Companies in Manchester, United Kingdom can run their whole hiring process on Pitch N Hire's applicant tracking system — job posting, a branded careers page, resume parsing, interview scheduling, scorecards and team collaboration — with a free-forever plan for one user. It works anywhere on the web, so a Manchester team can manage local and offshore hiring from one place.
An applicant tracking system (ATS) is the software a team uses to manage hiring end-to-end: posting jobs to boards and a branded careers page, collecting and parsing applications, moving candidates through pipeline stages, scheduling interviews, capturing structured scorecards, and collaborating on decisions. Pitch N Hire's ATS (its 'Operate' product) does all of this in the browser, with a free-forever tier for a single user and paid plans as a team grows. Because it is web-based it serves companies anywhere — a team can run its local recruitment and any offshore hiring from the same system, with reporting on time-to-fill and source performance so the process stays measurable rather than run over email and spreadsheets.
Create roles once and publish to your branded careers page and multiple job boards, so applications flow into one organised pipeline instead of scattered inboxes.
Resumes are parsed and candidates captured automatically, with duplicates merged, so your team starts from a clean, searchable candidate database.
Drag candidates through customisable stages, leave notes, and keep everyone aligned on where each person is — no more spreadsheet status-chasing.
Schedule interviews, share structured scorecards, and gather feedback in one place so hiring decisions are consistent and comparable across interviewers.
Dashboards show time-to-fill, source performance and pipeline conversion, so a team can see what's working and hire more predictably over time.
Pitch N Hire's applicant tracking system covers the full hiring workflow in one place:
Manchester is the largest technology cluster in the UK outside London, anchored by MediaCityUK, a thriving digital and e-commerce scene, and major employers across broadcasting, retail and financial services. The city has attracted significant Northern-hub investment and relocations from London firms seeking lower costs, which has deepened its mid-level and senior engineering base considerably over the past decade.
Manchester's talent pool is strong in web, e-commerce, PHP/JavaScript, .NET and data, with a growing cloud and DevOps community and a healthy graduate pipeline from its large universities. Salaries sit below London while talent quality is high, making it a favoured base for scale-ups — though specialist and senior roles can still be slow to fill, where offshore augmentation helps.
Manchester developer pay typically runs well under London levels — senior engineers often in the region of £50k–£75k — reflecting lower living costs. Teams that need to stretch budgets further, or add niche skills quickly, combine local Manchester hires with offshore India-based engineers sourced and employed through PNH.
Northern scale-ups often use Manchester as their on-site core and add an offshore pod for volume or specialist work. PNH vets India-based engineers, aligns working hours to the UK morning, and runs employment through its Employer of Record, so a Manchester team can grow delivery capacity without new local headcount cost.
You can engage Pitch N Hire in whichever way fits your Manchester team's stage and workload — and mix them as you scale:
A pre-screened India talent pool means matched shortlists in days, not the months a local permanent hire can take.
You interview and choose every person; Pitch N Hire surfaces qualified candidates and handles the operational load.
Offshore hires are employed through PNH's India Employer of Record — payroll, tax and statutory compliance are taken care of.
Building part of your team offshore keeps comparable seniority on the roster at a lower total cost than local-only hiring.
Engineers work on overlapping working hours and inside your tools and sprints — collaboration, not black-box outsourcing.
Staffing, recruitment, EOR and the ATS/interview software come from one provider, so hiring stays joined-up as you scale.
Staffing and recruitment services, the applicant tracking software, and hiring resources — all in one place.
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