jobs.ac.uk Scraper — UK Academic & Research Jobs

Scrape current academic and research vacancies from jobs.ac.uk — the UK and Europe's leading academic job board.

What jobs.ac.uk data does this scraper extract?

Each result is one flat JSON record per job posting:

Field	Meaning
advertId	Numeric jobs.ac.uk advert identifier from the listing card, or null. More stable than jobId for cross-run dedup
jobId	Stable source-side job identifier, parsed from the posting URL (e.g. DSC994)
id	Alias of jobId — same value, kept for field-name consistency across our Actors
title	Job title as posted
company	Hiring institution / organisation, or null if the listing omits it
department	Hiring department / faculty, or null when the listing omits it
location	Location / duty station; defaults to "United Kingdom" when the listing shows no city
isRemote	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
workplaceType	"remote", "hybrid" or "on-site" when stated by the listing text or a single applied workplace filter; null otherwise
salary	Salary text as displayed on the listing, or "" when no salary is shown
salaryMin	Lower salary figure parsed from the salary text, or null when the listing shows no numeric salary
salaryMax	Upper salary figure parsed from the salary text, or null for a single-figure or non-numeric salary
salaryCurrency	Currency of the parsed salary (GBP/EUR/USD), or null
salaryPeriod	Pay period parsed from the salary text: "year", "month", "week", "hour", or null
postedAt	ISO 8601 date (YYYY-MM-DD) the listing was placed, or null if it can't be parsed
deadline	ISO 8601 date (YYYY-MM-DD) parsed from the listing's "Closes"/"Expires" chip, the raw text when it can't be parsed, or null when the listing shows no closing date
isNew	true when the record was returned under delta mode (onlyNewSinceLastRun); present only on delta-mode runs
description	Full advert text from the posting's detail page; present only with fetchDescriptions on, null when the detail page couldn't be read
url	Direct link to the posting

Note: jobs.ac.uk's search-results page shows title, department, employer, location, salary and dates only — no excerpt text. Turn on fetchDescriptions to also fetch each posting's detail page and get the full advert text in description. salaryMin/salaryMax/salaryCurrency/salaryPeriod are parsed from the displayed salary text.

How to scrape jobs.ac.uk with this Actor

1. Click Try for free / Run — no login to the target site, no cookies, no proxies to configure.
2. Adjust the input (keyword, filters, maxItems) or keep the defaults.
3. Run it and export the dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read it over the API.

Run it from your own code:

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("nomad-agent/jobs-ac-uk-scraper").call(run_input={"maxItems": 50})
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item["title"], "—", item["company"], item["url"])

Or a single HTTP call that runs the Actor and returns items in one response:

curl -X POST \
  "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/nomad-agent~jobs-ac-uk-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"maxItems": 50}'

Input

Field	Type	Default	Notes
keywords	array	(built-in defaults)	List of keyword queries to fan across. Each keyword is searched separately and results are merged (deduped by URL). Leave empty to use the built-in defaults spanning both humanities/social-science and STEM/health: social science, politics, psychology, humanities, international development, research, computer science, engineering, biology, medicine.
disciplines	array	(all)	Filter by discipline facet (server-side). See slug list below. Unknown values are ignored with a warning.
location	array	(all)	Filter by location region/city facet slug (server-side), e.g. england, scotland, greater-london, manchester, edinburgh. Values are lowercased/hyphenated automatically. An unrecognised slug returns 0 results.
studentshipType	array	(all)	Filter to studentships: phds, masters.
contractType	array	(all)	Filter by contract: permanent, fixed-term-contract, temporary.
hours	array	(all)	Filter by hours: full-time, part-time.
workplace	array	(all)	Filter by workplace: remote, hybrid, on-site. A single value also fills each record's isRemote/workplaceType.
employerSector	array	(all)	Filter by sector: universities-higher-education-institutions, further-education, science-and-research-organisations, public-sector, charity-not-for-profit, commercial-organisations.
employer	string	(none)	Keep only postings whose employer name contains this text (case-insensitive). Applied locally — jobs.ac.uk has no server-side employer-name filter.
maxItems	integer	100	Maximum number of job postings to return across all keyword queries. Each job returned is billed as one result event — see Pricing. Set to 0 for no limit.
pageSize	integer	25	How many results to request per keyword search (portal maximum is 25). Increase if you are running with a large maxItems and few keywords.
postedSince	integer	0	Only keep postings placed within this many days (max 365). Applied locally after fetching — jobs.ac.uk has no server-side date filter. Listings whose date can't be read are always kept. Set 0 to disable.
fetchDescriptions	boolean	false	Also fetch each posting's detail page and return the full advert text in description. One extra page fetch per job; each enriched job bills one additional detail event (see Pricing).
onlyNewSinceLastRun	boolean	false	Delta mode: return only postings not already delivered by a previous run of this Actor (remembered in a named key-value store). A scheduled run then pays only for genuinely-new postings; each returned record carries isNew=true.
cacheTtlSeconds	integer	1800	(Advanced) How long to reuse a previous fetch instead of contacting jobs.ac.uk again, in seconds. Set to 0 to always fetch fresh data.

