Atos to launch new sovereign and sovereign AI centres across the UK
Three hubs to provide sovereign and sovereign AI capabilities, with AI-proofed career paths to be introduced for UK graduates and apprentices.
United Kingdom – October 20, 2025
Atos, a leading provider of AI-powered digital transformation, has announced a holistic new approach to delivering people-first digital sovereign and agentic AI capabilities across its end-to-end IT service portfolio. Its new suite of services provides the building blocks for companies to have a tailored, resilient, and future-ready approach that enables fast and easy adaptation to evolving regulations, geopolitical pressures and unique operational needs.
The three hubs will address the growing demand for UK-based IT delivery, data hosting and resiliency for public sector, defence and critical national infrastructure (CNI) businesses.
Sovereign Orchestration Hub
The Sovereign Orchestration Hub will be a state-of-the-art, sustainably built delivery centre. It will leverage Atos’ 30 years of engineering heritage to provide an AI-enabled suite of offerings that build upon its existing sovereign capabilities, including the Atos Sovereign Cloud portfolio.
The Hub will provide cutting-edge, resilient Sovereign Cloud-on-site solutions, AI-driven Digital Workplace services, Sovereign Extended Device Lifecycle Services (beyond net-zero), Sovereign Bridge and a converged Network Operations Centre / Security Operations Centre capability. This will give clients unparalleled monitoring and management with a single view of their IT and OT environments, facilitating proactive issue resolution and increasing efficiency, security and resilience.
The Hub will set new standards for secure, compliant and scalable technology innovation, centered around digital sovereignty as a vital component of the UK&I’s technological resilience and strategic autonomy.
Digital Agentic Centre
Atos’ Digital Agentic Centre will host and manage sovereign AI capabilities to offer clients autonomy, security and data sovereignty to meet their AI requirements. It will revolutionise Application Services to pursue +50% automation in engineering, testing and DevOps services, significantly reducing operational costs and time-to-value. These efficiencies will free up capital to help clients accelerate their digital transformation journeys and the use of agents will make services more intelligent, resilient and adaptable to future demand.
Using modern AI-powered Application Services, sustainability, green IT and social value initiatives, the Centre will provide clients with a unified, consistent, standardised application portfolio, tailored to their individual requirements.
Sovereign Digital Enablement Centre
Atos’ Sovereign Digital Enablement Centre (DEC) is designed to support faster ICT delivery and innovation across defence and critical national infrastructure. The Centre acts as an accelerant for mission-critical digital solutions, enabling rapid and secure building, testing and assurance in a collaborative sovereign environment.
Supported by key partners, Microsoft and AWS, the DEC will provide a trusted space where SMEs, academia and larger industry players can innovate and test new technologies at speed. The Centre will foster a sandbox approach that accelerates secure delivery and strengthens sovereign digital capabilities across the UK.
People-First AI-Proofed Careers
In line with these developments, Atos is reinforcing its commitment to developing diverse talent by increasing the number of graduates and apprentices it hires, offering AI-proofed career paths with flexible practices available such as term-time contracts.
Rather than training in just one field of technology, new recruits will gain hands-on experience across AI, cloud, cybersecurity, data analytics, and digital services. This approach ensures individuals grow alongside AI, building resilient careers that evolve with technology rather than compete with it.
Atos will welcome the first cohort of around 50 new early-career employees in its centres in 2026.
Michael Herron, Head of Atos UK&I, said, “Our new sovereign offerings will ensure our clients have a future-ready end-to-end IT estate under their control so that they can easily adapt to any regulatory or geopolitical changes. For businesses in the public, defence and critical national infrastructure sectors, the need for sovereign AI capabilities is mission-critical, and we’re proud to be working with them to make safe and reliable digital and AI development possible.
“As part of this, we are reimagining what an IT career pathway looks like in an age where humans and AI co-exist together. Our new early-career roles will give young people in the UK a multi-faceted career in the digital arena. Sovereignty, for us, includes nurturing the next generation of tech talent in the UK&I.”
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About Atos Group
Atos Group is a global leader in digital transformation with c. 70,000 employees and annual revenue of c. € 10 billion, operating in 67 countries under two brands — Atos for services and Eviden for products. European number one in cybersecurity, cloud and high-performance computing, Atos Group is committed to a secure and decarbonized future and provides tailored AI-powered, end-to-end solutions for all industries.
Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea) and listed on Euronext Paris. The purpose of Atos is to help design the future of the information space. Its expertise and services support the development of knowledge, education and research in a multicultural approach and contribute to the development of scientific and technological excellence. Across the world, the Group enables its customers and employees, and members of societies at large to live, work and develop sustainably, in a safe and secure information space.
Press contact
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