Experienced Hires

Whether you are returning to work after time raising a family, or looking for a career change, MI5 need your skills and experience to help keep the country safe. The breadth of opportunity at MI5 is second to none. Whether you are a corporate professional such as a lawyer or accountant, a specialist such as a psychologist, or an IT expert, we can offer you the opportunity to apply your skills in an equivalent MI5 role. Alternatively, you might seek to translate your skills and experience to one of our unique intelligence roles, using your interpersonal skills as an agent handler, or using your project management background to ensure the smooth running of a complex counter terrorism investigation. Experienced applicants may also choose to apply to one of our graduate development programs where, depending on performance, a successful applicant has the potential to be fast tracked to a more senior role. There is no such thing as a standard MI5 career path so if you're looking for a change in direction then MI5 has the potential to offer you a highly varied and stimulating career. And whatever job you find yourself in, you will be directly contributing to keeping the country safe.

MI5 is the United Kingdom's domestic counter-intelligence and security agency and is part of its intelligence machinery alongside the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) and Defence Intelligence (DI). MI5 is directed to protect British parliamentary democracy and economic interests, and counter terrorism and espionage within the UK.