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jobs.ac.uk Academic & Research Job Scraper

Get live academic and research job postings from jobs.ac.uk as clean structured data. Covers postdocs, lectureships, research fellowships, PhD studentships and professional roles across UK and European universities. Filter by keyword. No login required.

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Get live academic and research job postings from jobs.ac.uk — the UK's primary portal for university and research roles — as clean, structured data. No login, no account, no setup required.

Monitor postdocs, lectureships, research fellowships, PhD studentships, teaching roles and professional services positions across UK and European universities.

Why use it

  • Always current — reflects live postings, refreshed on every run.
  • UK & EU academic coverage — postdocs, lectureships, research fellows, studentships, professional services and more.
  • Keyword fan-in — search multiple disciplines in a single run; results are merged and deduped automatically.
  • Clean structured output — ready for spreadsheets, databases, dashboards or job-matching pipelines.

What you get

One dataset item per posting:

FieldDescription
jobIdStable jobs.ac.uk job identifier (e.g. DRJ953)
titleJob title
companyHiring institution / employer
locationLocation as listed (defaults to United Kingdom when absent)
salarySalary band or range (where displayed)
postedAtDate the posting was placed (ISO YYYY-MM-DD)
urlDirect link to the full job posting

Input

FieldTypeDefaultNotes
keywordsarray of stringsresearch defaultsKeyword queries to search. Each is searched separately; results are merged and deduped. Leave empty to use built-in research-oriented defaults.
maxItemsinteger25Maximum total postings to return across all keywords. 0 = no limit.
pageSizeinteger25Results requested per keyword query (portal max: 25).

Default keywords

When keywords is left empty the scraper fans across these research-oriented terms:

  • social science
  • politics
  • psychology
  • humanities
  • international development
  • research

Example input

{
"keywords": ["machine learning", "bioinformatics", "epidemiology"],
"maxItems": 50,
"pageSize": 25
}

Returns up to 50 postings matching any of the three disciplines, newest first.

Use cases

  • Academics and researchers tracking new positions before closing dates.
  • University HR and recruitment teams monitoring competitor postings.
  • Academic career coaches and career services offices.
  • Labor-market researchers studying higher-education hiring trends.
  • Job aggregators and newsletters covering the research and university sector.