Everything here is free
Four tools and five pieces of research, none of which asks for an account, a card or an email address. They are built on the same thing: 12,914 live UK graduate adverts read straight from employers' own careers pages, counted rather than guessed at.
Tools
Things you do something with, rather than read.
CV checker
Upload your CV and see how an employer's screening software reads it — whether your columns, tables, text boxes, headers, images and fonts survive the parse.
Six checks on how the file is built, run on the file itself.
No account, no card, no email address.
CV skills checker
Paste your CV, pick your field or your exact job title, and see which of the skills those employers actually ask for it already names.
12,914 live adverts counted, 17 fields and 399 job titles.
Nothing is uploaded — the CV never leaves the browser.
Role guides
What a job actually involves day to day, how UK graduates get into it, what it pays and what people get wrong about it.
Written one role at a time, with live vacancy counts beside each.
Free to read, free to search.
Deadline tracker
Graduate scheme deadlines across nine sectors, with the ones closing soonest first and a link straight to each employer's own application page.
Taken from employers' own careers pages, not from a list we bought.
Free, and the apply links go to the employer, not to us.
What the adverts say
We hold the adverts, so where other people give an opinion we can give a count. Every figure on these pages carries the number of adverts behind it and the date it was taken.
The skills graduate employers ask for
Which skills appear in UK graduate adverts and how often, broken down by field, with what each one looks like written as evidence rather than claimed.
Counted 5 November 2026 from 12,914 live adverts.
Free to read and free to cite.
Graduate pay transparency
How many UK graduate adverts state a salary at all, which sectors hide it most, and what that means when you are deciding where to apply.
Counted across the whole live feed, with the sample size shown.
Free to read and free to cite.
Graduate salaries by sector
What the adverts that do state a salary actually say, sector by sector.
Advertised pay only — never a survey, never an estimate.
Free to read and free to cite.
Application advice
Cover letters with a worked example, CVs with no experience, assessment centres, psychometric tests, competency questions and what to ask them.
Each piece built on the same advert data as everything else here.
Free to read.
Still open right now
The graduate schemes that have not closed yet, for the point in the year when every list you can find is out of date.
Rebuilt from the live feed, not maintained by hand.
Free, with the apply links going to the employer.
For university careers services and teachers
You are welcome to link to any page on this site, and to quote any figure on it with attribution — that is what the counts are for. Nothing listed above is behind a signup, and none of it is going behind one.
What students pay for is separate and stated plainly: a weekly shortlist built for their CV, a tailored CV and cover letter per advert, and a browser extension that fills in the employer's application form. None of that is needed to use anything on this page.
If a figure here would be useful to you in another form — a different sector cut, a longer run of dates — ask, and we will run it.
What you get for applying through Gradovio
Matched to your CV
Up to 50 roles a week picked for what you studied and where you'll work, with a score for each.
A CV written for each advert
A tailored CV and cover letter against that specific job, plus answers to its application questions.
The form filled for you
The browser extension fills the application on the employer's own site. About 3 minutes instead of 30.