Cybersecurity Consulting Graduate Programme - September 2026 intake

Are you ready to shape your future with confidence? 

Whether you’re graduating soon, recently graduated, or starting out as a junior consultant, you won’t just find opportunities here, you will shape them. 

1. Why start your career in EY Cybersecurity Consulting? 

Consulting at EY goes beyond what many people traditionally associate with a Big 4 firm. As part of our Consulting team, you’ll work with organisations to solve complex business and technology challenges, helping them grow, transform, and adapt in a rapidly changing world. 

At EY, a career in Cybersecurity Consulting is just the beginning. From day one, you’ll have the opportunity to build a career as unique as you are, supported by EY’s global scale, inclusive culture and innovative, technology-enabled environment. You’ll be encouraged to bring your ideas, curiosity and perspective as you help organisations strengthen cyber resilience, protect critical assets, respond to evolving threats and build greater trust in the digital world. 

If you’re motivated, eager to learn, and ready to take your first step into consulting, we’d love to hear from you. 

Start earlier. Grow faster. 

From day one, you’ll work on real client challenges as part of teams delivering meaningful outcomes. You’ll help organisations respond to cyber threats, strengthen resilience, improve security controls and navigate regulatory expectations, seeing the impact of your work firsthand, faster than in most traditional career paths. 

Build real experience, not just skills. 

You’ll work across industries, clients and projects, gaining exposure to a broad range of cyber security and resilience topics, from cyber strategy and transformation to data protection, resilience and threat management. You’ll build practical experience in how organisations use technology, data and sound governance to strengthen security and support confident decision-making. 

Accelerate your career. 

With early responsibility, hands-on experience and structured development, you’ll build confidence and capability quickly. Supported by experienced teams and continuous learning, you’ll develop the technical, analytical and consulting skills needed to help clients strengthen cyber resilience, improve governance and respond effectively to evolving risks. 

Be yourself. Make it matter. 

The best workplaces are those where you can be yourself. That’s why our teams place a big focus on inclusivity. We’re always open to challenge and change – and we know we can always be better. You’ll play a big part in building a better working world for us and our clients – pushing us into a future we can be proud of.  

A training path to support you. 

From day one, you’ll combine real client work with structured development, building your technical and consulting skills across cyber security, resilience, controls, data protection and regulatory topics. You’ll also have the opportunity to work towards relevant professional qualifications while gaining hands-on experience on client projects. 

Our approach combines work and structured learning, including classroom sessions, online training and self‑study. Balancing study with project work can be challenging, but you’ll be supported throughout. You’ll learn alongside your cohort, building strong relationships, while experienced teams guide you at every step. 

2. EY Cybersecurity Consulting - Programme overview 

Helping clients understand, manage and strengthen cyber risk, resilience and trust. 

We support our clients to understand and manage their cyber security risk, secure their data and systems, detect and manage their threats and vulnerabilities, and embed operational resilience. As part of the Technology Consulting team, we help organisations tackle their many security challenges, support risk-based decision making, bolster data security and cyber defences, and strengthen their ability to recover from incidents. 

Additionally, we help our clients embed core regulatory requirements across operational and technology resilience, including implementing resilience programmes, performing scenario testing, conducting crisis simulations, and support across lines of defence to help firms comply with the regulations and embed resilience by design. Moreover, we help clients reduce the costs associated with managing security and resilience risks, thereby enhancing their overall risk posture.   

Key programme facts 

• Programme length: 2 years (Permanent contract) 

• Professional qualification: Specialised training and certification in your chosen area 

• Salary: Competitive 

• Start date: September 2026 

What you will be doing 

• Develop your people, communication and consulting skills while working on challenging client projects 

• Support clients in addressing security challenges, strengthening cyber defences and making risk-informed decisions 

• Work with experienced cyber security leaders across a range of domains and contribute to innovation-led client delivery 

• Contribute to resilience programmes, scenario testing, crisis simulations and broader regulatory and compliance initiatives 

• Work across a portfolio of clients in a hybrid environment, including time at client sites, in the EY office and from home, depending on project requirements 

• Help clients strengthen their overall security and resilience posture while reducing the cost and complexity of managing cyber risk 

3. What we’re looking for 

We’re looking for people who are curious, collaborative and ready to learn quickly in a consulting environment: 

• A degree or equivalent experience in any field, together with an interest in cyber security, technology, business or transformation 

• Up to two years of experience through internships, university projects or entry-level roles is helpful, but not essential 

• Strong analytical thinking, problem-solving ability and attention to detail 

• The ability to communicate clearly and confidently with both technical and non-technical stakeholders 

• A collaborative mindset and an interest in working across teams, clients and industries 

• A proactive approach to learning, continuous improvement and building a long-term career in consulting 

4. What working at EY offers 

EY offers an attractive remuneration package to reward both personal and team performance. We are committed to being an inclusive employer and are happy to consider flexible working arrangements. In addition, but not limited to, our benefits include: 

• 13th salary 

• Provident Fund 

• Private Medical and Life Insurance 

• Flexible working arrangements (hybrid work and flexible work schedule) 

• Friday afternoon off 

• EY Tech MBA and EY MSc in Business Analytics 

• EY Badges - digital learning certificates 

• Paid Sick Leave 

• Paid Parental Leave 

• Yearly wellbeing days off 

• Maternity, Wedding and New Baby Gifts 

• EY Employee Assistance Program (EAP) (counselling, legal and financial consultation services) 

Join us in helping organisations manage cyber risk, protect critical data and systems, strengthen resilience and respond to evolving threats through technology and innovation.