UK Government & NHS Jobs Scraper

What is UK Government & NHS Jobs Scraper?

Three boards carry most UK public sector hiring: NHS Jobs, Civil Service Jobs and the Ministry of Justice careers portal. UK Government & NHS Jobs Scraper searches all three in one run and gives you the vacancies in a single schema, so a Band 5 nurse, an HMRC caseworker and a prison officer sit in the same table with the same column names and the salary parsed into numbers.

Enter keywords and a place. That's a full run across central government (the Home Office, HMRC, HMCTS and the other departments all recruit through Civil Service Jobs), the NHS in England and Wales, and the prison, probation and courts estate.

What makes it worth choosing:

• One schema, three sources. You write your pipeline once. Board-specific columns are added beside the shared ones, never in place of them.
• The whole Civil Service board, then only the changes. One run returned all 1,305 live adverts in 3 minutes. Scheduled daily, later runs return only adverts that are new or were edited, and an unchanged advert costs nothing.
• You filter the way each board does. NHS pay band and staff group, Civil Service grade and department, MoJ prison, court and salary band are applied by the boards themselves.
• You get the full advert, and it's been checked. In our release run, 11 of 11 sampled NHS and MoJ adverts matched the boards' own pages.
• $0.80 per 1,000 jobs with full details on the Free plan, proxy usage included.

BonCross Verified means we tested this actor against the live site before release and kept the record:

• 56 of 56 live checks on its inputs and filters passed on 7 October 2026
• 18 searches run the same day across the NHS, Civil Service and MoJ boards: 58 jobs, no error rows
• 11 of 11 sampled NHS and MoJ adverts matched the boards' own pages
• Charges checked against the 58 rows

It's used to feed public sector job boards from all three sources at once, to watch a department, trust or grade daily, to compare NHS pay bands and Civil Service grades by region, and to track recruitment volumes across government as a labour-market indicator.

What data can you extract?

🏛 Source board and vacancy reference	💼 Job title
🏥 Employer or department	📍 Location, town and postcode
💷 Salary minimum, maximum and period	Salary text as published
NHS band and pay scheme	Civil Service or MoJ grade
Contract type	Working pattern
📅 Posting date	⏳ Closing date and closing text
📄 Full description and summary	Duties
Person specification, essential and desirable	Civil Service behaviours
Benefits	DBS check requirement
☎️ Contact name, email and phone	🔗 Apply link and advert URL

How to scrape UK public sector jobs

1. Create a free Apify account and open UK Government & NHS Jobs Scraper.
2. Leave all three boards ticked, or untick the ones you don't want.
3. Add keywords and a location, with a distance in miles.
4. Add board-specific filters if you need them. A filter only affects the board it names.
5. Press Start, and download the vacancies as Excel, CSV, JSON, XML or HTML when it's done.

⬇️ Input

Keywords and a location are all you need. By default all three boards are searched and the full page of each vacancy is fetched. Adverts that have already closed are dropped unless "Closing on or after" says otherwise.

There are two limits. "Max jobs per search" (default 100) applies to each combination of keyword, location and board, so ten combinations at 50 each can return 500. "Maximum results for the whole run" caps the jobs you're charged for across the run, and 0 means no cap.

One search across all three boards

{
  "keywords": ["administrator", "caseworker"],
  "locations": ["London"],
  "distanceMiles": 10,
  "sources": ["nhs", "csj", "moj"],
  "maxJobsPerSearch": 40,
  "fetchDetails": true
}

NHS band 5 and 6 nursing roles, closing soonest first

{
  "sources": ["nhs"],
  "keywords": ["staff nurse"],
  "locations": ["Manchester", "Leeds"],
  "distanceMiles": 15,
  "nhsPayBands": ["BAND_5", "BAND_6"],
  "nhsContractTypes": ["Permanent"],
  "nhsWorkingPatterns": ["full-time"],
  "sortBy": "closing"
}

Civil Service roles at named departments above a salary

{
  "sources": ["csj"],
  "keywords": ["officer"],
  "locations": ["Croydon", "Leeds"],
  "departments": ["Home Office", "HM Revenue and Customs"],
  "salaryMin": 30000
}

