Junior Software Developer jobs in United Kingdom

At WSP, you can access our global scale, contribute to landmark projects and connect with the brightest minds in your field to do the best work of your life. You can embrace your curiosity in a culture that celebrates new ideas and diverse perspectives. You can experience a world of opportunity and the chance to shape a career as unique as you.

WSP is looking for an experienced Software Developer to join our industry‑leading Intelligent Infrastructure team. We provide technical professional services to transport clients throughout the UK and overseas to deliver tangible value through technology enabled change.

Join us and make a real‑world difference by helping to deliver crucial projects for public sector clients, such as using big data to help the DfT provide better rail services, helping road safety officers visualise accident data geospatially, or gathering vital transport planning data using AI‑enabled traffic cameras that distinguish and count the different modes of transport.

As a WSP Software Developer, you will play a key role in technical delivery while also leading tasks within a team to provide quality assurance, consultancy, and advisory services on client‑facing projects. In addition to challenging and stimulating projects, you will be able to access a range of benefits, including targeted professional development and training to help you grow and develop at WSP.

• Design and build software solutions using industry best practices, ensuring security and compliance.

• Scope, estimate, and take ownership of delivery for assigned tasks and projects, managing workload and dependencies to deliver within agreed timeframes.

• Engage with clients and stakeholders to understand their needs, capture requirements, and ensure a shared understanding of project objectives

• Perform quality assurance reviews of project documentation or consultancy deliverables, ensuring accuracy, clarity, and alignment with best practices and client requirements

• Help to support and maintain new and legacy software systems, ensuring timely and effective resolutions while maintaining clear communication with stakeholders.

• Provide consultancy and advisory services, guiding clients on best practices for cloud data architecture and software solutions

• Input to the continuous improvement of practice and standards within the team

• Maintain and develop your own expertise by staying current with emerging technologies, pursuing relevant certifications, and through continuous learning

• Coach and mentor junior colleagues, providing guidance, support, and constructive feedback to help them develop their skills and confidence

• This role sits within the Intelligent Infrastructure business and will form a key part of the growing Data, Architecture and Solutions Capability, which is our centre of excellence for digital skills. The Capability team provides a community of colleagues working in and around technology to help you deliver effectively and support your professional development through training, mentoring and opportunities to really stretch your capabilities.

• You’ll work as part of an Agile team with specialist developers, testers, analysts, and transport subject matter experts to design, develop, deliver and maintain software applications and systems using the latest technologies - including AI capabilities through our Microsoft partnership, to deliver innovative solutions across the property and infrastructure sectors and help to make people’s journeys greener, safer, cheaper, and faster.

• We operate a hybrid working policy and expect colleagues to spend time on client sites and collaborating with colleagues face‑to‑face, as well as working from a local office. We have offices across the UK.

• Experience with building enterprise‑level web applications or services, predominantly using ASP .Net and Azure supported by relevant certifications and qualifications. Experience working with Python would be extremely beneficial.

• Experience with secure development practices e.g. OWASP guidelines, identity and access management, secrets management, and basic threat modelling.

• Excellent analytical skills and a proven ability to think creatively to solve problems

• Experience of working in an Agile delivery team and developing and deploying applications using DevOps practises in a production environment through a CI/CD pipeline.

• Demonstrable experience of testing across e2e lifecycle, including ETL, Unit, Regression

• Excellent communications skills and experience working directly with clients and customers, to provide credible insights and guidance

• Expertise in carrying out quality assurance activities to ensure reliability and compliance

• Experience of providing guidance and applying best practices for cloud data architecture and software solutions

• A degree in an analytical discipline such as engineering, mathematics, computer science, economics, social sciences, or equivalent industry experience.

Join our close‑knit community of talented individuals who share your passion for making a positive impact. Our global team includes more than 69,000 employees, working together to make a difference in communities both close to home and around the world.

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We are one of the world’s leading engineering and professional services firms. Our 72,800 passionate people are united by the common purpose of creating positive, long‑lasting impacts on the communities we serve through a culture of innovation, integrity, and inclusion. With over 9,000 professionals across the UK and Ireland, we are dedicated to our local communities and propelled by international brainpower.

At WSP, we understand that work is just one aspect of your life. It’s important to make time for you, your family, friends, interests and your community.

Our hybrid working policy offers the flexibility to work from home two days a week, while also providing opportunities to collaborate in our modern offices across the UK.

We welcome applicants with varied backgrounds and experiences. We enable rewarding careers by encouraging people to bring their whole and authentic selves to work so that our work represents the fullest spectrum of society. We celebrate integrity and treat people with respect, supporting each other and embracing a culture of inclusion and belonging at WSP. We have our employee resource groups bring together employees and allies with different backgrounds to promote our culture of inclusivity.

We are committed to supporting our people, giving you the tools to make improvements to your health and wellbeing through our Thrive programme.

Our Virtual GP service gives you access to an NHS or Irish Medical Council GP at a time and place that suits you – giving you peace of mind and quick access to medical advice when you need it most. We also provide reasonable workplace adjustments for those in need. Additionally, you can benefit from the Gymflex scheme, which offers up to 40% off annual gym memberships through our WSP flexible benefits program, as well as a comprehensive menopause support package.

To enhance work‑life balance, WSP offers the “WSP My Hour,” allowing you to take one hour each day for personal activities, with the flexibility to make up the time earlier or later that day.

We also provide part‑time and flexible working arrangements, the option to purchase additional leave, and the ability to use your bank holiday entitlement to suit you.

We understand the importance of development and training to you. That’s why we foster a supportive environment that invests in your growth, whether through training, mentoring, or Chartership.

Here at WSP we positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy or maternity/paternity. As a Disability Confident leader, we will interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria, please let us know if you require any workplace adjustments in support of your application.