Technology Cyber & Security Summer Internship Programme 2026 Knutsford

Explore the world of Barclays as a Summer Intern

Spend 10 weeks diving into real projects, gaining hands-on experience, and shaping your future. You’ll receive full support, take on meaningful responsibilities, and build lasting connections—all while discovering what makes our culture unique.

If you're in your penultimate year and ready to grow, learn, and make an impact, this is your opportunity to belong and thrive.

Why the Cyber & Secruity Internship programme?

The Chief Security Office is all about keeping the bank, its clients, customers and colleagues safe. We’re here to protect the organisation from both external and internal threats, and every day presents new challenges. This is an exciting place to be: hackers constantly attempt to find new ways to threaten our security, and we never rest in learning new ways to prevent them. And those threats don’t just come from viruses and fraudsters. Our work also touches on issues such as terrorism, world events, and the impact of economic turbulence. As the world around us changes, we have to be prepared and ready to respond. All of which will make your work with us endlessly interesting and deeply significant.​

The Cyber & Security teams within our Chief Security Office range from Cyber & Physical Security to Resilience, Crisis Management, Security Operations and Intelligence and more. Everyone is focused on defending the bank. That might mean playing a proactive role, such as researching potential threats from hackers. Or it might mean a reactive role, such as responding to incidents that might challenge our security. Whatever your focus, you’ll partner with teams across the bank to minimise disruption and make sure that any affected services can recover quickly. We’re one of the strongest banks for Cyber Security, and this is your opportunity to learn from the best.​

To be considered for this opportunity,you must be in your penultimate or final year of university.

You’ll also bring a keen interest — or hands-on experience — in Cybersecurity or a technology-related field. Whether you're passionate about protecting systems or exploring the latest in tech innovation, you’re excited to be part of a space where digital resilience meets cutting-edge thinking.

The location for this role is indicated in the job title, and you will be based at that location. If you are successful in receiving a return offer to our graduate programme, your location will be the same as it was during your internship.

Applicants for this position will need the legal right to work in the UK on a full time basis from June 2026 to August 2026.This is not a role which we can offer sponsorship for at this time.

If you secure a place on our Internship Programme, and this subsequently leads to you receiving an offer for our Graduate Programme, the 2027 Graduate Programme is not one which we can offer sponsorship for at this time. Accordingly, to participate in the Graduate Programme, you would require having the legal right to work full time for the duration of that Programme (i.e. August 2027 to August 2029).

Working In Knutsford

Set in 64 acres of gardens and centred around the historic Radbroke Hall, our Knutsford campus blends heritage with innovation. We’re redeveloping the site into a world-class, sustainable workspace that fosters collaboration and wellbeing.

Colleagues enjoy a vibrant community with clubs and activities ranging from yoga and running to beekeeping and boardgames. We host family-friendly events—including our own Glastonbury-style festival—and are proud to support our local community.

With free shuttle buses from nearby transport hubs and onsite parking, getting here is easy too.

It is the policy of Barclays to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, alienage or citizenship status, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by law.

Purpose of the role

To support the day-to-day operations of the Chief Security Office, providing insights and expertise that help support the vision and mission of the business area.

Accountabilities

• Collaboration with experts across teams to help reduce risk, protect our customer and clients, and provide a world class service for our business.
• Identification of opportunities for us to improve and maximise agility and develop an agile and intelligence led approach to security delivery.
• Collaboration with cross-functional teams to support business projects and initiatives.
• Identification of opportunities for us to improve, and clearly articulating to drive positive change across the function.

Analyst Expectations

• To perform prescribed activities in a timely manner and to a high standard consistently driving continuous improvement.
• Requires in-depth technical knowledge and experience in their assigned area of expertise
• Thorough understanding of the underlying principles and concepts within the area of expertise
• They lead and supervise a team, guiding and supporting professional development, allocating work requirements and coordinating team resources.
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.
• OR for an individual contributor, they develop technical expertise in work area, acting as an advisor where appropriate.
• Will have an impact on the work of related teams within the area.
• Partner with other functions and business areas.
• Takes responsibility for end results of a team’s operational processing and activities.
• Escalate breaches of policies / procedure appropriately.
• Take responsibility for embedding new policies/ procedures adopted due to risk mitigation.
• Advise and influence decision making within own area of expertise.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work you own or contribute to. Deliver your work and areas of responsibility in line with relevant rules, regulation and codes of conduct.
• Maintain and continually build an understanding of how own sub-function integrates with function, alongside knowledge of the organisations products, services and processes within the function.
• Demonstrate understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
• Make evaluative judgements based on the analysis of factual information, paying attention to detail.
• Resolve problems by identifying and selecting solutions through the application of acquired technical experience and will be guided by precedents.
• Guide and persuade team members and communicate complex / sensitive information.
• Act as contact point for stakeholders outside of the immediate function, while building a network of contacts outside team and external to the organisation.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.