UK Summer Internship 2027 - Energy & Resources

About Baringa 

Baringa is a global consulting firm that partners with leaders to drive change and create value. With deep industry expertise, and enabled by advanced technology, the firm helps clients to deliver with greater confidence and certainty. With over 2,000 people across the UK, Europe, North America, Asia and Australia, the firm combines global insight with local understanding.

The firm works across energy and resources, financial services, government and public sector, consumer products and retail, pharmaceuticals and life sciences, manufacturing, and technology, media and telecoms, with capabilities spanning strategy, transformation and operational excellence - all powered by advanced technology, data, AI and digital innovation.

Clients value Baringa’s collaborative approach and the way its teams integrate seamlessly - all working with a shared understanding of what matters most. The firm is known for its kind, curious experts who listen closely and care deeply about client success as they help clients transform energy markets, modernise financial platforms, expand telecoms and digital networks through advanced data analytics, enable digital services in government, and unlock growth in consumer sectors.

Certified as a Great Place to Work around the world, Baringa has been recognised by the Financial Times in 22 categories of its UK Leading Management Consultants rankings, and by Forbes for four consecutive years as one of the World’s Best Management Consulting Firms.

Baringa is looking for talented 2027 Summer Interns to join our Energy & Resources teams!

Our Internship

Our eight week Summer Internship Programme is designed to give you hands-on experience, meaningful responsibility, and a true insight into life at Baringa. Over the course of the programme, you’ll work alongside experienced consultants and specialists on real projects, develop valuable skills through tailored learning opportunities, and build connections across the business. Whether you’re exploring your career options or looking to kick-start your professional journey, our internship offers a supportive environment where you can learn, grow, and make an impact.

What's in it for you?

Well, it’s up to you. Baringa is what you make it.

Our Summer Internship Programme is designed to help you build your skills, expand your network, and gain first-hand experience of consulting. As well as making a meaningful contribution from day one, you'll have the chance to explore future career opportunities at Baringa, including the opportunity to be considered for a permanent Analyst role after graduation.

Our Summer Internship opportunities are available across a range of our Energy & Resources business units. Explore the summaries below to learn more about each team and discover where your skills and interests could make an impact. You can also find additional information about each team on our website.

Our Energy & Resources teams:

Retail, Networks & Water

Our clients across the sector rely on our deep utilities industry experience, knowledge and insight coupled with a hands-on, pragmatic delivery approach to solve their challenges. We support our clients tackle their biggest challenges across the end to end value chain from Energy and Water supply and distribution through to end customer supporting clients with market reform, customer operations, net zero strategies in both domestic, SME and B2B and much more.

Desirable degrees: Business, Economics, Data Analytics.

Desirable skills: Problem solving, Passion, Curiosity, Good communication, Interest in Customer retail or energy and water infrastructure.

Commodities & Energy Trading

Our commodities and energy trading focused team operates across all major commodity and energy companies in Europe, the US and Singapore. From metals traders and miners, through oil majors, freight and shipping specialists to power and gas traders. Our people bring deep industry expertise to help our clients translate strategy into action, to enter new markets, build new trading capabilities, and to revolutionize their IT landscapes.

"From day one I have worked directly with clients on their complex trading transformation journeys. This has involved face-to-face engagement with our internationally based clients, visiting client site within weeks of starting at Baringa."

Desirable degrees: Engineering, Economics, Data Science.

Desirable skills: Problem solving, IT interest, Data skills, Interest in commodity markets, Personable.

Energy Products

We turn Baringa's deep energy market expertise into trusted data, insights and software products that our clients rely on as they navigate the energy transition. Our team create the market simulations and forecasts used by investors, developers, and utilities around the world to support strategic decision-making. We combine experts covering energy markets, data science, software development, and economics to create digestible data-led insight to our clients. Depending on your background you could be working with either our market research, modelling, or communications teams.

Desirable degrees: STEM subjects, Economics, Operational Research

Desirable skills: Interest in energy markets, comfortable handling large data and extracting insight for a wide audience, presentation and storytelling skills, programming (e.g. Python, SQL), using AI (for coding, for agentic workflows), experience using numerical models/simulation, interpersonal skills

Market & Transactions 

We help investors, developers, utilities, lenders and corporates make well-informed commercial decisions across the energy transition. We combine deep expertise in energy markets and infrastructure with strong commercial and transaction advisory capabilities. Our work ranges from market fundamentals analysis, power price forecasting and asset optimisation through to commercial strategy, M&A transactions, financing processes and investment due diligence. We work on some of the energy sector's most complex and high-profile challenges, helping clients deploy capital, manage risk and unlock value in rapidly evolving markets.

Successful candidates will combine analytical rigour and curiosity with a strong commercial mindset, and an interest in understanding how energy markets, investment decisions and business strategy intersect.

Desired degrees: Economics, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, Finance, Business/Management, Data Science, Statistics or Operational Research.

