The Level 4 Data Analyst apprenticeship (ST0118) for London employers: SQL, Power BI, Python and statistics, with the Microsoft PL-300 certification included as standard. £15,000 band, drawn from the levy, delivered live online to every London borough.
London runs on reporting. Banks and insurers in the City and Canary Wharf, the NHS trusts, the GLA and the boroughs, the agencies in Soho and the retailers on Oxford Street all employ people whose job is to turn data into decisions, and most of them learned Excel on the job and nothing after it. The Level 4 Data Analyst apprenticeship turns that person into someone who can write SQL against the warehouse, build a governed Power BI model, test a hypothesis in Python and explain the result to a director.
The funding is already yours. Levy-paying employers draw the £15,000 band from the Growth and Skills Levy account; non-levy employers pay 5% (£750) for apprentices aged 25 and over and nothing for those aged 16 to 24. Unused levy expires after 12 months, which is the usual reason a London finance director signs the first cohort off in a hurry.
Delivery is live online, so analysts across several London sites, or hybrid at home, join the same cohort without a day lost to travel. Closed cohorts of eight or more can run on site or on a 12-month accelerated timetable.
FP&A and MI analysts, risk and compliance reporting, treasury and operations teams building the models the regulators and the board read every month.
Informatics and performance teams working on waiting lists, theatre utilisation and population health dashboards, where a governed Power BI model replaces a dozen spreadsheets.
Performance, housing, revenues and benefits, and transport teams reporting to committees and to central government on a fixed calendar.
Trading, merchandising, CRM and marketing analysts who live in sales, stock and customer data and need SQL and statistics rather than another pivot table.
Campaign, audience and attribution analysts turning platform exports into something a client will act on.
Operations, pricing and resourcing analysts, and the people who build the dashboards partners run the practice from.
Skills England standard ST0118 v1.1, delivered by TESS as eleven modules across 18 months, then gateway and independent end-point assessment.
How data is collected, stored and governed; UK GDPR and data ethics; Excel done properly; SQL from first query to joins, aggregation and views against a real warehouse.
Data modelling, DAX, governed datasets and report design; the Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst (PL-300) exam is included as standard and sat during this phase.
Python with pandas for cleaning and analysis, descriptive and inferential statistics, forecasting, and Copilot and modern AI tools used responsibly on real data.
An end-to-end analysis for your business, presented to decision makers; portfolio completed; English and maths confirmed; the EPA project scoped with the assessor.
Full module list, qualifications and funding detail on the Data Analyst Level 4 programme page. Staff new to data start on the Level 3 Data Technician.
Interactive sessions on Teams or Zoom. Analysts join from their desk in the City, Stratford, Croydon or home. No travel, no venue.
Eight or more from one London employer: on site, blended, or the 12-month accelerated timetable. Same standard, same band.
Monthly one-to-one with a TESS skills coach, and Coachy, our AI tutor, between sessions for SQL, DAX and Python questions at any hour.
Yes. Any employer paying the Growth and Skills Levy (annual pay bill over £3 million) draws the £15,000 band from their account and pays nothing extra. Non-levy London employers pay 5% (£750) for apprentices aged 25 and over, and nothing for apprentices aged 16 to 24. TESS Group delivers live online to every London borough.
No. Apprenticeship training can be delivered by any Skills England approved provider in England. TESS delivers the Level 4 Data Analyst live online, so analysts in the City, Canary Wharf, the West End, Stratford, Croydon or a hybrid home desk join the same cohort without travel. Closed cohorts can run on site at your London offices.
Skills England standard ST0118: data collection and storage, SQL, Excel, Power BI, Python, statistics and forecasting, data governance and GDPR, and communicating findings to decision makers. TESS includes the Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst (PL-300) certification as standard, plus NCFE certificates in Data and Cyber Security Practices, and an AI-augmented analysis module using Copilot.
18 months of training plus end-point assessment, or a 12-month accelerated option for closed London employer cohorts. End-point assessment is a project with presentation and questioning plus a professional discussion, graded Fail, Pass, Merit or Distinction overall.
Existing staff who already answer questions with data: finance and FP&A analysts, marketing and CRM analysts, operations and logistics coordinators, HR and people analytics, NHS informatics teams, local authority performance teams, and junior BI analysts in fintech and professional services. New hires aged 16 and over are equally eligible.
130 providers are listed for this standard on gov.uk and 23 publish an achievement rate; the median is 69.1%. TESS is newer to the standard, so no rate is published yet; our employer and apprentice review bands are Good, our overall apprenticeship distinction rate is 72%, and PL-300 is included as standard where most providers make it optional or omit it. The full provider table is on our data apprenticeships page.
Pilot with one or two analysts, or enrol a cohort across your London operation. A 30-minute call covers eligibility, your levy position and the next start date.