A daily monitor with only-new results

{
  "keywords": ["paralegal", "legal assistant", "court officer"],
  "locations": ["London"],
  "titleExclude": ["senior", "manager"],
  "postedWithinDays": 2,
  "dedupStoreName": "uk-public-legal-seen"
}

The whole Civil Service board, then only what changed

{
  "sources": ["csj"],
  "csjScope": "changedSinceLastRun",
  "dedupStoreName": "csj-whole-board"
}

Your first run returns every live Civil Service advert. Schedule it daily with the same store name and each later run returns only the adverts that are new or were edited since the run before.

Field	Notes
sources	Any of nhs, csj, moj. All three by default.
keywords, locations, distanceMiles	Search terms, places and a radius in miles. On NHS Jobs a place may end with its nation after a comma ("Newport, Wales", "Newport, England") to say which of several same-named places you mean.
maxJobsPerSearch, maxItems, maxNewJobs	The per-search cap, the run-wide cap, and a cap on jobs returned.
sortBy	Newest, closing soonest, relevance, salary high to low or low to high, or nearest first (needs a location). NHS Jobs and Civil Service Jobs apply it; MoJ rows keep the board's own order.
postedWithinDays, closingAfter, titleInclude, titleExclude, salaryMin	Filters applied across all boards.
departments, employers	Match the department or employer name on any board where the listing shows one.
csjGrades, csjRoleTypes, csjWorkingPatterns, csjContractTypes	Civil Service Jobs filters for grade, job category, working pattern and contract type, applied by Civil Service Jobs.
nhsContractTypes, nhsWorkingPatterns, nhsPayBands, nhsPayRanges, nhsStaffGroups, nhsSalaryFrom, nhsSalaryTo	NHS Jobs filters, applied by NHS Jobs. nhsSalaryFrom and nhsSalaryTo are its own salary range in whole pounds a year; either end may be left at 0.
mojRegions, mojEmployment, mojGrades, mojWorkingPatterns, mojRoleTypes, mojOrganisation, mojPlaces, mojSalaryBands	Ministry of Justice filters, applied by the MoJ portal. mojPlaces takes named prisons, courts and probation offices ("Belmarsh", "HMP Wandsworth", "Wandsworth County Court"), several combined as either-or, and replaces your locations on this board; mojSalaryBands takes the portal's bands (30001-40000, 50001-60000…), and an advert spanning two bands matches either. mojRoleTypes takes the portal's role types ("Prison Officer", "Probation Officer", "Legal Services"…), several combined as either-or; mojOrganisation takes one organisation ("HMPPS - Public Sector Prisons", "HMPPS - Probation Service", "AGY - HMCTS"…).
fetchDetails, includeRawData, dedupStoreName	Detail fetching, raw payloads and the only-new store.
csjScope	Civil Service Jobs only: search (default) runs your keywords and locations; wholeBoard returns every live advert, newest change first; changedSinceLastRun returns only adverts new or edited since the last run with the same dedupStoreName. In both whole-board options keywords, locations, distance, sort and maxJobsPerSearch do not apply to Civil Service Jobs, and the other filters are applied to each advert after it is read.
maxConcurrency, delayMs	How many requests run at once, and an optional pause before each one (0 by default, at most 2,000 ms).

For developers

• titleInclude, titleExclude, departments, employers and postedWithinDays are checked on the search results. A job they remove costs job-scanned only, as do duplicates and jobs an only-new store has already seen.
• A job whose advert was fetched is charged job-detail even if a later check (salary, or the MoJ location text) then drops it.
• dedupStoreName names the store that remembers what earlier runs returned. maxNewJobs caps how many a run returns.
• With csjScope set to wholeBoard or changedSinceLastRun, there's no keyword or location search on Civil Service Jobs. The title, department, employer, salary, closing-date and Civil Service filters are checked on each advert after it's read, so an advert they remove is still charged job-detail and counts toward maxItems. An advert that has already closed is left out free. An advert whose page can't be read is an uncharged row with an error, and it's tried again on the next run.
• maxConcurrency (default 16, from 1 to 32) and delayMs (default 0, at most 2,000 ms) control pacing.
• Rows arrive in a fixed order: board, then keyword, then location, then the board's own ranking. Two runs of one input read the same way.
• If Apify moves a run to another server midway, it resumes at the point it stopped, and no vacancy is returned or charged twice.

