Web development bootcamp · Southampton and live online
Small cohorts of 16, two mentors in the room and a curriculum that ends with a real client project. Then a year of career coaching until you are hired.
| Start date | Format | Where | Weeks | Seats left | Apply |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 Jan 2027 | Full-time | In person | 12 | 3 of 16 | Apply |
| 18 Jan 2027 | Part-time | Live online | 24 | 6 of 16 | Apply |
| 1 Mar 2027 | Full-time | Live online | 12 | 9 of 16 | Apply |
| 12 Apr 2027 | Part-time | In person | 24 | 11 of 16 | Apply |
| 10 May 2027 | Full-time | In person | 12 | 14 of 16 | Apply |
Funded places available through [funding scheme] for eligible UK residents. Fees & funding
16 students, 2 mentors
Every cohort is capped at 16, so you are never more than eight people from help.
12 months of career support
CV reviews, mock interviews and introductions until you are hired or a year has passed.
Switch format in week two
Start full-time and move to part-time (or the reverse) in the first fortnight, free.
Pay in 10 instalments
From £795 a month, interest-free, after a £500 deposit that holds your seat.
Courses
Full-time and part-time teach the same twelve units and build the same six projects. Foundations is four evenings for finding out if coding is for you.
Monday to Friday, 9:30–17:30
Twelve weeks, Monday to Friday, from your first HTML page to a full-stack app and a client project shipped with a team. The fastest way to change career if you can step away from work.
From £8,950
Course detailsTue & Thu 18:30–21:30, Sat 9:30–13:30
The same curriculum over 24 weeks, built around a full-time job. Two weeknight sessions and Saturday mornings, with self-study in between and a mentor who knows your shift pattern.
From £8,450
Course detailsWednesday evenings 18:30–21:00, plus 4 hours at home
A four-week evening course for people who want to find out whether they enjoy coding before committing to a bootcamp. HTML, CSS and your first JavaScript, taught by the same mentors.
From £395
Course details
Brackwell started in 2017 with eight students around one table above a chandlery on the quay. We are bigger now, but the rule has not changed: two mentors for every sixteen students, and every mentor still ships code for clients two days a month.
Admissions
No maths test and no degree required. Most people go from first call to a confirmed start date in under three weeks.
A 20-minute call
Tell us what you do now and what you want to do next. We check the course fits before anything else.
The prep pack
Ten hours of free exercises in HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Finishing it is the entry requirement.
An interview with a mentor
Forty minutes: talk through your prep work and solve a small problem together. It is a conversation, not a test.
A seat and a start date
Pay the £500 deposit to hold your seat. Two weeks before you start, you get your laptop and timetable.
Curriculum explorer
Switch between full-time and part-time and the timeline redraws, school breaks included. Open any week for its topics, the thing you build and the hours it takes.
You'd graduate on Fri, 9 April 2027
Apply for this cohortTopics
What you build
A personal page, written from a blank file and published on day four.
Study time
40 hours in total, in one week
First pull request reviewed by a mentor
Topics
What you build
A three-page site for a local business, rebuilt from a printed design.
Study time
40 hours in total, in one week
Topics
What you build
A command-line quiz and a set of 30 small exercises with passing tests.
Study time
42 hours in total, in one week
Foundations check: a 90-minute paired coding task
Topics
What you build
A bus-times board that reads a public timetable feed and refreshes itself.
Study time
42 hours in total, in one week
Topics
What you build
A habit tracker with filters, saved state and three routes.
Study time
42 hours in total, in one week
Topics
What you build
Your habit tracker, audited and fixed until it passes an accessibility review.
Study time
40 hours in total, in one week
Front-end project demo to the cohort
Topics
What you build
An API for a lost-property office: report, search and claim items.
Study time
42 hours in total, in one week
Topics
What you build
The lost-property API on a real database, with seed data and migrations.
Study time
42 hours in total, in one week
Topics
What you build
A full-stack app with sign-in, a test suite that runs on every push, and a live URL.
Study time
44 hours in total, in one week
Full-stack checkpoint: code review with a working developer
Topics
What you build
Sprint one of a product for a Southampton charity or small business, in a team of four.
Study time
44 hours in total, in one week
Topics
What you build
The team product, live, handed over to the client with documentation.
