learning and support

Score

17.5

/ 20

The company describes a specific apprentice induction sequence, including pre-start activities and a first-week outward bound course, followed by weeks of networking, scheme sessions, and team-building workshops.
EDF names concrete on-scheme support roles for apprentices, including a career manager (line manager), placement managers where rotations exist, and a buddy from a previous intake, plus a dedicated Early Careers Manager running training plans and performance management.
The company’s graduate roles repeatedly reference structured rotations plus mentoring, including chartership mentors and protected training time in science and engineering pathways.

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Pillar 4: Pay fairness and stability

Score

15.8

/ 20

The company posts clear salary numbers for early-career roles, including £35,000 starting salaries on several graduate programme listings and £37,500 on some nuclear engineering graduate roles.
EDF publishes pay and benefits detail for placements and early-career packages, including industrial placements advertised at £24,500 and benefits language that includes pension and a customisable benefits package.
The company does not consistently publish pay ranges across every role type, although some non-early-career postings include explicit salary ranges, which suggests partial but not universal transparency.

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Pillar 5: Early-career outcomes

Score

13.8

/ 20

The company ties some graduate schemes to potential long-term outcomes, including a nuclear engineering graduate role stating candidates may be selected for a permanent role after completing the programme.
EDF describes progression-oriented outcomes in nuclear new build hiring materials, including support toward chartership and statements that previous graduate cohorts moved into senior technical and leadership roles.
The company has positive early-career sentiment signals on large review platforms for interns and industrial placements, but EDF Energy does not publish cohort-wide outcomes like conversion rates, time-to-promotion, or retention by programme.

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