Discipline slugs. Academic: agriculture-food-and-veterinary, architecture-building-and-planning, biological-sciences, business-and-management-studies, computer-sciences, creative-arts-and-design, economics, education-studies-inc-tefl, engineering-and-technology, health-and-medical, historical-and-philosophical-studies, information-management-and-librarianship, languages-literature-and-culture, law, mathematics-and-statistics, media-and-communications, physical-and-environmental-sciences, politics-and-government, psychology, social-sciences-and-social-care, sport-and-leisure. Professional-services: administrative, estates-and-facilities-management, finance-and-procurement, fundraising-alumni-bids-and-grants, health-wellbeing-and-care, hospitality-retail-conferences-and-events, human-resources, international-activities, it-services, laboratory-clinical-and-technician, legal-compliance-and-policy, library-services-data-and-information-management, pr-marketing-sales-and-communication, project-management-and-consulting, senior-management, sports-and-leisure, student-services, sustainability, web-design-and-development.

Location filtering: jobs.ac.uk's free-text "within N miles" radius search relies on Google geocoding, so this Actor filters by the region/city facet (location) instead — pick a region (scotland, wales, greater-london) or city (manchester, oxford) slug.

Output example

{
  "advertId": "1080834",
  "jobId": "DSC994",
  "id": "DSC994",
  "title": "Admissions & Student Recruitment Coordinator",
  "company": "University of Strathclyde",
  "department": "Student Recruitment & Admissions",
  "location": "Glasgow",
  "isRemote": null,
  "workplaceType": null,
  "salary": "£28,031 to £30,378 per annum",
  "salaryMin": 28031,
  "salaryMax": 30378,
  "salaryCurrency": "GBP",
  "salaryPeriod": "year",
  "postedAt": "2026-07-02",
  "deadline": "2026-07-08",
  "url": "https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSC994/admissions-and-student-recruitment-coordinator-828134"
}

Integrations

Export the dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel from the Console, pull it over the Apify API (including run-sync-get-dataset-items for a single blocking call), wire it into Make/Zapier/n8n, or drive it from an AI agent via the Apify MCP server.

Pricing

Pay per event: $0.005 per Actor start and $0.002 per job returned (less on higher Apify subscription tiers, down to $0.0015), plus $0.002 per full description when fetchDescriptions is on. 100 jobs ≈ $0.21 (≈ $0.41 with full descriptions). No subscription, no rental — you pay only for what you fetch.

Use cases

• Academic job boards and PhD/postdoc alert bots
• University HR benchmarking
• Research-funding and hiring-trend analysis
• Career services for early-career researchers

FAQ

Is it legal to scrape jobs.ac.uk? This Actor reads only publicly available job postings — data any visitor can see without logging in. No personal data behind authentication is touched. Review the target site's terms and your local regulations for your specific use case.

Do I need an account on the target site? No. Postings are fetched from public pages/APIs — no login, cookies or session tokens.

How fresh is the data? Every run fetches live listings. Results are cached for cacheTtlSeconds (default 30 min, set 0 to always hit the source live).

How many jobs can I get? maxItems caps the run (set 0 where supported for no cap). Most sources paginate from newest to oldest.

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