Caterer.com Jobs Search Scraper: Extract UK Catering Jobs Data

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What Is Caterer.com?

Caterer.com is the UK's leading job board dedicated to hospitality and catering professionals. It aggregates thousands of active vacancies across management, chefs, waitstaff, and support roles from hotels, restaurants, event caterers, and contract food service companies. Collecting job listing data manually from search results is repetitive and error-prone — the Caterer.com Jobs Search Scraper automates this, turning search results into clean, structured datasets ready for analysis.

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Overview

The Caterer.com Jobs Search Scraper extracts job listings directly from Caterer.com search result pages, capturing comprehensive job and company data in a single operation. It is designed for:

• Recruitment agencies monitoring market activity and competitor postings
• Salary benchmarking professionals building compensation datasets
• Job aggregators and platforms feeding content into multi-source boards
• Market researchers analyzing hospitality hiring trends in the UK
• HR teams tracking available talent and skill demand

Key strengths include the ability to scrape search result pages directly (not just individual job listings), configurable item limits, and robust error handling that lets you process large batches without interruptions.

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Input Format

The scraper accepts a JSON configuration with the following parameters:

{
  "urls": [
    "https://www.caterer.com/jobs/management?searchOrigin=Resultlist_top-search&whatType=skillAutosuggest"
  ],
  "ignore_url_failures": true,
  "max_items_per_url": 20
}

Parameter	Type	Description
urls	Array	List of Caterer.com search result URLs to scrape (e.g., filtered by role, location, or keyword)
ignore_url_failures	Boolean	If true, continues scraping remaining URLs if one fails. If false, stops on first error. Default: true
max_items_per_url	Integer	Maximum number of job listings to extract per URL. Default: 20. Useful for controlling data volume and cost

Example URLs:

• Management roles: https://www.caterer.com/jobs/management
• Chefs: https://www.caterer.com/jobs/chefs
• By location: https://www.caterer.com/jobs?location=London

Tip: Use filtered search URLs to target specific roles, locations, or experience levels. The scraper captures all results visible on the page up to your max_items_per_url limit.

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Output Format

Sample output

{
  "id": 107672518,
  "title": "Area Support Manager",
  "labels": [],
  "url": "/job/area-support-manager/impact-food-group-job107672518",
  "company_id": 489033,
  "company_name": "Impact Food Group",
  "company_url": "https://www.caterer.com/jobs/impact-food-group?cmpId=489033&cmp=1",
  "company_logo_url": "https://www.caterer.com/CompanyLogos/eaba4829f2484c0db02ca4dbb9f004e2.png",
  "date_posted": "2026-07-10T14:56:48.703Z",
  "location": "Oxford (OX1)",
  "is_anonymous": false,
  "salary": "£38000.00 to £40000.00 per year  Great Benefits plus car allowance £38",
  "post_code": "OX1",
  "partnership": {
    "is_partnership_job": false,
    "show_partnership_label": false,
    "is_backfilled": false,
    "source_site_friendly_name": "",
    "is_cross_posted": false
  },
  "unified_salary": null,
  "work_from_home": "",
  "meta_data": {
    "position_on_page": 1,
    "position_absolute": 1
  },
  "harmonised_id": "a7271b7f-14b6-49b3-bd53-6d3edcad914a",
  "job_posting_sequence": 1,
  "period_posted_date": "2026-07-10T14:56:48.703Z",
  "publish_from_date": "2026-07-10T14:56:48.703Z",
  "publish_to_date": "2026-08-21T14:56:48.703Z",
  "has_future_posting": false,
  "fingerprint_count": 1,
  "section": "main",
  "top_labels": [
    {
      "label": "PREMIUM",
      "type": "PREMIUM"
    }
  ],
  "skills": [],
  "text_snippet": "Welcome to Impact Food Group (IFG). We one of England’s fastest-growing school food providers, serving around one million students every day across more than 1,500 schools. We are dedicated to delivering high-quality, nutritious meals that support student wellbeing and enjoyment. Our brands include Innovate, Cucina, Chapter One (Independent Schools), Hutchison, and Dolce, reflecting our breadth of experience and reach across the school catering sector. Are you an experienced Contract Catering Operations Support Manager who still likes to be involved with Food? Looking to make a real difference? Be part of a growing business with a powerful social impact mission. We’re not going to bore you with a long list of empty adjectives, we want one simple thing: awesome people to help us feed more children better food. Job Title: Business Support Manager (BSM)",
  "cv_to_job_score": null,
  "is_highlighted": false,
  "is_sponsored": false,
  "travel_time": null,
  "unified_travel_time": null,
  "is_top_job": false,
  "is_traffic_from_partner": false,
  "from_url": "https://www.caterer.com/jobs/management?searchOrigin=Resultlist_top-search&whatType=skillAutosuggest"
}