Desired skills: Commercial acumen and strategic thinking, Quantitative analysis, modelling and data interpretation, Structured problem-solving and critical thinking, Energy market and energy systems knowledge, Financial analysis and investment appraisal, Strong communication, stakeholder management and interpersonal skills, Ability to synthesise complex information into clear recommendations.

Economics, Policy, Regulation, and Commercial

We support clients from policy development to implementation, from regulatory strategies to business case submissions, and from competition cases to expert opinion. Our economists, policy specialists, regulatory experts and techno-economic modellers work alongside governments, regulators, investors and corporates - shaping the frameworks and decisions that underpin multi-billion-pound investment across energy, utilities and wider infrastructure.

Desired degrees: Economics, Public Policy, Politics/PPE, Econometrics, Statistics, Finance

Desired skills: Economic and quantitative analysis, written communication, structured problem-solving, policy & regulatory awareness, interpersonal skills.

Transition, Assets & Infrastructure

Our Transition, Assets & Infrastructure team helps energy, utilities and infrastructure organisations deliver complex transformation across the full asset asset lifecycle from capital programmes, asset management, operate and maintain and decommissioning.  We work with clients to develop their asset strategy, improve the performance of critical infrastructure, deliver large-scale capital investments, shape future operating models, and unlock value through technology, data and AI. Combining expertise in engineering, project delivery, operations, technology and business transformation, we help clients solve complex challenges and deliver lasting outcomes across asset-intensive industries.

Desirable degrees: STEM, Engineering, Data science.

Desirable skills: Problem solving, Curiosity & learning mindset, Strong communication skills, Analytical & structured thinking, Interest in Energy, Infrastructure & Technology.

Requirements

• Applicants should be in their penultimate year of their bachelor’s or master’s Degree studies.
• Applicants must have the permanent right to work in the UK now and in the future. All applicants will be asked for proof if invited to an assessment centre. Please note we’re unable to sponsor individuals for this opportunity.

 Any questions surrounding this please contact us at [email protected]

Key Dates

Application window closes: Monday 28th September 2026 at 12:00pm GMT

Assessment centres: w/c 30th November / 7th December

Internship start: Monday 5th July 2027

Internship end: Friday 27th August 2027

This is a paid full-time internship.

For further information, please read our Summer Internship 2027 pack

What a career at Baringa will give you

PuttingPeopleFirst. 

Diversity and Inclusion

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe that creating an environment where everyone feels a sense of belonging is central to our culture and that diversity is paramount to driving creativity, innovation, and value for our clients and for our people. 

An award-winning workplace

You can be a part of our ‘Great Place to Work’ - with our commitment to women and well-being in the workplace for all. Click here to see some of our recent awards and how we’ve achieved this. 

Using business as a force for good. 

We maintain high standards of environmental performance and transparency, which can be seen through our commitment to Net Zero with our SBTI-verified Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions reduction targets and our support of the Better Business Act. We report our progress publicly and ensure that we are also externally assessed and scored through organisations like CDP and EcoVadis - helping us to continually identify where we can improve. 

We have a long legacy of supporting the communities in which we work, and offer a variety of ways to contribute, by putting people first and creating impact that lasts. Our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) agenda is about giving back to the communities in which we live and work by sharing our skills, talent and time. In essence, we aim to empower and encourage everyone in the firm to contribute to the things we care about, and support registered charities and organisations with a clear social or environmental purpose to increase the positive impact they can have.

Join us

All applications received will be reviewed by a member of our Talent Acquisition team. We never rely solely on automated screening or AI tools to make hiring decisions. Your application will be considered for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, nationality, disability, age, faith or social background. We do not filter applications by university background and encourage those who have taken alternative educational and career paths to apply. We would like to actively encourage applications from those who identify with less represented and minority groups. We operate an inclusive recruitment process, ensuring reasonable adjustments where needed. Please contact a member of our Recruitment Team to discuss further.

Baringa Privacy Notices

For UK & EU

Your personal data will be retained by Baringa for up to two years, in accordance with our UK Recruitment Privacy Notice / EU Recruitment Privacy Notice, to evaluate your application and meet our legal and reporting obligations. In line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), you have the right to request access to, rectification, or erasure (subject to legal limitations) of your personal data. For more information, please contact us at [email protected]

For the USA

Your personal data may be retained by Baringa for up to two years, as outlined in our  Recruitment Privacy Notice (AMER & APAC), to support the recruitment process and internal reporting requirements. Where applicable, and in accordance with relevant federal and state laws, you may have the right to request access to or correction of your personal information. For further details, please contact [email protected]

For Australia & Singapore

Your personal data will be retained by Baringa for up to two years, in accordance with our Recruitment Privacy Notice (AMER & APAC), to assess your application and meet applicable reporting and legal obligations. In line with the Australian Privacy Act and Singapore’s Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA), you may have rights to access, correct, or request limited deletion of your personal data. For more information, please contact us at [email protected]