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Work with Makers to design training around your priorities - with the freedom to move quickly, tailor content, and choose formats that suit your organisation.

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Trusted by top companies to revolutionise their teams

  • Google
  • Deloitte Digital
  • monzo
  • Comparethemarket
  • Ford
  • HM Government
  • EY
  • Ovo energy
  • Aviva
  • Transport for London
  • Elsevier

Commercially-funded, explained

Custom-built for business impact

 

An alternative to the apprenticeships model, commercially-funded courses let you upskill your existing team or recruit new talent - flexibly, quickly, and tailored to you.

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ACCELERATOR PROGRAMMES

We recruit and train emerging talent according to your needs, and delpoy them straight into your team.

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SPONSORED BOOTCAMPS

Our flagship 16-week intensive bootcamp, funded by you. Reskill your people into your most in-demand roles.

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BESPOKE PROGRAMMES

Tailored to you, our other other commercially-funded programmes target a specific business challenge - from navigating AI to upskilling your leaders.

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flexible programmes to meet your needs

Commercially-funded programmes

  • AI UPSKILL

    AI Essentials Fast Track

    Upskill every team in AI.

    A high-impact, condensed version of our AI Essentials Apprenticeship, tailored to your team. We move your teams from curiosity to execution, building the practical confidence to automate workflows and reclaim hours of capacity.

    Duration
    4-6 months
    Price on request
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  • AI UPSKILL

    AI-Assisted Development

    Build AI-enabled engineering capability.

    Upskill your engineering team to effectively use AI code assistant tools, to boost productivity and accelerate delivery cycles.

    Duration
    3-10 days over 5 weeks
    Price on request
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  • AI UPSKILL

    Executive AI Offsite

    Capture the AI opportunity.

    In this one-day offsite, executive leaders will identify the highest value AI use cases, reset the company strategy to be AI-first, and build the infrastructure to deliver.

    Duration
    1 day offsite
    £1,500
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  • TECH RECRUIT

    Software Engineering Accelerator

    Recruit job-ready software engineers, fast.

    With our Recruit-Train-Deploy model, we recruit and train new talent according to your needs, then deploy them into your team on a contractual basis.

    Duration
    16 week bootcamp + 12 week placement
    Price on request
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  • TECH RECRUIT

    Cloud Engineering Accelerator

    Hire DevOps engineers ready to manage and automate the deployment lifecycle.

    We recruit and train new Cloud and DevOps specialists according to your needs, then deploy them into your team on a contractual basis.

    Duration
    16 week bootcamp + 12 week placement
    Price on request
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  • TECH RECRUIT

    Quality Engineering Accelerator

    Recuit QA engineers to drive quality with test-driven development.

    Using our Recruit-Train-Deploy model, we provide specialists who ensure your products are resilient, bug-free, and ready for high-scale deployment.

    Duration
    16 week bootcamp + 12 month placement
    Price on request
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  • LEADERSHIP UPSKILL

    Technical Leader Programme

    Develop your top engineers into exceptional technical leaders.

    Our Leaders programme is bespoke to your organisation, and uses Harvard Business School's MBA ‘case method’ to equip your key developers with the clarity, competence, and strategic acumen to drive impact across the business.

    Duration
    6-12 months
    Price on request
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    Tailored programmes

    Custom-built for specific business impact

    Commercially funded programmes are ideal when you need to move quickly, tailor learning to your organisation, or go beyond standardised apprenticeship frameworks.

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    Built for your reality

    Apprenticeships follow national standards; our commercial programs follow yours. We bake your specific tools, workflows, and codebase into the curriculum so your team doesn't just learn to code - they learn to ship your product.

    Unmatched retention rates

    Move at the pace of your business

    Without funding or compliance constraints, programmes can start sooner, run shorter, and adapt as priorities change - from pilots to full rollouts.

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    The floor is yours

    Outside of a regulated framework, we have the space to be creative. We work with you to design a program focused entirely on your goals - from a two-week "shot in the arm" for your tech team to a custom-built data academy. You define the outcome; we build the path to get there.

    Solve for your business Speed and flexibility Freedom to design

    Commercial Models

    Three ways to build your team

    Commercially funded programmes come in a few common shapes. We’ll help you decide what’s right - and design something bespoke if needed.

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    Sponsored bootcamps

    Our flagship bootcamp approach, funded by you. Typically 16 weeks, these programmes use the same intensive training model Makers is known for - tailored to your tech stack, roles, and future hiring needs.

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    Accelerator programmes

    Accelerator programmes

    Our Recruit–Train–Deploy model: high-potential talent, ready to ship. We handle the heavy lifting of recruitment and initial training, placing engineers into your teams who are already aligned with your workflows. It’s the low-risk way to scale your engineering capacity.

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    Bespoke programmes

    Bespoke programmes

    For everything that doesn’t fit in a box. From AI-readiness for leadership to targeted data upskilling for non-tech teams. We partner with you to architect a program around a specific business challenge.

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    The Makers Method

    What makes our approach different

    We partner closely with you to design and deliver training that fits your organisation - from initial discovery through to delivery and iteration.

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    Designed by practitioners

    Our programmes are shaped by people who’ve built and led teams - not solely curriculum designers. That keeps learning grounded in how organisations actually operate.

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    Mirror your environment

    Training shouldn't be a detour. We design our programmes to mirror the pace and pressure of a high-growth team. Whether it’s pair programming or prototyping, we ensure every hour spent learning translates directly into a win for your business.

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    Building "Learning Quotient"

    Beyond technical skills, we build confidence, judgement, and the ability to keep learning - so teams stay effective as technology and priorities change.

    Proven impact

    Deloitte - Accelerator case study

    In partnership with Deloitte, Makers provided a sustainable pipeline of 150+ ambitious, client-ready software engineers through our Accelerator Programme. 

    As Deloitte’s trusted talent partner for almost a decade, we have helped the client improve the diversity and retention of their tech team, whilst increasing hiring efficiency and success.

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    Success

    94% of contractors offered permanent contracts.

    Quality

    88% of Makers hires were promoted to consultant within 12 months.

    Diversity

    42% of Makers engineers are women.

    Proven impact

    The results speak for themselves

    Whether it’s data, AI, or leadership, we’ve partnered with a host of organisations both public and private to upskill their teams, from Nationwide to HM Government.

    85%

    Retention beyond 12 months.

    90%

    Promoted twice as fast as peers.

    30%

    Less expensive than hiring externally.

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