The Amazon Youth Promise launches in UK, offering 30,000 jobs to young people by 2030

Key takeaways

Amazon has launched The Amazon Youth Promise, committing 30,000 jobs to young people in the UK by 2030.
All roles start at more than £31,000 a year pro rata, with access to private medical insurance and a pension.
Amazon will also treble the number of work experience places it offers.

Amazon has launched The Amazon Youth Promise in the UK, one of the company's most comprehensive packages of support ever to help young people find work.

Amazon is committing 30,000 entry-level roles to young people from areas with the least opportunities from this year through 2030. The Youth Promise backs this with support designed to help young people before, during, and after the application process. This includes more than 10,000 work experience places, expanded programs to help young people who face the biggest barriers to work, new recruitment events tailored for young job seekers, and new guidance and support for every young person who applies.

There are around a million young people in the UK who are not in education, employment, or training, the highest rate in a decade. Many want to work but don't know where to start. The Youth Promise is designed to reach them, with jobs that don’t require a CV or prior work experience.

All roles start at more than £31,000 ($42,000) a year pro rata, with access to private medical insurance and a pension from day one. These are operational roles at the heart of Amazon’s network—picking, packing, and shipping millions of items to customers across the country. Amazon operates more than 100 sites across the UK.

Amazon FC worker in high-vis posing next in a fulfilment center.

“When I visit our sites, I meet young people who had no idea where to start six months ago,” said John Boumphrey, Amazon UK country manager. “They didn't have a CV. They didn't have experience. What they had was a positive attitude and a willingness to learn. For many, Amazon was their first step into work. The Youth Promise is about reaching and supporting more people like them, in the places where those first chances are hardest to find.”

Amazon will treble the number of UK work experience places it offers

In total, more than 10,000 young people will get work experience placements over the period, increasing from around 900 in 2026 to more than 3,000 a year by 2030. This will include more than 6,000 new places created as part of The Youth Promise.

Opportunities include one-week placements for school students and young people not in work, three-week online T Level team projects delivered live with Amazon employees, and 45-day T Level industry programs where students spend nine weeks working inside Amazon teams. More than a third of last year’s T Level industry placement students eligible for conversion went on to become Amazon apprentices.

These programs are delivered with partners including The King’s Trust, Media Trust, and Forces for Employment, alongside the recently announced Opening Shift program with the British Retail Consortium and the Department for Work and Pensions.

Amazon is expanding its pre-employment programs

For some young people, the route into work is made harder by a lack of experience, confidence, or access to the right support. Amazon is expanding its pre-employment programs, including the JOBS Project with Barnardo's, to support 2,000 young people from 2027 to 2030, helping them build confidence and practical skills to move into work.

“Our research shows that too many young people are being priced out of the opportunities that could change their lives,” said Lynn Perry, chief executive of Barnardo’s. “Through our JOBS program with Amazon, we have seen what happens when practical barriers are removed and young people get the support they need. Amazon's commitment to expand this program will help us ensure more young people can access the opportunities they need to thrive.”

Female Amazon Employee posing in a high-vis jacket at the fulfilment center.

Amazon helps more young people into work through its supported internships with DFN Project SEARCH than any other private employer in the UK. More than 300 young people with learning disabilities and autism have completed the program since 2021, with more than 80% moving into permanent employment—compared to a national rate of just 6% for adults with learning disabilities.

Earlier in 2026, Amazon committed to quadruple the program by 2030 supporting more than 1,000 young people into employment across more than 40 sites.

“We’re extremely proud of our partnership with Amazon and the transformational impact that these programs deliver,” said Amy Mitchell, interim CEO of DFN Project SEARCH. “Young people who arrive, perhaps lacking belief in themselves, leave the program with real skills and real confidence to secure a real job. Our program with Amazon are proof that businesses can offer supported employment at scale and their commitment to go further will open doors that have been closed to young people with learning disabilities for far too long.”

Amazon has signed up to the UK government’s Youth Guarantee and will work with the Department for Work and Pensions to expand the reach of these programs further in the years ahead.

Taking recruitment to the communities that need it most

Fulfilment centre employee in a high-vis jacket talking into a walkee-talkee outside a FC, with Amazon lorries in the background

The Youth Promise is not only about the number of opportunities available, but also about making sure that young people hear about them and can access them. Last year, Amazon held more than 180 recruitment events across the country, where young people could walk in without a CV or résumé, meet the team, and in many cases walk out with a job.

More than 2,800 people have started work over the past 12 months after attending events run in partnership with local Job centres, local authorities, and other partners. Amazon will expand the program in 2027, with new events tailored to young job seekers, working with the Department for Work and Pensions Youth Hubs. These will include new events in areas where young people face significant barriers into work, including Merseyside, Stoke-on-Trent, Greater Manchester, and South Yorkshire.

Every Amazon application should lead somewhere

Every young person aged 18 to 24 who applies for a role at Amazon and is unsuccessful will receive a follow-up email with practical guidance, links to organizations that offer free help finding work, and a direct link to reapply when the next roles open up for them.

“Applying for your first job can feel overwhelming, and too many young people get lost in the process,” said John Boumphrey, Amazon UK country manager. “Our commitment is that every young person who applies to Amazon gets something useful from the experience, whether that's the job, a work experience placement, or practical help to improve their chances next time.”

Young people preparing for their first job can also visit The Amazon Youth Promise page for practical tips on getting into work, videos showing what a day at Amazon actually looks like, and links to organizations that offer free support.

Last year, almost half of people who joined Amazon’s operations teams came straight from education or unemployment. For the first time, Amazon is making a public commitment that it will direct opportunities toward the people and communities that need them most.

Beyond operational roles, Amazon is also investing in technology skills for young people through AWS. The AWS Skills to Jobs Tech Alliance, launched in the UK in 2025, is working with universities, colleges, and education providers to give young people hands-on AI experience and connect them to employers, with a goal of preparing 100,000 learners with AI skills by 2030.

For more information on The Amazon Youth Promise, visit jobsatamazon.co.uk/youthpromise