JobServe Scraper — UK IT & Contract Jobs, No Phones

Get job ads from JobServe (jobserve.com), the UK job board for IT, engineering and contract work: title, the recruitment agency or employer behind the ad, location, the day rate or salary as JobServe shows it plus its minimum, maximum, period and IR35 status, job type, industries, posted and start dates, contract length — and, if you want, the full ad, JobServe's job number and the closing date. Paste your JobServe search links — or just type a skill and a place.

Why this one

• 🔗 Your search, as you set it up. Run a search on jobserve.com and paste the link. Or type keywords and places here — "devops" in "Manchester", "SAP" in "EC2A" — and choose distance, job type, "posted within", remote working and agency or direct employer below.
• ⚡ Fast, 200 jobs a request. A live run read 1,562 jobs from three searches in 75 seconds; another read 2,019 jobs in 5 minutes — 2,000 of JobServe's 8,459 "engineer" jobs and all 19 contract devops jobs around Manchester, 49 of them with the full ad.
• 💷 Day rates you can sort by. Next to JobServe's rate line ("£420 PD Inside IR35", "Up to £65K + Bonus") every job has salaryMin, salaryMax, salaryPeriod (hour, day, week, month, year, shift), salaryCurrency and ir35 (inside / outside). When the ad hides the numbers ("TBC", "Competitive") they stay empty.
• 🏢 Agency or employer, at a glance. advertiserType says whether a recruitment agency ("employment business" / "employment agency") or the employer itself posted the job. JobServe's own "posted by" filter changes nothing; here it works — in a live run 39 of 1,069 permanent engineer jobs around Birmingham came straight from the employer.
• 🔒 No phone numbers, no recruiter names. Agencies and employers are named by their company name only; the recruiter JobServe names on each job page is never read. Phone numbers and e-mail addresses in the ad text are replaced with [phone removed] / [e-mail removed], and sentences that name a contact person ("call Sarah on …", "enquiries should be directed to Mr …") are taken out.
• 💸 You pay only for jobs delivered. A link that is not a JobServe search, or a place JobServe does not know, comes back as a free record with the reason.

What you get

For every job:

Field	What it is
title, jobId, url, permalink	the job ad, and JobServe's short link to it
advertiser, advertiserType, isAgency, logo	who posted it — employment business, employment agency (recruiters) or employer — by company name
location	where the job is, as JobServe shows it
rate, salaryMin, salaryMax, salaryPeriod, salaryCurrency, ir35	the rate or salary line, and its numbers
jobType, industries	Permanent, Contract, Contract/Permanent or Part Time/Temporary/Seasonal; JobServe's industries
postedAt, startDate, duration	when it was posted (UK time), when it starts, how long a contract runs
reference	the advertiser's own reference, when it is a code
snippet	the start of the ad (about 500 characters)
input, place, position, scrapedAt, status, error	which search it came from, and why a search gave nothing

With Full ad for the first 50 jobs also: description, employmentType, jobServeRef (JobServe's job number), expiresAt, city, region, country, workEligibility — and detailsError for a job whose page was not opened or is gone.

Example

A real record from a live run with the full ad — contract "devops" jobs within 50 miles of Manchester, 26 September 2026:

