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Overview

Looking for a recruitment agency? Forward Role is a specialist Manchester agency covering marketing, digital, tech and more. Find talent or your next career move.

Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Forward Role over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
98
Postings analysed
27
Stack modernity
75/100AI adopter
Languages
Python41%
Bash22%
SQL15%
C++7%
Java7%
PHP7%
PowerShell7%
C#4%
Frameworks & libraries
JUnit4%
Mockito4%
OpenTelemetry4%
Pandas4%
PyTorch4%
Scikit-learn4%
Spring Boot4%
TensorFlow4%
Databases
Google BigQuery4%
MySQL4%
PostgreSQL4%
Redis4%
Snowflake4%
OpenSearch4%
Cloud & platforms
AWS48%
Kubernetes41%
Azure30%
Linux30%
Windows15%
Spark11%
Grafana7%
Power BI7%
Developer tools
Docker33%
Terraform33%
Ansible15%
Puppet11%
Adobe Photoshop7%
Copilot7%
Prometheus7%
Rest API7%
AI & ML
ChatGPT4%
Practices & domains
CI/CD44%
Platform Engineering30%
A/B Testing7%
Configuration Management4%
DHCP4%
DNS4%
Dependency Injection4%
ETL/ELT4%
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Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$87k
Typical range
$44k – $147k
Open positions
33
18 Jobs
Junior 22.2%
Middle 5.6%
Senior 50%
Staff 16.7%
Architect 5.6%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Junior 4 $60k $54k – $67k
Middle 1 $54k $54k
Senior 9 $87k $47k – $134k
Staff 3 $64k $58k – $147k
Architect 1 $93k $93k
Highest paying role Delivery Lead - Government & Law Enforcement $147k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Forward Role By role, level and city, against the market · 33 jobs with pay

Growth

Hiring Momentum
27/100
Slowing
Open positions
52
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
29 days
faster than 46% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~10 hours
Today
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.
Marketing
29%
DevOps
11% ▲
Security
9% ▼
Management
9% ▼
Analytics
6% ▲
HR
6% ▼
Actively hiring for Marketing (+15 in 30 days)

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
This company is a staffing agency: the cities below are where its clients hire, not its own offices.
Cities
14
Hiring now
14
Countries
2
Busiest office
Manchester
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16 open roles 20 posted in 90 days 19% engineering 500-1000 est. staff $61k Avg Salary
hires for Marketing, Sales, Backend
Croxley House, 14 Lloyd Street,, Manchester, M2 5ND
seen since Nov 2024 company site, job postings
Cheltenham United Kingdom
8 open roles 9 posted in 90 days 63% engineering 200-500 est. staff $109k Avg Salary
hires for Data Science, Management, DevOps
seen since Aug 2026 job postings
London United Kingdom
7 open roles 8 posted in 90 days 57% engineering 200-500 est. staff $118k Avg Salary
hires for AI/ML, DevOps, Security
seen since Jul 2026 job postings
Leeds United Kingdom
3 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 67% engineering 50-200 est. staff $73k Avg Salary
hires for Security, Administrative, Analytics
seen since Oct 2026 job postings
Norfolk United States
2 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff $58k Avg Salary
hires for HR, Management
seen since Sep 2026 company site, job postings
Liverpool United Kingdom
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 10-50 est. staff
hires for Enterprise Apps
seen since Oct 2026 job postings
Birmingham United Kingdom
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff $114k Avg Salary
hires for HR
seen since Oct 2026 job postings
Bolton United Kingdom
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff
hires for Marketing
seen since Oct 2026 job postings
Chester United Kingdom
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff $47k Avg Salary
hires for Marketing
seen since Oct 2026 job postings
Stockport United Kingdom
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff $54k Avg Salary
hires for Marketing
seen since Oct 2026 job postings
Burnley United Kingdom
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff
hires for Marketing
seen since Oct 2026 job postings
Glasgow United Kingdom
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff $93k Avg Salary
hires for Management
seen since Oct 2026 job postings
Warrington United Kingdom
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff $67k Avg Salary
hires for Marketing
seen since Oct 2026 job postings
Gloucester United Kingdom
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff $134k Avg Salary
hires for Industrial Engineering
seen since Oct 2026 job postings
Earlier presence
Swansea, United Kingdom 1 open roles · last posting Oct 2026
Milton Keynes, United Kingdom 1 open roles · last posting Oct 2026
Blackburn, United Kingdom 1 open roles · last posting Oct 2026

Jobs

$87k – $114k per year · Hybrid · Full-Time · Cheltenham
Agile
Scrum
Kanban
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≈ $87k – $176k per year (Estimated) · In office · Full-Time · United Kingdom
Puppet
Ansible
CI/CD
Windows Server
Docker
Kubernetes
Platform Engineering
Windows
Cybersecurity
Active Directory
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≈ $62k – $138k per year (Estimated) · In office · Full-Time · United Kingdom
Terraform
Ansible
Azure
CI/CD
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Platform Engineering
Linux
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≈ $65k – $147k per year (Estimated) · In office · Full-Time · London
Python
Bash
Terraform
CI/CD
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Platform Engineering
Linux
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$87k – $114k per year · Hybrid · Full-Time · London
Agile
Scrum
Kanban
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$74k – $87k per year · Hybrid · Full-Time · Leeds
Splunk
Windows
Cybersecurity
Microsoft Sentinel
Google SecOps
SIEM
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$60k – $87k per year · In office · Full-Time · United Kingdom
Python
Java
PowerShell
C#
C++
Bash
Platform Engineering
Windows
Cybersecurity
Ghidra
IDA Pro
Management
Agile
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$60k – $114k per year · Hybrid · Full-Time · United Kingdom
Python
C++
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up to $60k per year · Hybrid · Full-Time · 1+ year exp · Leeds
Python
JavaScript
SQL
Google BigQuery
Analytics
Power BI
A/B Testing
Looker
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up to $60k per year · Hybrid · Full-Time · Manchester
SQL
Tableau
Power BI
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$80k – $121k per year · Hybrid · Full-Time · London
Fine-tuning
Machine Learning
DevOps
CI/CD
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≈ $72k – $140k per year (Estimated) · In office · Contractor · Manchester
Java
Kotlin
Spring Boot
Testcontainers
Kotlin
Mockito
Databases
PostgreSQL
Apache Kafka
AI/ML
Copilot
Cursor
ChatGPT
Claude Code
Mobile
JUnit
DevOps
Rest API
Terraform
OpenTelemetry
CloudFormation
Datadog
CI/CD
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Grafana
Amazon EKS
AWS Lambda
Amazon S3
Amazon ECS
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