Prospects.ac.uk Scraper: UK Graduate Jobs

Extract graduate schemes, graduate jobs, apprenticeships, internships and placements from Prospects.ac.uk, the UK universities' official careers partner. Every listing includes salary, location, closing date and an apply link. Full mode adds the description, degree requirement and posted date.

What it does

Prospects.ac.uk lists 300 to 2,000 open graduate opportunities from UK employers. This actor reads the site's own search feed, and optionally opens each listing's detail page and each employer's profile page.

• Fast: search feed only. Title, employer, salary, location, employment type, closing date, apply link. No description, no posted date.
• Full (default): adds description (text, HTML, Markdown), degree requirement, posted date, contacts found in the text and the diversity flag.
• includeCompanyDetails: also fetches each unique employer profile once per run (about-us, address, website).

Sample output

{
  "_type": "job",
  "id": "2706650",
  "title": "Engineering - Year in Industry Placement",
  "employer_name": "AWE",
  "company_name": "AWE",
  "location": "Berkshire",
  "salary_min": 24500,
  "salary_max": 24500,
  "salary_currency": "GBP",
  "salary_period": "year",
  "salary_text": "\u00a324,500",
  "employment_type": "work experience",
  "workplace_type": null,
  "degree_required": "any",
  "closing_date": "2026-10-31",
  "posted_at": "2026-09-20",
  "job_url": "https://www.prospects.ac.uk/graduate-jobs/engineering-year-in-industry-placement-2706650",
  "application_url": "https://www.prospects.ac.uk/redirect/job/apply/2706650",
  "diversity_scheme_flag": false,
  "search_query": "engineering",
  "source_platform": "prospects.ac.uk",
  "scraped_at": "2026-09-29T08:00:00Z"
}

Pricing

$0.001 per actor start + $0.003 per row (fast) or $0.005 per row (full) + optional $0.005 per unique employer profile. About $3 to $5 per 1,000 roles.

You only pay for rows that are returned. Rows removed by titleFilter or postedWithinDays are not charged.

Event	Price
Actor start	$0.001
Search row (fast mode)	$0.003
Detail row (full mode)	$0.005
Employer profile (unique employer, includeCompanyDetails=true)	$0.005

New to Apify? Every account gets a $5 free monthly platform credit, enough for around 1,000 full-detail rows.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
searchQueries	array of strings	["graduate scheme"]	Keywords to search. Each runs separately, results are deduplicated across queries.
maxResults	integer	20	Total cap across all queries.
maxResultsPerQuery	integer	20	Cap per keyword. The site returns 20 items per page.
mode	string	full	fast (search feed only) or full (adds detail pages).
postedWithinDays	number	unset	Only jobs posted within this many days (decimals allowed). Needs the detail page, so it switches the run to full mode. Jobs with no posted date are kept.
sortBy	string	newest	newest or relevance. The site has no sort option and always returns newest first, so both give the same order.
titleFilter	string	empty	Comma-separated title terms (OR, case-insensitive). Non-matching rows are dropped before the detail fetch and are not charged.
includeJobDetails	boolean	false	Kept for compatibility. Full mode always fetches detail pages.
includeCompanyDetails	boolean	false	Also fetch employer profiles (implies full mode).
maxConcurrency	integer	5	Concurrent detail page requests (1 to 20).

Example input

{
  "searchQueries": ["graduate scheme", "engineering"],
  "maxResults": 40,
  "maxResultsPerQuery": 20,
  "mode": "full",
  "postedWithinDays": 14
}

Precision title filter

{
  "searchQueries": ["engineer"],
  "titleFilter": "engineer, senior",
  "maxResults": 50
}

