jobs.ac.uk Scraper — UK Academic, Postdoc & Research Jobs
Pricing
from $1.50 / 1,000 job results
Extract live UK academic & research jobs from jobs.ac.uk: lectureships, postdocs, fellowships and PhD studentships. Filter by discipline, location, contract & workplace; structured salary (min/max/currency), closing dates, optional full descriptions. Delta mode returns only new postings.
Advert ID
advertId
Optional
Numeric jobs.ac.uk advert identifier read from the listing card (data-advert-id), or null. More stable than jobId for cross-run dedup.
Job ID
jobId
Optional
Stable source-side job identifier, parsed from the posting URL (e.g. 'DSC994').
ID (alias)
id
Optional
Alias of jobId — same value, kept for field-name consistency across this fleet's Actors.
Job title
title
Optional
Job title as posted, truncated to 140 characters.
Employer
company
Optional
Hiring institution / organisation, truncated to 120 characters, or null if the listing omits it.
Department
department
Optional
Hiring department / faculty as shown on the listing card, truncated to 120 characters, or null when the listing omits it.
Location
location
Optional
Location / duty station, truncated to 120 characters; defaults to 'United Kingdom' when the listing shows no city.
Is remote
isRemote
Optional
true when the listing text (or an applied 'remote' workplace filter) marks the role remote; null when the search card doesn't state a workplace type (search cards carry no explicit on-site badge).
Workplace type
workplaceType
Optional
'remote', 'hybrid' or 'on-site' when stated by the listing text or a single applied workplace filter; null otherwise.
Salary
salary
Optional
Salary text as displayed on the listing, truncated to 120 characters, or an empty string when no salary is shown.
Salary minimum
salaryMin
Optional
Lower salary figure parsed from the salary text (first figure of the headline range), or null when the listing shows no numeric salary.
Salary maximum
salaryMax
Optional
Upper salary figure parsed from the salary text (second figure of the headline range), or null when the listing shows a single figure or no numeric salary.
Salary currency
salaryCurrency
Optional
Currency of the parsed salary (GBP, EUR or USD) from the salary-text symbol, or null.
Salary period
salaryPeriod
Optional
Pay period parsed from the salary text: 'year' (per annum), 'month', 'week' or 'hour', or null when unstated.
Date posted
postedAt
Optional
ISO 8601 date (YYYY-MM-DD) the listing was placed ('Date Placed' chip), or null if it can't be parsed.
Closing date
deadline
Optional
ISO 8601 date (YYYY-MM-DD) parsed from the listing's 'Closes'/'Expires' chip, the raw unparsed chip text when it can't be parsed, or null when the listing shows no closing date.
Full description
description
Optional
Full advert text from the posting's detail page, truncated to 20,000 characters. Present only when fetchDescriptions is on; null when the detail page couldn't be fetched or parsed.
Is new
isNew
Optional
true when the record was returned under delta mode (onlyNewSinceLastRun). Present only on delta-mode runs.
Posting URL
url
Optional
Direct link to the jobs.ac.uk posting.
