Helping solve the tech industry’s biggest problem.
With ever-increasing demand for a highly skilled digital workforce, alternative providers of digital skills training are playing a vital role in helping companies find the right people to grow their business.
For the first time ever, Upskill from Tech North brought together 16 leading Northern digital skills providers to help them scale and diversify the training they deliver to help them make an even bigger impact.
The programme connects participants with experts on government funding streams and qualifications, some of the UK’s largest employers of digital talent, and the nation’s most successful providers of digital skills training.
Our 2017 cohort...
Agent Academy
Location: Liverpool
Focused on educating and inspiring young people to work in creative and digital through intensive, industry-led training.
Coderspace
Location: Liverpool
A full-time, 13-week coding boot camp in Liverpool, covering Merseyside and the North West.
DMF Digital
Location: Sheffield
DMF Digital is an independent digital musician development company based in Sheffield.
FDisruptors
Location: Liverpool
An online platform delivering training, careers intelligence and content for young women, designed to get them into tech.
HAC100
Location: Manchester
HAC100 wants to increase digital making opportunities for young people across the region.
Hive Manchester
Location: Manchester
Coding competitions, clubs and hackdays for young people and adults in Greater Manchester.
IT Masterclasses
Location: Huddersfield
IT training delivered by industry experts, offering in-depth, technical experience in areas like cloud and infrastructure.
MadLab
Location: Manchester
A grassroots community innovation organisation based in Manchester, delivering courses and projects across digital and arts.
NewRedo
Location: Leeds
NewRedo hosts workshops in lean and agile software development.
Northcoders
Location: Manchester
Web development and software engineering bootcamp for the North. Learn to code in 12 weeks.
Peak.bi
Location: Manchester
Peak is an award-winning data analytics firm about to start training data scientists for industry.
SharpFutures
Location: Manchester
SharpFutures is a social enterprise that supports young people into employment in the creative and digital sectors.
Sparta Global
Location: Leeds
Sparta Global delivers graduate-level bootcamps to help young people in IT careers.
The Juice Academy
Location: Manchester
The UK’s first industry-led digital marketing apprenticeship, creating jobs for young people and filling an industry-wide skills gap.
The White Room
Location: Manchester
Creative and digital training company delivering apprenticeships and pre-employment training for young people.
Usercrunch (MWDA)
Location: Leeds
Web development apprenticeships and training based out of Leeds.