🔍 Teaching Vacancies UK Scraper: DfE School Jobs and Change Feed

Turn public school vacancies into a hiring feed you can act on Keep salary, school context, closing dates, and application routes together, then return only meaningful changes on scheduled runs.

🏫 Official source Public DfE vacancy pages, nothing scraped from private accounts.

💷 Typed pay Salary values and periods parsed into usable numbers.

🧭 Useful filters Roles, phases, subjects, and dates narrowed before you export.

🔄 Change feed New, changed, unchanged, and removed on every scheduled run.

Find current England school vacancies, published pay, closing dates, and genuine application links from the official Teaching Vacancies service. Export to Google Sheets, Make, or Zapier, or schedule the same search to watch for new, changed, and removed roles.

🎯 What does this Actor do?

Teaching Vacancies UK Scraper collects public listings from the UK Department for Education service. It is built for recruitment teams, multi-academy trusts, education researchers, and job-feed operators.

The default run is deliberately small. It returns up to 20 listing-page records from two pages and does not fetch detail pages unless you enable enrichment. That keeps the first run quick and inexpensive.

When detail enrichment is enabled, the Actor can add full descriptions, structured salary values, posting and closing dates, application links, school websites, organisation pages, pupil counts, age ranges, and Ofsted links when the source publishes them.

💡 Who is this for?

• I am a recruitment lead at a multi-academy trust. I need every open vacancy across my schools in one export so that I can spot gaps without checking each school's page by hand.
• I am a supply-teaching agency. I need to know the moment a new vacancy posts in my region so that I can reach the school before other agencies do.
• I am an education researcher. I need typed salary and location data across many postings so that I can compare pay by phase and region.
• I am building a school-jobs feed or newsletter. I need a reliable new-and-changed signal so that I only send subscribers vacancies they have not seen yet.

🚀 How to use it

STEP 1 Choose a source Paste a public search URL or enter keywords and UK locations.

STEP 2 Set the shortlist Filter by role, phase, subject, school type, pay dates, or application readiness.

STEP 3 Run or schedule Export current roles, or use a named state for a focused change feed.

1. Add a public Teaching Vacancies search URL, or enter keywords and locations.
2. Select source-supported filters and choose whether to fetch vacancy details.
3. Run once for a current dataset, or reuse a state name for scheduled monitoring.

The Actor rejects private service paths, external hosts, and radius searches that the source does not permit. Missing source values are omitted rather than replaced with guesses.

🧾 Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
startUrls	array of URLs	No	Public Teaching Vacancies search or vacancy URLs.
searchQueries	array of strings	No	Keywords such as primary teacher, maths, or SENCO.
locations	array of strings	No	UK towns, cities, counties, or postcodes.
jobRoles	array of enums	No	Teaching and support role filters.
phases	array of enums	No	Nursery, primary, secondary, sixth form, or through.
subjects	array of strings	No	Public subject names accepted by the source.
organisationTypes	array of enums	No	Academy, local authority maintained school, or FE college.
schoolTypes	array of enums	No	Faith-school or special-school filters.
workingPatterns	array of enums	No	Full time, part time, or job share.
ectStatus	enum	No	Any, ECT suitable, or QTS not needed.
visaSponsorshipOnly	boolean	No	Keep only source-marked sponsorship vacancies.
quickApplyOnly	boolean	No	Require a public application or advert link.
sortBy	enum	No	Closing soon or newest first.
postedWithinDays	integer	No	Local date filter for recently published vacancies.
closingWithinDays	integer	No	Local date filter for upcoming closing dates.
includeDetails	boolean	No	Fetch public vacancy pages for richer fields.
detailRefreshMode	enum	No	Refresh new or summary-changed records, or every selected record.
includeOrganisationSnapshot	boolean	No	Add visible related vacancies from public organisation pages.
maxDetailRequests	integer	No	Bound optional detail work for predictable runs.
outputMode	enum	No	Current snapshot, snapshot with changes, or changes only.
stateName	string	No	Independent name for a recurring monitoring scope.
maxItems	integer	No	Maximum output rows, from 1 to 500.
maxPages	integer	No	Maximum listing pages per source URL, from 1 to 25.
proxyConfiguration	object	No	Optional Apify Proxy configuration. Direct access is the default.

