🚆 RailwayPeople Jobs Scraper: UK Rail Vacancies by Role & Salary

Every current UK rail vacancy, structured and ready to use Collect job titles, full descriptions, employers, rail disciplines, contract types, dates, and salary when it is published, straight from RailwayPeople.com, the UK's dedicated rail industry job board.

📄 Full job detail Complete description, employer, dates, and salary from every posting

🛤️ Real discipline filters Signalling, civil engineering, rolling stock, rail operations, and the board's full category list

📍 Multi-site roles handled Every location a vacancy is advertised under, not just the first one listed

🔓 No login needed Reads only the public job board. No account, API key, or candidate database access

RailwayPeople Jobs Scraper collects current public vacancies from railwaypeople.com, the UK rail sector's own dedicated job board since 2001. Use it for recruitment sourcing, salary and hiring benchmarking, or building a rail-specific feed that general job boards do not carry.

🔍 What can you collect?

• Job title, direct source link, posting date, and closing date.
• Full job description, in plain text.
• Employer name, profile link, and logo when published.
• Rail discipline category, such as Signalling, Civil Engineering, Rolling Stock, or Rail Operations.
• Employment type (Full Time, Permanent, Contract, Temporary, and more) and work arrangement.
• Location, including every site a multi-location role is advertised under.
• Salary minimum, maximum, currency, and pay period, when the employer has published one.

Missing optional values, such as salary on postings that do not publish one, are left out rather than filled with a placeholder.

🎯 Who uses this data?

• I am a rail sector recruiter sourcing candidates for signalling, civils, or rolling stock roles without clicking through every listing by hand.
• I am an HR lead at a rail infrastructure or engineering firm benchmarking salaries and hiring volume against the rest of the sector before posting a role.
• I am a market researcher tracking UK rail industry hiring trends over time.
• I am a job-data product manager adding rail-specific vacancies to a feed that general job boards do not cover.

🚀 How it works

STEP 1 Set your filters Keyword, discipline category, contract type, work arrangement. Leave them blank to pull the current listing.

STEP 2 Run the Actor It reads the board's own search results, then opens each job for the full posting.

STEP 3 Use the results Export the dataset, or schedule the Actor for a recurring hiring feed.

Every saved job requires its own detail page request, since the full description, contract type, and precise salary live there rather than on the search results page. RailwayPeople's own robots.txt asks for a short gap between requests, so a larger maxItems takes proportionally longer to finish.

📋 Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
keywords	string	No	Free-text search term, such as Signalling or Project Manager. Leave blank to pull the current listing instead of a keyword match.
jobCategories	array of enum	No	Limit results to one or more rail discipline categories, taken from the board's own taxonomy. Leave empty to include every category.
employmentTypes	array of enum	No	Limit results to one or more contract types: Full Time, Permanent, Contract, Contract or Permanent, Temporary, Fixed Term Contract, Zero Hours Contract.
workArrangement	array of enum	No	Limit results to In Person or Hybrid roles. Leave empty to include both.
maxItems	integer	No	Maximum number of job postings to collect in this run.
proxyConfiguration	object	No	Apify's datacenter proxy is used by default and is reliable for this source. Residential proxies are not required.

📤 Output example

Each saved item represents one genuine RailwayPeople vacancy.

{
    "jobId": "58440",
    "url": "https://www.railwaypeople.com/job/olec-3-engineers-58440",
    "title": "OLEC 3 Engineers",
    "description": "OLEC 3 - Contract Opportunity\nLocation: Old Oak Common\n...",
    "category": "Overhead Line Engineering",
    "categoryId": "542",
    "employmentType": "FULL_TIME",
    "directApply": true,
    "applicationWorkflow": "internal",
    "isFeatured": false,
    "isTopJob": true,
    "datePosted": "2026-09-25T14:10:47+01:00",
    "validThrough": "2026-10-23T14:10:47+01:00",
    "organizationName": "Ganymede",
    "organizationUrl": "https://www.railwaypeople.com/organization/ganymede",
    "organizationLogoUrl": "https://www.railwaypeople.com/sites/default/files/styles/job_squared_logo_medium/public/org_logos/example.png",
    "location": "London Borough of Ealing, UK",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-01T10:19:49.800Z"
}

📊 Data table

Field	Type	Description
jobId	string	RailwayPeople's own internal job identifier.
url	string	Direct link to the public job posting.
title	string	Published job title.
description	string	Full published description, in plain text.
category	string	Primary rail discipline category.
categoryId	string	The board's own identifier for that category.
additionalCategories	array	Any further categories the job is also tagged with.
employmentType	string	Published employment type, such as FULL_TIME or CONTRACTOR.
workArrangement	string	Published work arrangement, such as In Person or Hybrid, when stated.
directApply	boolean	Whether the posting supports applying directly through RailwayPeople.
applicationWorkflow	string	How the application is routed by the board.
isFeatured	boolean	Whether RailwayPeople marks the listing as featured.
isTopJob	boolean	Whether RailwayPeople marks the listing as a top job.
datePosted	string	Publication date.
validThrough	string	Closing date, when published.
organizationName	string	Employer name.
organizationUrl	string	Employer's RailwayPeople profile link.
organizationLogoUrl	string	Employer logo, when published.
location	string	Primary advertised location.
additionalLocations	array	Any further locations the role is advertised under.
salaryMin	number	Minimum published salary, when the employer provides one.
salaryMax	number	Maximum published salary, when the employer provides one.
salaryCurrency	string	Published salary currency.
salaryUnit	string	Published salary period, such as YEAR.
scrapedAt	string	Time the job was collected.

🗂️ Output

• 🚆 Job Listings: The primary overview, with title, employer, category, employment type, location, and dates.
• 📍 Location & Salary: Every advertised location alongside published salary details.

💰 Pricing

Pricing is pay per result: $1.50 per 1,000 jobs. You are not charged for empty runs. There is no fixed subscription.

Free-plan runs are limited to 25 jobs per run, 3 runs per day, and a short wait between runs.

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❓ FAQ

Does this cover every rail job in the UK?

No. It covers what is currently published on RailwayPeople.com, a dedicated rail industry board with roughly 100 to 270 live postings at any time. It does not aggregate from other job boards.

Can I filter to a specific discipline, like signalling or civils?

Yes. Use jobCategories with the board's own category list, which covers engineering disciplines, construction, operations, and support roles across the rail sector.

How fresh is the data?

Each run reads whatever is live on the board at that moment. Schedule the Actor on Apify for a recurring hiring feed.

What happens when a field is not published, like salary?

It is left out of that job's record rather than filled with a placeholder. Most postings on this board do not publish a salary.

🛟 Support and responsible use

This Actor collects public job-posting data and is not affiliated with RailwayPeople.com. Follow applicable terms, privacy rules, and local laws when using the results.

If a run does not match what you expect, open the Issues tab and share the run link.

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