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Top 10 Microsoft Copilot Trainers in the UK (2026 Guide)

Skillopedia's lead trainer, Hitesh Motwani, sits at the top of this UK list of Microsoft Copilot trainers, with QA, Learning Tree UK and Multiverse also included. The guide helps British employers, from London professional services firms to regional manufacturers and public sector suppliers, choose between official courses, levy-funded routes and bespoke workshops.
By the Skillopedia team  |  Updated October 2026  |  8 min read

Quick list

  1. Hitesh Motwani (Skillopedia)
  2. QA
  3. Learning Tree UK
  4. Acuity Training
  5. Teamland
  6. Multiverse
  7. Decoded
  8. General Purpose
  9. Microsoft Learn
  10. Coursera (Vanderbilt University Copilot courses)

How we picked them

UK buyers often ask about the Apprenticeship Levy, official Microsoft course codes and UK GDPR, so those three factors shaped our comparison. The Skillopedia team also weighed department-level adoption support, Copilot Studio automation content and whether providers could deliver across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Disclosure: Skillopedia publishes this guide and its lead trainer is listed first.

The top 10 Microsoft Copilot trainers in the UK

#1 · Skillopedia

Hitesh Motwani

Hitesh Motwani runs Copilot programmes for UK teams that start from the work people already do in Outlook, Teams, Word and Excel, then add Copilot Studio agents for departments with repeatable processes. Skillopedia's lead trainer, an Anthropic Claude Certified Trainer and author of Generative AI 360° (ZebraLearn, 2025), has trained 200,000+ people across 335+ organisations in 16+ countries for clients including Xebia, HPE, Emirates NBD, Landmark Group and Mitsui & Co.

#2 · Microsoft/Google partner

QA

Copilot Accelerator, Copilot Agent and Copilot Chat pathways, along with short courses such as Copilot Chat Essentials and Copilot for Excel data analysis, come from a provider that calls itself Microsoft's largest learning partner.

Best for: Organisation-wide Copilot programmes

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#3 · Training company

Learning Tree UK

MS-4004 on Copilot use cases, MS-4022 on extending Copilot in Copilot Studio, PL-7008 on agent creation and the three-day AB-620 agent solutions course are part of its long list of official Microsoft Copilot courses.

Best for: Official Microsoft Copilot course codes

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#4 · Training company

Acuity Training

Its five Copilot courses range from a three-hour overview to full-day classes in Copilot Introduction, Copilot for Word, Copilot with Excel and AI for Managers, and every course includes six months of post-course support.

Best for: Short practical Copilot classes

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#5 · Training company

Teamland

Repeatable Copilot flows for documents, spreadsheets, Outlook and Teams are the focus of its facilitated workshops, delivered on-site in the City of London, Canary Wharf and across Greater London.

Best for: Department-level Copilot adoption

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#6 · Training company

Multiverse

Staff learn to use Microsoft 365 Copilot or Gemini for prompting, analysis and everyday productivity through AI-Powered Productivity, a levy-funded Level 3 apprenticeship lasting 13 months.

Best for: Levy-funded Copilot upskilling

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#7 · Training company

Decoded

Using Microsoft 365 Copilot and ChatGPT to automate routine work across Excel, PowerPoint and Power BI is what professionals learn on its AI and Automation Specialist Accelerator, which lasts four to six weeks.

Best for: Copilot-based automation skills

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#8 · Training company

General Purpose

A team's real tasks and data shape its bespoke, hands-on AI workshops, which cover ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot and Gemini.

Best for: Bespoke workshops for Copilot firms

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#9 · Online platform

Microsoft Learn

Two modules, one on implementing Copilot and one on its data security and compliance controls, form the Prepare your organization for Microsoft 365 Copilot path on Microsoft's free learning portal.

Best for: Free self-paced Copilot admin learning

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#10 · Online platform

Coursera (Vanderbilt University Copilot courses)

Part of a Copilot for Leaders specialisation, Vanderbilt University's Microsoft 365 Copilot: Personal Productivity for All is a beginner course of roughly nine hours on picking the right Copilot tool and prompting it well.

Best for: Self-paced Copilot productivity certificate

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How to choose a Microsoft Copilot trainer in the UK

  • Ask whether any part of the programme can use Apprenticeship Levy funds
  • Ask how the syllabus treats UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018
  • Confirm whether the course maps to an official Microsoft course code
  • Ask if Copilot Studio automation is included for operations teams
  • Check delivery options for offices outside London
  • Request department-specific examples rather than generic demos

Skills partnerships and Copilot training across the UK

In June 2025 the UK government and 11 firms including Microsoft, Google, Amazon Web Services and IBM announced a partnership to give 7.5 million workers, about a fifth of the workforce, AI skills by 2030. Within that commitment, Microsoft alone undertook to train one million people. For employers already paying for Microsoft 365 Copilot, the announcement reinforced a simple point: licences only pay off when staff learn to use them in their actual jobs.

Large Microsoft learning partners lead the UK Copilot market, complemented by London workshop firms, automation specialists and levy-funded apprenticeship providers. Personal data must be handled under UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018, and the Information Commissioner's Office has published guidance on AI and data protection, so governance is a standard module. Free Microsoft Learn paths and self-paced certificates serve individuals, while larger organisations tend to commission department-level programmes.

Questions people ask

Apprenticeship Levy money is restricted to approved apprenticeship standards, so it cannot pay for a standalone short course. Some providers, such as Multiverse, build Copilot and AI skills into levy-funded apprenticeships. If you want to use levy funds, ask which standard applies, how long the programme lasts and what the employee’s off-the-job training commitment looks like.
UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018 require lawful, fair handling of personal data, so staff need to know what to include in prompts, how Copilot respects permissions and when outputs need checking. The ICO’s guidance on AI is a helpful reference. Bring your data protection officer into the design of the course from the start.
Official courses follow Microsoft’s published curriculum, which helps when you want consistent content across many learners or need to report against a recognised standard. Providers such as Learning Tree UK and QA offer them. Tailored workshops trade that standardisation for exercises on your own documents, so some organisations use both.
The 2025 partnership signals that government and major technology firms see AI skills as a national priority, and it has widened access to free and low-cost learning. For a business, it is a prompt to plan Copilot training deliberately rather than leaving staff to learn alone. Ask providers how their programmes complement free resources.
Yes. Most providers combine on-site sessions in the larger offices with live online labs for everyone else, using the same prompt library and materials. Ask about group sizes, how hybrid workers are included and what follow-up is offered after the first wave, then request a proposal that sets out format and timing.

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About Skillopedia

Skillopedia is a corporate AI training firm, established in 2017, running hands-on programmes for teams across India, the GCC, Africa and Southeast Asia, with on-site and online sessions across the UAE. We have trained 200,000+ professionals from 335+ organisations in 13 industry sectors. More about us