Former Norwich City schoolboy Jamie Forshaw joined Southend United's youth team and won a call- to the Scotland Under-16 squad in August 2006.

After a loan spell during 2008/9 with Bishops Stortford, Forshaw was one of seven players released by Southend on 11th May 2009

After a successful trial, Jamie signed for Ebbsfleet United on 29th July 2009 along with defender Jordan Collins, forward James Lindie and winger Ishmael Welsh

Jamie spent some time at Ashford Town on loan earlier in the 2009/10 season before being released by Ebbsfleet in February 2010 after making 13 appearances for the Fleet, 11 of which had come from the bench. On 9th February 2010, Jamie signed for Lowestoft despite interest from Braintree. He made his debut that day in a 2-1 win over Tilbury in the Championship Manager Cup.

On 8th June 2012, Forshaw signed for Kings Lynn Town, newly promoted to the Southern League. He said “It’s a new exciting challenge for me to come and play here. I know a few of the lads and King’s Lynn are an ambitious club. They want to go higher – it’s the first thing the manager said to me – and it’s a good place to be. It’s a big club and there’s 700 plus fans at home games. Sam Gaughran’s come across with me. I know Jordan Yong and Danny Beaumont was at Norwich with me. I spoke to a few of them. I’ve done my homework on Lynn and the manager’s done his homework on me. I’d like to get some more first-team football. I really enjoyed myself at Lowestoft. It was a good club, a good bunch of lads, and it was tough to leave. Hopefully I can come here, play games, score goals and show what I can do.I’m at the period in my career where I need to step on and go forward now. This is the right place for me to be next season. If I can play as many games as I can, score as many goals as I can, then hopefully I can step on as I’ve still got aspirations to get back into the full-time game. I just want to get my head down and hopefully come that first league game I’ll be in the starting 11.”

On 2nd November 2012, Forshaw joined Wroxham from Lynn

He moved to AFC Sudbury on 20th June 2013 but returned to Wroxham at the end of July 2014.

By August 2016, Jamie had returned to Lowestoft. Released at the end of the 2016/17 season, Forshaw signed for Ryman League rival Dereham on 12th June 2017.

He subsequently played for Mulbarton Wanderers, spent the 2022/23 season at Sherringham before returning to Mulbarton for the 2023/24 campaign.