1st Central

Property & Casualty Insurance
2open roles
Scaling fasthiring pace, 93 of 100
5000+people
3cities with offices

Overview

1st Central is a UK car and home insurer that uses data, technology and service to offer insurance to more than 1.4 million customers. Part of First Central Group, it hires data engineers, data scientists, pricing managers, platform engineers and claims fraud handlers in Manchester, Haywards Heath and Gibraltar. The company is based in the United Kingdom.

Jobs

Hybrid · Full-Time · Haywards Heath · Manchester
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Analytics
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≈ $56k – $127k per year (Estimated) · Hybrid · Full-Time · Manchester · Haywards Heath
Copilot
LLM Guardrails
DevOps
Azure
CI/CD
Platform Engineering
Cybersecurity
Microsoft Sentinel
ISO 27001
Microsoft Defender
PCI DSS
Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Management
Agile
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Growth

Hiring Momentum
93/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
8
5 opened / 4 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
26 days
faster than 51% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~9 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Finance
16% ▼
Legal
16% ▲
Leadership
11% ▼
Industrial Engineering
11%
AI/ML
5% ▼
Data Science
5% ▲
Activity Timeline
Added PCI DSS to stack Oct 2026
Added Microsoft Sentinel to stack Oct 2026
Added Microsoft Defender for Cloud to stack Oct 2026
Added Microsoft Defender to stack Oct 2026
Added LLM Guardrails to stack Oct 2026
Added ISO 27001 to stack Oct 2026
Added Copilot to stack Oct 2026
Added AI Agents to stack Oct 2026
Added Windows to stack Oct 2026
Added SharePoint to stack Oct 2026
Added Service Desk to stack Oct 2026
Added MS SQL to stack Oct 2026

Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at 1st Central over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
44
Postings analysed
11
Stack modernity
74/100
Languages
SQL73%
Python36%
C#18%
JavaScript18%
Frameworks & libraries
Angular18%
Entity Framework Core9%
PyTorch9%
TensorFlow9%
Databases
MS SQL9%
Cloud & platforms
Azure64%
Databricks36%
Power BI36%
Kubernetes27%
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Full 1st Central tech stack 44 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
3
Hiring now
3
Countries
2
Busiest office
Manchester
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Manchester United Kingdom
Regional office
Haywards Heath
9 open roles 16 posted in 90 days 22% engineering 1000-5000 est. staff $133k Avg Salary
hires for Leadership, Industrial Engineering, Security
seen since Jul 2026 job postings
Haywards Heath United Kingdom
Regional office
Haywards Heath
7 open roles 11 posted in 90 days 29% engineering 1000-5000 est. staff
hires for Industrial Engineering, Security, Administrative
seen since Sep 2026 job postings
Gibraltar Gibraltar
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 200-500 est. staff
hires for Management
seen since Sep 2026