Start with your goal
Choose a route that matches what you want to achieve
Begin with a career direction, a capability gap or an organisational need. RDE will help you identify the most relevant next step.
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Start a digital career
Build foundations, professional behaviours and role-aligned evidence for realistic junior opportunities.
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Change or advance your career
Map transferable strengths, close priority gaps and develop evidence for your target direction.
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Build specialist capability
Develop deeper competence in business, data, projects, Agile, coding, security, marketing or quality.
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Develop a team
Discuss workforce training, commissioned programmes, employer challenges and partnership delivery.
Explore RDE academies
Develop connected skills across the digital workplace
RDE academies organise related programmes, tools, practical activities and career directions into clear subject families.
Business and Change
Business analysis, requirements, processes, stakeholders, change and digital transformation.
Projects and Agile
Project delivery, PMO, Scrum, product ownership, Agile leadership and delivery controls.
Data and Insight
Excel, SQL, Power BI, analytics, enterprise data, governance and evidence-led decisions.
Technology and Engineering
Coding, software engineering, quality, testing, DevOps, cloud and secure development.
Cybersecurity and Governance
Cyber awareness, operations, risk, compliance, privacy, incident response and resilience.
Digital Marketing and Enterprise
Content, SEO, campaigns, analytics, automation, freelance practice and digital business.
Featured programmes
Select breadth, depth or accelerated employment preparation
Current entry expectations, delivery arrangements, cohort availability and funding routes are confirmed before application or enrolment.
Virtual Mentoring Academy
Build broad digital capability through progressive learning, mentoring and practical development.
Business Analysis Academy
Develop requirements, stakeholder, process, change and Agile business-analysis capability.
Project Management Academy
Build project delivery, planning, PMO, governance and leadership capability.
Digital Employment Accelerator
Complete six intensive weeks of diagnostic, digital, project and employment-focused activity.
How RDE learning works
Move from direction to demonstrable capability
The exact pattern varies by programme, but learning remains connected to practice, feedback, evidence and career action.
- DiagnoseClarify goals, strengths, gaps, suitability and the most relevant pathway.
- LearnBuild knowledge through structured teaching, demonstrations and guided activities.
- PractiseApply tools and techniques to realistic workplace tasks and team scenarios.
- Produce evidenceCreate project, portfolio and professional outputs you can explain.
- ProgressUse mentoring, applications, interviews and aftercare to maintain momentum.
Live projects and portfolio experience
Practise how digital work is planned, delivered and reviewed
Where included, project activity helps learners work with roles, briefs, requirements, plans, risks, data, feedback and stakeholder expectations. The format may be a controlled simulation, an employer challenge or genuine work experience, depending on the programme and commissioning arrangements.
Funding and referral routes
Confirm the access route that applies to you
Programme access may include direct application, employer-sponsored training or approved commissioner and referral routes when available.
RDE confirms current eligibility, suitability, delivery, availability and funding arrangements before enrolment. Prices remain available through enquiry rather than public checkout during this launch phase.
Employers, partners and commissioners
Develop capability, contribute challenges and strengthen progression
Work with RDE on workforce development, commissioned training, referral pathways, practical challenges and employment-focused engagement.
What success looks like
Build evidence that makes progress visible
RDE records success through approved learner outputs and progression evidence. Published testimonials and outcome figures will be added only when consent, sources and review dates are confirmed.
Clearer direction
Role targets, capability gaps, learning priorities and realistic development actions.
Practical outputs
Project artefacts, dashboards, process work, plans, presentations or technical evidence.
Employment preparation
Portfolio organisation, CV and LinkedIn development, applications and interview examples.
RDE Digital Digest
Use practical knowledge to make better digital decisions
Explore clear guidance about digital roles, tools, skills, delivery practices and the changing world of work.
Take your next step
Tell us what you want to learn, change or achieve
Register your interest or contact RDE. We will explain current programmes, suitability, delivery and available access routes.