📦 Default input

{
  "startUrls": [
    { "url": "https://teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/jobs" }
  ],
  "maxItems": 20,
  "maxPages": 2,
  "includeDetails": false,
  "outputMode": "snapshotAndChanges",
  "stateName": "default",
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": false }
}

📊 Data table

Field	Type	Description
recordType	string	Always job.
jobId	string	Stable source identifier or canonical vacancy slug.
title	string	Published vacancy title.
employerName	string	School or organisation name when published.
sourceUrl	URL	Canonical public vacancy page.
description	string	Source description when detail enrichment is enabled.
salaryText	string	Original published salary text.
salaryMin, salaryMax	number	Parsed salary values in pounds when safely available.
salaryCurrency	string	Usually GBP when a numeric salary is present.
salaryPeriod	string	Year, month, week, day, or hour.
salaryBasis	string	Actual, pro rata, full-time equivalent, scale, or unspecified.
datePosted, closingDate, validThrough	date-time	Source-backed vacancy dates.
jobRole, subject, phase, keyStage	string	Source role and education classifications.
schoolType, organisationType	string	Source school and organisation values.
workingPattern, contractType	string	Published work and contract details.
visaSponsorship, ectSuitable, qtsNotNeeded	string or boolean	Source-backed eligibility fields.
location, streetAddress, city, region, postalCode, country	string	Public school location fields.
pupilCount, daysUntilClosing	number	Numeric values derived only from valid source data.
organisationUrl, schoolWebsite, ofstedUrl, applyUrl	URL	Public links exposed by the vacancy page.
organisationActiveJobs	array	Visible related vacancies when organisation enrichment is enabled.
hasSalary, hasApplyUrl, hasDescription, isActive	boolean	Factual availability and monitoring flags.
changeType	string	new, changed, unchanged, or removed.
changedFields	array	Fields that changed since the prior saved state.
previousSalaryMin, previousSalaryMax, previousClosingDate	number or date-time	Previous values when a factual change is detected.
searchUrl, sourcePage, scrapedAt	URL, number, date-time	Search traceability and retrieval metadata.

🔄 Monitoring behavior

Use the same stateName for recurring runs.

• The first complete run marks current vacancies as new.
• An identical run marks them as unchanged.
• Salary, title, employer, location, eligibility, or closing-date changes become changed.
• A vacancy becomes removed only after a complete, uncapped source run.
• Partial, capped, failed, or detail-incomplete runs never infer removals.
• detailRefreshMode: "newOrChanged" reuses saved detail data for unchanged vacancies.

💰 Pricing

This Actor uses pay-per-event pricing: you pay per vacancy returned, plus a small fixed run-start charge. Empty runs do not create result-item charges, and there is no subscription requirement. Detail and organisation enrichment are included in the same result price and remain opt-in, so you control request volume.

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🔧 Tips

• Keep the default run listing-only while you check the fields, then turn on includeDetails once you need descriptions or application links.
• Give each recurring search its own stateName so separate monitors do not share a baseline.
• Use detailRefreshMode: "newOrChanged" on scheduled runs to skip re-fetching vacancies that have not changed.
• Set sortBy: "expiringSoon" or closingWithinDays when you only care about vacancies closing soon.
• Run an uncapped search occasionally so the Actor can safely detect removed vacancies.

❓ FAQ

Does it collect private candidate or reviewer information?

No. It collects public vacancy and school information only. Private accounts, candidate records, reviewer identities, and unpublished contact data are outside the scope.

Can I fetch full vacancy descriptions and application links?

Yes. Enable includeDetails. The Actor reads public vacancy pages and omits fields that the source does not publish.

Why are some detail requests skipped on later runs?

newOrChanged reuses saved details for unchanged vacancies. Select all when you need every selected detail page refreshed.

Can I monitor vacancies closing soon?

Yes. Use sortBy: "expiringSoon" or set closingWithinDays for a local closing-date filter.

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