2025 Savills Graduate Programme

**Job title**

Graduate Rural Surveyor

**Start Date**

September 2025

**Job Location**

Inverness, Perth, Truro, Oxford, Norwich

**Salary**

£26,000 and £1,000 sign on bonus

**Current Team Information**

Savills Rural team operate at the forefront of dynamic and forward thinking land management. From a UK network of over 30 offices, from Inverness in the North to Truro in the South-West, our surveyors and rural professionals offer a range of advice to clients including traditional estate management, the preparation of farms and estates for sale, forestry management and investment, as well as consultancy services such as valuation or acting in the delivery of infrastructure projects.

Our wider services cover; architecture, building consultancy, rural planning, food and farming, renewable energy, energy brokerage, mapping and strategic projects, and we offer graduates a wide range of experience across the rural sector.

The Wider Rural and Projects Division covers many disciplines - click here to find out more.

**Rural areas include**:
**Working within **Estate Management, Rural Professional and Rural Agency

Click here to hear more about Rural Estate Management

Click here to hear more about Rural Valuation and Consultancy

**Locations**:
Inverness

Oxford

Truro - The Truro office are looking for a graduate to support the Rural & Projects team that operates throughout Cornwall. The role will be assisting two Directors on a wide range of both privately and institutionally owned rural property portfolios, dealing with all aspects of property management. There will be cross over with the Professional team where necessary, particularly helping with portfolio valuation work on the managed estates.

Norwich - Savills has been at the heart of rural property in Norfolk since 1950. The sixteen staff within the Rural department undertake management, professional, agency and farming work, integrating closely with Residential, New Homes and Development teams which provide a very strong position across the key property sectors in the county. The office is led by experienced, forward thinking Directors who are key players in their regional, and in some cases national, complemented by a vibrant next generation. This engenders a great sense of collaboration and, crucially, fun in our work.

Perth - The role will be based in Perth assisting a large rural consultancy team working across Scotland for a range of clients. The team is a dynamic mix of specialists including valuation, compulsory purchase, contentious landlord and tenant and ad hoc consultancy. We specialise in prime rural and residential property and no day is never the same. The role would be working alongside two other graduates going into their second year of training, and assisting seven other qualified chartered surveyors and valuers. The York office covers all aspects of Rural property, with teams focusing on estate management, valuation and agency. There is the opportunity to gain experience across all sectors working with high profile clients across Yorkshire and the North East.

**About this role**

As a graduate on the rural pathway, no one day is the same. In a typical day, a rural graduate could be out walking boundaries and inspecting crops, dealing with residential, commercial or agricultural landlord and tenant issues, carrying out property refurbishments or negotiating terms for access agreements and easements. The breadth of experience that Savills graduates obtain is second to none.”

Click here to hear from one of our Rural Graduates.

**How you’ll make an impact**
- High attention to detail, well organised and a proactive approach
- Strong verbal, numerical and report writing skills
- Ability to empower those around them
- A team player with leadership potential
- Strategic approach to problem solving
- Ability to challenge in a positive way
- Highly motivated
- Ability to Listen to others and Collaborate effectively
- Computer literate

Ahead of anything else, we look for individualism and diversity in our graduate intake - so it's very important at every stage of the selection process that you take the opportunity to show us what you're really like. Be honest and above all, be yourself.

**Training**

Our training and development programme is highly regarded as one of the best in the property industry, and is geared towards enabling our graduates to reach their full potential. As a graduate, you'll also have regular opportunities to attend technical, business skills and personal development activities - including conferences, courses, lectures, networking, mock assessments, revision sessions and social events - which compliment both your practical experience and meet the theoretical requirements of your APC.

You will have an APC supervisor and counsellor who support and guide you throughout the two year training programme. They will discuss your training and experience needs at regular progress reviews, ensuring you receive the