⬆️ Output

You get one record per vacancy, in one schema across the three boards.

{
  "source": "nhs",
  "sourceName": "NHS Jobs",
  "id": "C9197-26-0826",
  "reference": "197-AO8698",
  "url": "https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9197-26-0826",
  "title": "Therapy Assistant Practitioner",
  "employer": "Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust",
  "location": "London SE18 4QH",
  "address": "Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Stadium Road, London, SE18 4QH, United Kingdom",
  "postcode": "SE18 4QH",
  "town": "London",
  "salaryText": "£28,392 to £31,157 a year per annum plus HCAS",
  "salaryMin": 28392,
  "salaryMax": 31157,
  "salaryPeriod": "year",
  "salaryCurrency": "GBP",
  "band": "Band 4",
  "payScheme": "Agenda for change",
  "contractType": "Permanent",
  "workingPattern": "Full-time",
  "postedAt": "2026-09-08",
  "closingAt": "2026-09-20",
  "summary": "An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and flexible individual to join a friendly and dynamic service at Lewisham and Greenwich Trust…",
  "duties": "The Physiotherapy Assistant Practitioner is able to carry out a full episode of care from assessment to discharge, for a specified and designated clinical caseload identified by a qualified clinician.",
  "personSpecification": [
    { "category": "Qualifications & Training", "essential": ["Evidence of study to or attainment of NVQ Level III, relevant qualification or equivalent knowledge and experience"], "desirable": [] },
    { "category": "Experience", "essential": ["Experience of working clinically in physiotherapy / occupational therapy service", "…"], "desirable": ["Community and acute experience", "…"] }
  ],
  "personSpecificationText": "Qualifications & Training\nEvidence of study to or attainment of NVQ Level III…",
  "dbsCheck": "This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service…",
  "ukRegistration": "Applicants must have current UK professional registration…",
  "contact": { "name": "Danielle Cotton", "jobTitle": "Inpatient Physiotherapy Lead", "email": "Danielle.cotton1@nhs.net", "phone": "07551100500" },
  "applyUrl": "https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9197-26-0826/ats-direct-apply",
  "searchKeywords": "administrator",
  "searchLocation": "London",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-08T17:50:48.645Z"
}

Civil Service rows add typeOfRole, numberOfJobs, closingText, behaviours, technicalSkills, qualifications and benefits. They hold the person specification as text in personSpecificationText. The structured essential and desirable lists are NHS only.

Some columns are published by one board and not the others:

Column	Board	Meaning
grade	Civil Service, MoJ	The grades the post is open at, as a list (e.g. ["Executive Officer"] or ["AO"])
department	Civil Service	The employing department
security	Civil Service	The security clearance the post needs
nationality	Civil Service	Who may apply, e.g. "Open to UK nationals only."
selectionProcess	Civil Service, MoJ	How candidates are assessed (Success Profiles, experience questions and so on)
furtherInformation	Civil Service, MoJ	The advert's closing information: appointment rules, reserve lists, nationality rules
workingForCivilService	Civil Service	The Civil Service Code section
interviewDates, reserveList, allowance	MoJ	Interview dates as the advert gives them, how long a reserve list is held, and any allowance (e.g. a prison allowance)
contractDuration, ukRegistration, dbsCheck	NHS	How long a fixed-term post lasts, the professional registration the post needs, and the criminal-record check sentence
employerAccreditations	NHS	The schemes the employer is accredited under, e.g. "Disability Confident Committed", "Veteran Aware"
supportingDocuments	NHS	The names of the documents attached to the advert, such as the job description (downloaded from the advert itself)
aboutEmployer, employerWebsite	NHS	The trust's own description of itself, and its website
businessUnit, regions, vacancyApproach	MoJ	The prison or unit, the regions, and whether the vacancy is open externally
attachments	MoJ	Linked documents such as the job description, as {url, name}
updatedAt	Civil Service, whole-board options	When the board last changed the advert
detailError	all	Present only when an advert could not be read; the row then carries the listing fields alone
descriptionHtml	all	The full advert as HTML, beside the plain-text description

How much does it cost to scrape NHS, Civil Service and MoJ jobs?

