Reed UK Jobs Extractor: Scrape Jobs and Salaries from Reed.co.uk

Reed UK Jobs Extractor is an advanced, production-grade web scraping tool built to collect comprehensive job listings directly from Reed.co.uk. It automates the extraction of employment postings, salary details, location data, company profiles, and application options in bulk.

Whether you are building job feeds, tracking recruiting patterns, collecting leads for your recruiting agency, or conducting programmatic labor market research, this scraper provides clean, structured, and normalized data without requiring any manual intervention.

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Key Features

• Multi-Keyword & Multi-Location Targeting: Input lists of keywords and locations to perform automated search matrices (cross-product pairing) in a single run.
• Complete Job Details: Extract job titles, identifiers, detailed descriptions, expiry dates, and fast application indicators.
• Salary Intelligence: Capture minimum and maximum salary ranges alongside normalized text representations, accommodating annual, daily, and hourly recruitment rates.
• Location Classification: Extract primary display locations, county-level tags, and modern workspace indicators (Remote, Hybrid, On-site).
• Independent Seed Queries: Directly supply target Reed search page URLs or listing links for fine-grained scraping control.
• Built-In Bypass Layer: Routes all traffic through a premium, built-in network bypass architecture. This protects the runner from IP blocks and captchas out of the box, guaranteeing long-term scraper reliability.
• No Configuration Overhead: Operates entirely out of the box without requiring you to buy, configure, or rotationally manage expensive proxy servers or headless browsers.

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How It Works & Cross-Product Queries

The Reed UK Jobs Extractor supports highly customizable, matrix-based searching:

1. Target Inputs: You can provide lists of keywords and locations, or direct URLs.
2. The Cross-Product Matrix: If you enter multiple keywords (e.g. ["React Developer", "Python Developer"]) and multiple locations (e.g. ["London", "Manchester"]), the actor automatically calculates all pairs:
   • React Developer in London
   • React Developer in Manchester
   • Python Developer in London
   • Python Developer in Manchester
3. Dedicated Query Boundaries: The extraction runs through each pair sequentially. To ensure fair data distribution and avoid having a single massive query consume your entire run, the maxItemsPerQuery parameter enforces a separate, non-global capping constraint for each query/URL.
4. Data Acquisition: For each page, the scraper requests data through the built-in network routing system, parsing the embedded Next.js state JSON (__NEXT_DATA__) to avoid unreliable and fragile HTML parsing.
5. Auto-Pagination: It tracks the total matching jobs and paginates through the results until your per-query limit is reached or the jobs list is fully exhausted.
6. Result Deliverables: Your extracted jobs are stored directly inside the default Apify Dataset, ready for exporting or integration.

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Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
searchUrls	array	[]	Direct Reed.co.uk search or listing URLs to scrape (one per line). If provided, keywords and locations are ignored.
keywords	array	["Software Engineer"]	Search keywords, job titles, skills, or company names (one per line).
locations	array	["London"]	Town, city, region, or postcode in the United Kingdom (one per line).
maxItemsPerQuery	integer	100	Maximum number of jobs to extract per individual search query or seed URL (maximum 1000).
requestTimeoutSecs	integer	30	Network request timeout in seconds for fetching pages.

Example Input

{
    "searchUrls": [],
    "keywords": [
        "React Developer",
        "Data Scientist"
    ],
    "locations": [
        "London",
        "Manchester"
    ],
    "maxItemsPerQuery": 50,
    "requestTimeoutSecs": 30
}

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Output Data Structure

Each scraped job record is flattened and structured inside your dataset:

{
  "jobId": 56867019,
  "jobTitle": "Senior Software Engineer",
  "jobDescription": "Senior Software Engineer (DevOps) ...",
  "jobUrl": "https://www.reed.co.uk/jobs/senior-software-engineer/56867019",
  "companyName": "Vermillion Analytics",
  "companyUrl": "https://www.reed.co.uk/jobs/vermillion-analytics/p100633",
  "companyLogo": "https://resources.reed.co.uk/profileimages/logos/thumbs/Logo_100633.png",
  "locationName": "London",
  "countyLocation": "London",
  "salaryFrom": 60000,
  "salaryTo": 75000,
  "salaryText": "£60,000 - £75,000 per annum",
  "remoteOption": "Remote",
  "isFullTime": true,
  "isPartTime": false,
  "isEasyApply": true,
  "dateCreated": "2026-05-06T14:09:00.507",
  "dateUpdated": "2026-05-18T14:17:17.513",
  "expiryDate": "2026-06-17T23:59:59",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-06-04T04:22:42.503Z"
}

Extracted Fields Specification

Field Name	Type	Description
jobId	integer	Unique identifier of the job post on Reed.co.uk.
jobTitle	string	Normalized job title.
jobDescription	string	Detailed job description, requirements, and responsibilities.
jobUrl	string	Full, direct link to the job listing page.
companyName	string	Name of the hiring company or recruitment agency.
companyUrl	string	Full link to the company's profile page on Reed.co.uk.
companyLogo	string	Full URL to the company logo thumbnail image.
locationName	string	Display name of the primary location.
countyLocation	string	Regional county location where the job is based.
salaryFrom	integer	Minimum salary range boundary.
salaryTo	integer	Maximum salary range boundary.
salaryText	string	Human-readable salary with currency symbol and type suffix.
remoteOption	string	Workspace option (Remote, Hybrid, On-site).
isFullTime	boolean	true if the position is full-time, otherwise false.
isPartTime	boolean	true if the position is part-time, otherwise false.
isEasyApply	boolean	true if the listing supports fast application, otherwise false.
dateCreated	string	ISO timestamp representing when the job was posted.
dateUpdated	string	ISO timestamp of the last listing update.
expiryDate	string	ISO timestamp of when the listing will expire.
scrapedAt	string	ISO timestamp when the scraper processed this record.

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Use Cases & Integration Potential

• Job Board Aggregation: Feed a centralized job portal or vertical job search engines with fresh, high-quality UK job posts.
• Hiring Demand Analysis: Feed HR business intelligence tools to track regional skills demands and recruitment velocities.
• Salary Auditing & Benchmarking: Conduct research on UK compensation models, comparing pay rates for similar roles across different locations or remote work arrangements.
• Agency Lead Generation: Automatically identify UK companies and agencies actively hiring for specific skill sets and reach out to offer specialized recruitment solutions.
• Continuous Integration: Connect scraped data with platform webhooks to automatically forward records to CRMs (like Salesforce or HubSpot), databases, or automation tools (like Zapier, Make, and Google Sheets).

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FAQ

Do I need to purchase a separate proxy plan or configure an account?
No. The actor operates completely independently. All network requests are automatically routed through our premium, built-in bypass infrastructure which prevents rate limiting and IP blocks.

How is maxItemsPerQuery different from a global limit?
A global limit stops the entire run once a certain total is reached, which often means only the first few queries get processed. maxItemsPerQuery applies to each individual search string or direct URL separately, allowing you to fetch an equal number of jobs (e.g. 50 jobs for React, 50 jobs for Python) in a balanced manner.

Can I run this actor continuously?
Yes. You can schedule the actor to run daily, weekly, or hourly using Apify's scheduling tool, and receive only the latest jobs.