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How Hastings Direct hires

Truth index
B 75/100
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
100%
Reposted roles
0%

Hastings Direct scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 3 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 100% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed

Overview

Hastings Direct is a UK general insurance provider headquartered in Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, selling car, van, motorbike and home insurance directly and through price comparison websites. Founded in 1996, it serves more than four million customers, is owned by the Finnish insurance group Sampo and runs large offices in Leicester and London alongside its south coast head office. It hires claims handlers and claims managers, pricing analysts and data scientists, cloud, security and test automation engineers, product owners and solution architects, plus legal, tax, finance and facilities staff.

Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Hastings Direct over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
60
Postings analysed
25
Stack modernity
75/100AI adopter
Languages
Python36%
SQL36%
JavaScript20%
C#12%
Frameworks & libraries
Cypress12%
Playwright12%
Selenium12%
React.js8%
Databases
Snowflake24%
Cloud & platforms
Azure60%
Azure DevOps32%
GitHub20%
Postman12%
AI & ML
LLM4%
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Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$54k
Typical range
$41k – $199k
Open positions
4
1 Jobs
Senior 100%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Senior 1 $67k $67k
Highest paying role Field Surveyor/Adjuster $199k
Normalized to USD per year

Growth

Hiring Momentum
28/100
Slowing
Open positions
56
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
ATS activity
Every ~11 hours
10/18/2026
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.
Sales
14%
Finance
9% ▲
Industrial Engineering
9% ▲
Leadership
7% ▲
Management
7% ▲
Data Science
5% ▲
Actively hiring for Finance (+5 in 30 days)

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
3
Hiring now
2
Countries
1
Busiest office
Leicester
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Bexhill-on-Sea United Kingdom
HQ
Leicester United Kingdom
Support & operations
Leicester
44 open roles 43 posted in 90 days 36% engineering 1000-5000 est. staff $54k Avg Salary
hires for Sales, Industrial Engineering, Finance
seen since Jan 2026 job postings
London United Kingdom
Regional office
Home Worker
17 open roles 16 posted in 90 days 35% engineering 500-1000 est. staff
hires for Data Science, Sales, Product
seen since Jan 2026 job postings

Jobs

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