Event	Free plan	Starter	Scale	Business
actor-start, per run	$0.002	$0.002	$0.002	$0.002
job-scanned, per result card seen, before filters	$0.00005	$0.00005	$0.00005	$0.00005
job-detail, per job returned with its full page	$0.0008	$0.00072	$0.00064	$0.00056
job-listed, per job returned from listing data only	$0.0002	$0.00018	$0.00016	$0.00014

Enterprise plans pay the Business price.

$0.80 per 1,000 jobs with full details on the Free plan, $0.56 on Business. Proxy usage and platform usage are included.

• A search that scans 97 cards and returns 97 jobs with details: $0.002 + 97 × $0.00005 + 97 × $0.0008 = $0.084 ($0.061 on Business).
• A daily monitor over three boards that scans 400 cards and finds 25 new adverts: $0.002 + 400 × $0.00005 + 25 × $0.0008 = $0.042 ($0.036 on Business).
• The whole Civil Service board at 1,361 adverts: $0.002 + 1,361 × $0.00005 + 1,361 × $0.0008 = $1.16 ($0.83 on Business).
• A daily changed-only run that finds 100 new or edited adverts: $0.002 + 100 × $0.00005 + 100 × $0.0008 = $0.087 ($0.063 on Business). Adverts that didn't change aren't charged at all.

A run of 100 jobs with details costs about $0.087. Apify's Free plan includes $5 of credits a month, which is about 57 such runs, or roughly 5,700 jobs.

How many jobs, and how fast?

All three boards with details on, measured on Apify on 2 October 2026 (whole-board runs on 5 October):

Run	Jobs returned	Time
"administrator" in London within 10 miles, up to 8 per search	20, all with full details	14 to 20 seconds
"analyst" and "administrator" in London within 10 miles, up to 30 per search	92 (NHS 42, Civil Service 46, MoJ 4), all with full details	35 to 36 seconds
"administrator", "analyst" and "officer" in London within 10 miles, up to 100 per search	322, all with full details	44 to 51 seconds
The whole Civil Service Jobs board (csjScope: "wholeBoard"), 5 October 2026	1,305, all with full details	3 minutes
The same board the next run, csjScope: "changedSinceLastRun", nothing edited in between	0	8 seconds

Larger runs settle at about 400 jobs a minute with full details. Each of the city searches above gave you all three boards in under a minute.

How full are the NHS details? On 47 NHS adverts (8 September 2026), salary numbers were on 34, because the others publish "depending on experience" text. Band was on 26, person specification on 46 and contact on 47.

Limits, board by board

Coverage

• The Home Office's own careers site isn't covered, and you don't need it: its vacancies are all on Civil Service Jobs. Use departments: ["Home Office"].
• GOV.UK Find a Job, NHS Scotland, jobs.ac.uk and local government boards aren't included.
• If a board can't be searched, you get an uncharged row with the search and an error message, and the run carries on with the others.
• An advert withdrawn between the search and the detail fetch reaches you listing-only with a detailError, billed as job-listed.

Civil Service Jobs

• postedAt is null. The board publishes a closing date and no posting date, so you can't narrow its rows with "Posted within (days)".
• It publishes salary text and up to two grade labels, with no numeric band beyond what the advert states.
• You get overseas and offshore adverts (Cyprus, the Falkland Islands, NATO posts and the like) when your search has no location, or when the location is the overseas place itself. "Cyprus", "Falkland Islands" or "Belgium" returns the adverts whose own location names that place (a Cyprus post listed as "RAF Akrotiri or Episkopi" counts as Cyprus). The radius doesn't apply to them, and a UK place search leaves them out.
• A location the board doesn't recognise as a UK place (a misspelling, or a country) returns no UK adverts from it, with a warning in the log. You don't get the whole board by accident.