Study time
44 hours in total, in one week
Client sign-off
Topics
What you build
Your portfolio site with three projects written up, and a five-minute demo-day talk.
Study time
38 hours in total, in one week
Demo day in front of local employers
Outcomes
Across the 214 graduates who finished between January 2023 to December 2024. We publish the misses too.
How we count: "hired" means a paid role of 30+ hours a week where writing code is the main job, started within 180 days of demo day and confirmed by a contract or payslip. Graduates who told us in writing they were not job-seeking are left out of both sides of the sum (11 people in this period). These are the school's own figures, not independently audited.
Compare the routes
All three routes can get you hired. They differ in time, money and how alone you are while you learn.
| Compare | Brackwell bootcamp | University degree | Teaching yourself |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time to job-ready | 12 or 24 weeks | 3 years | 12–24 months, often longer |
| Cost | £8,450–£8,950 | £27,750 in tuition | Free to £500 |
| Support | 2 mentors per 16 students | Lectures and office hours | Forums and videos |
| Portfolio | 6 projects incl. a client build | Coursework, mostly theory | Whatever you finish |
| Hiring network | Demo day + 40 local partners | Careers fairs | None |
| Start dates | Five a year | Once a year, in September | Any time |
Graduate stories
Ward pharmacy technicianJunior full-stack developer, a hospital software supplier
“I did 24 weeks of evenings after twelve-hour shifts. The timetable was the only reason it was possible.”
I had been teaching myself from videos for a year and kept stalling at the same place: I could follow a tutorial, but I could not start anything from a blank file. Week one at Brackwell was exactly that, a blank file and a mentor sitting next to me until I had a page live.
The part-time timetable mattered more than I expected. Tuesday and Thursday evenings plus Saturday mornings meant I never had to swap a shift. When a run of nights wiped out a fortnight, my mentor moved my checkpoint by a week and nobody made it a drama.
14 weeks to hired
Warehouse shift leadFront-end developer, an e-commerce agency
“Twelve weeks felt like a year in the best way. The mock interviews were harder than the real ones.”
6 weeks to hired
Secondary school maths teacherSoftware engineer in test, a logistics platform
“I wanted proof I could ship, not a certificate. My portfolio did the talking.”
19 weeks to hired
Café ownerJunior developer, a local booking-software firm
“I joined from the Isle of Wight on the live-online stream and never felt like the remote one.”
Built here
Every one is live, has real users and started as a brief from a Southampton charity, business or the student's own life.
Tideline
Team project, autumn 2025
Ferry departures and live delays for island commuters.
Plotshare
Amira K., part-time
Allotment plots swapped and shared between neighbours.
Rota Pal
Sam W., full-time
Shift swaps for a 40-person care home team.
Foodbank Stock
Team project, spring 2025
Stock levels and expiry alerts for a food bank.
Choosing a course · 5 min ·
Same curriculum, same projects, very different weeks. Four questions that decide which format will actually get you to demo day.
Inside the course · 6 min ·
Monday's live build, the Wednesday wobble and Friday code review. One full-time week, hour by hour, from week five of the course.
FAQ
No, but you need to have tried. Before your interview we send a free 10-hour prep pack; finishing it is the only entry requirement. Most of our students have never been paid to write code.
A 20-minute call, a short take-home challenge from the prep pack, then a 40-minute interview with a mentor. You hear back within three working days of the interview.
Yes. A £500 deposit holds your seat, then the balance is split into up to 10 interest-free monthly payments starting on your first day.
Some places are funded through [funding scheme] for eligible UK residents, and we offer two half-fee scholarships each cohort. Ask on your first call and we will check your eligibility before you pay anything.
Full-time is about 40 hours a week, 9:30 to 5:30 on weekdays plus some evening work. Part-time is about 20 hours: two evenings, Saturday morning and self-study.
Same timetable, same mentors, same projects. Online students join the room on a shared video call and pair with in-person students every week.
A named careers coach for 12 months: CV and portfolio reviews, mock technical interviews, introductions to our hiring partners and help with negotiating an offer.
No, and be wary of anyone who does. We publish how many graduates are hired and how we count them on the outcomes page, including the ones who are not.
Code Foundations is £395, counts as your bootcamp prep pack, and comes off your fees if you join within six months.