Each scraped listing returns 32+ structured fields:

Job Core Data

Field	Meaning
ID	Unique identifier assigned to the job listing by Caterer.com
Title	Job title as posted (e.g., "Executive Chef", "Restaurant Manager")
Labels	Categorical tags or labels assigned to the role
Top Labels	Most prominent or relevant labels for quick filtering
URL	Direct link to the full job posting
Text Snippet	Brief summary or excerpt of the job description
Section	Job category or department (e.g., "Management", "Chefs", "Front of House")

Company Information

Field	Meaning
Company ID	Unique identifier for the employer in Caterer.com's system
Company Name	Official name of the hiring company or organization
Company URL	Link to the company's profile or website
Company Logo URL	Direct URL to the company's logo image

Location & Work Details

Field	Meaning
Location	City, region, or area where the role is based
Post Code	UK postal code of the job location
Work From Home	Indicates remote or hybrid working availability
Travel Time	Estimated commute time from specified reference point
Unified Travel Time	Standardized travel time metric for comparison
Is Anonymous	Whether the employer name is hidden in the listing

Compensation & Terms

Field	Meaning
Salary	Stated salary range or hourly rate (e.g., "£25,000 - £35,000")
Unified Salary	Normalized salary figure for cross-listing comparison

Posting & Timeline

Field	Meaning
Date Posted	When the listing was published
Period Posted Date	Date range the listing has been active
Publish From Date	When the listing became publicly visible
Publish To Date	When the listing is scheduled to expire
Has Future Posting	Whether the role is scheduled to open in the future
Job Posting Sequence	Order or sequence number of the posting

Engagement & Visibility

Field	Meaning
Is Highlighted	Whether the job has paid highlighting/featured status
Is Sponsored	Whether the listing is sponsored or promoted
Is Top Job	Whether Caterer.com has ranked it as a "top" role
Is Traffic From Partner	Whether traffic metrics come from a partner integration
CV To Job Score	Relevance or match score between candidate CVs and the role
Fingerprint Count	Number of candidate applications or views tracked

Additional Metadata

Field	Meaning
Meta Data	Additional structured metadata or custom fields
Harmonised ID	Industry-standard identifier for data matching across platforms
Partnership	Whether the listing involves a recruitment partner
Skills	Extracted skill tags or requirements (e.g., "food safety", "team management")

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How to Use

1. Select your search criteria — Visit Caterer.com and apply filters (role type, location, experience level, etc.). Copy the resulting search URL.

2. Add URLs to configuration — Paste one or more search result URLs into the urls array in your input JSON.

3. Set limits — Define max_items_per_url (e.g., 20, 50, or 100) to control the number of listings extracted per URL.

4. Enable error tolerance — Keep ignore_url_failures: true for batch runs to skip any problematic URLs without interrupting the full dataset.

5. Run the scraper — Launch the job and monitor progress in the run log.

6. Download results — Export as JSON, CSV, or Excel for import into spreadsheets, databases, or analytics tools.

Best practices:

• Use specific search URLs (filtered by role or location) to get highly relevant data.
• Test with a small max_items_per_url (e.g., 20) first, then scale up.
• Combine multiple URLs in one run to collect diverse datasets efficiently.

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Use Cases & Business Value

• Talent acquisition: Monitor competitor job postings and hiring volume in real-time
• Salary research: Build compensation benchmarks across hospitality roles and regions
• Trend analysis: Track which skills, locations, and company types are hiring most
• Job aggregation: Feed Caterer.com listings into your own multi-board job portal
• Market intelligence: Identify new players entering the hospitality sector

By automating search result collection, you eliminate hours of manual copying and clicking, while gaining structured data perfect for spreadsheets, dashboards, and machine learning models.

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Conclusion

The Caterer.com Jobs Search Scraper is an efficient, reliable tool for anyone needing UK hospitality job data at scale. Whether you're a recruiter tracking talent supply, a researcher analyzing the catering market, or a platform aggregating listings, this scraper delivers the job search intelligence you need — fast and reliably.