Ministry of Justice

• "MoJ places" takes the portal's own names: prisons by name ("Belmarsh", and "HMP Belmarsh" also works), courts in full ("Wandsworth County Court"). Adverts covering many prisons are listed under each one, so you'll see a national recruitment campaign once for every prison it names.
• If your location is a city that names a region (London, Manchester, Cardiff, Edinburgh and so on), that region is searched. Any other town on the portal's own town list (Durham, for example) uses the portal's town filter. A place it doesn't list searches nationally and is then filtered on the advert's location text.
• departments and employers filter on the name shown in the search results. MoJ results usually show no business unit there, so most MoJ rows pass those two filters untouched. Check businessUnit in your results.
• MoJ rows keep the portal's own order whatever "Sort" says.

NHS Jobs

• If you give a place name the board can't pin to one place (such as "Newport", in Wales and in several English counties) it's looked up once in each UK nation and searched in the nation where the board has the most adverts for it. "Newport" means Newport, Wales (56 nurse adverts against 26 for England, measured). The run log and the nhsPlaces entry of the run's STATS record say which nation was used and the counts for the others.
• To choose for yourself, add the nation after a comma: "Newport, England". Within a nation the board picks the place, so for a smaller place with a common name ("Richmond") give a postcode or a fuller name ("Richmond upon Thames"). Only NHS Jobs reads the nation. The other two boards receive the location as typed.

FAQ

Which boards does it cover, and where's the Home Office?

NHS Jobs, Civil Service Jobs and the Ministry of Justice careers portal. Civil Service Jobs has every central government department, so the Home Office, HMRC and HMCTS all arrive through that source.

How do I watch the whole Civil Service for new and edited adverts?

Set "Civil Service Jobs: whole board" to changedSinceLastRun, name an only-new store, and schedule the run daily. The first run takes the whole board. After that you get only what's new or edited, and when nothing changed we measured a run of 8 seconds returning 0 rows.

Can I get only new vacancies from all three boards?

Name an "Only-new store name" and schedule the run. Each run returns only adverts it hasn't returned before.

Why do some jobs have no posting date?

They're Civil Service Jobs rows. That board doesn't publish one, and those rows have a closing date. NHS Jobs and MoJ rows have both dates.

Is the salary always a number?

Only where the advert states one. NHS adverts that say "depending on experience" have salary text and no numbers, which was 13 of 47 on the measured run.

How do I filter to one department or one trust?

Put the name you want in "Civil Service departments" or "NHS employers". Each keeps rows whose department or employer name contains one of your terms, on any board that shows one. For Civil Service only, set the boards to csj as well.

I only want NHS vacancies. Is this the right actor?

It works, but NHS Jobs Scraper is the same data with a form built around bands, staff groups and trusts.

Do I need proxies, an account or an API key for any of the boards?

None of those. All three boards are searched as a logged-out visitor, and proxy usage is included in the price.

Is scraping these sites legal?

These are public sector job adverts, published to be found, and the actor reads only what the boards show a logged-out visitor. Scraping publicly available data is generally legal. Contact names and emails inside adverts are personal data, though, so handle them in line with the law that applies to you.

Schedules, API and AI agents

A daily schedule with an only-new store is what turns this into a monitor, and a webhook or the Slack integration can pass on each day's new vacancies. Google Sheets, Airbyte, Zapier and Make connect through Apify's integrations.

From code: POST https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/boncross~uk-public-sector-jobs/run-sync-get-dataset-items with the input JSON as the body returns the vacancies in one call for a short run. Use the standard run endpoints, or apify-client for Node.js or Python, for the whole-board runs.

Add the Apify MCP server (mcp.apify.com) to an MCP-capable client and an agent can call the actor by name, for instance to pull this week's Grade 7 policy roles in Leeds and summarise the person specifications.

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Your feedback

Three boards means three sets of quirks, and we'd like to hear about the ones we've missed. Open an issue from the Issues tab in Apify Console with the board and the advert. BonCross reads them all and replies there.