{
  "input": "devops in Manchester",
  "place": "Manchester",
  "position": 5,
  "jobId": "349E56ECA8587166A1",
  "url": "https://www.jobserve.com/gb/en/search-jobs-in-Manchester,-Lancashire,-United-Kingdom/TEST-ENGINEER-SFIA-LEVEL-4-349E56ECA8587166A1/",
  "permalink": "https://www.jobserve.com/g3THi",
  "title": "Test Engineer (SFIA Level 4)",
  "advertiser": "Layer7",
  "advertiserType": "employer",
  "isAgency": false,
  "location": "Manchester, UK",
  "rate": "£420 PD Inside IR35",
  "salaryMin": 420,
  "salaryMax": 420,
  "salaryPeriod": "day",
  "salaryCurrency": "GBP",
  "ir35": "inside",
  "jobType": "Contract",
  "industries": ["IT"],
  "postedAt": "2026-09-22T07:00:40",
  "startDate": null,
  "duration": null,
  "reference": "JSTESSIFA4",
  "snippet": "Rate: £420.00 per day Inside IR35 Location: Hybrid with occasional onsite attendance in Newcastle or Manchester Security Clearance: Active SC Clearance required…",
  "logo": null,
  "description": "Rate: £420.00 per day Inside IR35\nLocation: Hybrid with occasional onsite attendance in Newcastle or Manchester\nSecurity Clearance: Active SC Clearance required\nRole Overview\nWe are seeking an experienced Test Engineer (SFIA Level…",
  "employmentType": "CONTRACTOR",
  "jobServeRef": "486716980-1",
  "expiresAt": "2026-10-06T07:00+00:00",
  "city": "Manchester",
  "region": "Lancashire",
  "country": "United Kingdom",
  "workEligibility": "Applicants must be eligible to work in the specified location",
  "status": "OK",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-26T05:59:05.969Z"
}

How to use it

1. Paste Search links from jobserve.com, one per line — or type Keywords and Places (every keyword is searched in every place) and choose the filters.
2. Set Max jobs per search, and tick Full ad for the first 50 jobs if you need whole descriptions.
3. Press Start, and download the results from the Output tab as JSON, CSV or Excel.

To follow new jobs, save your input as a task with Posted within set to 1 day and schedule it daily.

You can also call it from the Apify API, from Make, Zapier or n8n, or from an AI agent through the Apify MCP server.

Pricing

You are charged per job delivered — see the price on this page. The full ads cost nothing extra. Links that are not JobServe searches and places JobServe does not know are free.

FAQ

How many jobs per search? As many as JobServe finds. JobServe searches the jobs of the last 7 days; the run reads its list 200 jobs at a time, without repeats — a live run read 2,000 of 8,459 "engineer" jobs in 10 pages. Set Max jobs per search as high as you need.

Why only 50 full ads a run? JobServe limits how many pages one IP address may open in a short time. In live runs it began sending empty job pages after 215 and after 92 job pages had been opened within minutes, then empty list pages too; a run that carried on was blocked, and the IP got normal pages again 10 to 20 minutes later. So a run reads all its lists first, then opens at most 50 job pages, one every 3 seconds, and stops at the first empty page — the jobs still come, with every list field and the start of the ad in snippet. For more full ads, run again later.

What if JobServe slows the run down? The run waits on the same connection (1 minute, then 3) and, if JobServe still refuses, ends that search with a free FAILED record that says so; the jobs found before stay in the dataset. It never switches to other IP addresses to get around the limit.

Are the filters obeyed? JobServe applies them. In live runs 30 of 30 jobs of a contract search around Leeds and 19 of 19 around Manchester were contracts; a pasted contract search gave 30 contracts and 2 "Contract/Permanent" jobs, which JobServe counts as contracts too. "Posted by" is applied by the run itself, for search links too.

What about towns with the same name? JobServe knows eight Newports. "Newport" alone comes back as a free record listing them ("Newport, Gwent", "Newport, Isle of Wight", …); write the one you mean with its county after a comma. A place JobServe does not know ("Nowhereville") gives a free NOT_FOUND record.

Why does the same job show up in two of my searches? Each search gets the jobs JobServe shows for it, without repeats. Searches overlap: 15 jobs came in both "devops" around Manchester and "engineer" in a live run. Use jobId to drop them if you combine searches.

Why no phone numbers or recruiter names? They are personal data. Every job has its url, and applicants apply on JobServe. The contact person JobServe shows on each job page is never read; in the ad text phone numbers, e-mail addresses and sentences that name a contact are taken out by rules. Rules can miss an unusual wording; a scan of 2,019 jobs from a live run (49 with the full ad) found no phone number, e-mail address or contact name.

Is this affiliated with JobServe? No. This is an independent tool that reads public job ads on jobserve.com.

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