What you get

Field	Type	Description
_type	string	Always job.
id	string	Prospects.ac.uk job ID.
title	string	Role title.
employer_name	string	Hiring organisation.
company_name	string	Same as employer_name (fleet-standard alias).
location	string	Locations as listed, comma-joined (city, region or several regions).
salary_min / salary_max	number	Parsed salary bounds. Null for "Competitive" or "Unpaid".
salary_currency	string	GBP when a salary is parsed.
salary_period	string	year, month, week, day or hour.
salary_text	string	Salary exactly as shown on the site.
employment_type	string	Site's own type: graduate-scheme, graduate-job, apprenticeship, work experience (internships, placements, insight days, vacation schemes) or law training contract.
workplace_type	string	remote or hybrid, only when the listing states it (about 3% of listings). Null otherwise.
degree_required	string	any, 2:2, 2:1, 1st, masters or phd. Full mode.
duration_months	integer	Length of fixed-term roles when stated in the description. Full mode, often null.
closing_date	string	Application deadline, YYYY-MM-DD.
description	string	Plain-text description. Full mode.
description_full	string	Plain text with paragraph and list line breaks. Full mode.
description_html	string	Description as HTML. Full mode.
description_md	string	Description as Markdown. Full mode.
job_url	string	Canonical Prospects.ac.uk listing URL.
source_url	string	Same as job_url.
apply_url	string	Canonical apply link. Same as application_url; falls back to job_url.
expires_at	string	Same as closing_date (fleet-canonical name).
application_url	string	Apply link (Prospects redirect to the employer's application page).
diversity_scheme_flag	boolean	True when the listing mentions a diversity programme such as Rare or Bright Network. Full mode.
posted_at / posted_at_datetime	string	Posted date YYYY-MM-DD. Full mode only; the search API has no posted date, so it is null in fast mode.
posted_at_text	string	Raw posted date text. Full mode.
source_platform	string	Always prospects.ac.uk.
search_query	string	The keyword that produced the row.
scraped_at	string	UTC scrape timestamp.
contact_emails / contact_phones / contact_urls	array	Contacts found on the job page: mailto and tel links plus emails and numbers in the description and How to apply text (Prospects' own addresses excluded). Full mode.
contact_email / contact_phone	string	First email and first phone from the arrays above. Full mode.
how_to_apply	string	Text of the How to apply section on the job page. Full mode.
contract_type / working_pattern	string	Contract type (Fixed term, Permanent) and working pattern (Full-time, Part-time) from Additional job details, when stated. Full mode.
additional_details	object	Every label/value pair from the Additional job details section. Full mode.
company_about	string	Employer about-us text. With includeCompanyDetails.
company_website	string	Employer's own website or careers URL from its profile. With includeCompanyDetails.
company_phone / company_email	string	Employer contact details when published (usually null).
company_address_street / _city / _postcode / _country	string	Employer postal address. With includeCompanyDetails.
company_active_jobs_count	integer	Open roles at this employer. With includeCompanyDetails.
company_active_jobs	array	Other open roles at the same employer (title, job_url, location, salary_text), taken from the job page. With includeCompanyDetails.

Deprecation notes

• employer_name is deprecated (introduced 2026-09-29, removal not before 2027-09-29). Use company_name, which carries the same value. Both are emitted.
• application_url is an alias of apply_url. Both are emitted.

Use with AI Agents (MCP)

Connect this actor to any MCP-compatible AI client: Claude Desktop, Claude.ai, Cursor, VS Code, LangChain, LlamaIndex, or custom agents.

{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=santamaria-automations/prospects-uk-scraper",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

For per-tool schemas and copy-paste snippets for MCP clients, see the MCP tab.

Example prompt once connected:

"Use prospects-uk-scraper to find graduate software developer roles in the UK closing in the next 30 days. Return a table with employer, salary and closing date."

Support

• Questions or issues? Email contact@nanoscrape.com, we typically reply within 6 hours. You can also open a ticket in the Issues tab on the actor page.
• Feature request for this actor? Open a ticket in the Issues tab or email contact@nanoscrape.com with the platform field you need and (if possible) a URL that shows the data live.
• Need a scraper for a job board we don't cover yet? Email contact@nanoscrape.com with the target site and your rough usage volume. We ship one-off boards regularly.

Why this scraper

• Source of truth for UK graduate hiring. Prospects.ac.uk is Jisc's official careers portal, linked from nearly every UK university careers service.
• Clean, structured rows. Parsed salary, deadline, degree requirement and posted date.
• No login and no browser. Small runs cost cents.
• Fast. Fast mode returns 45 rows in a few seconds; full mode about 40 rows per minute.

Common use cases

• Graduate recruitment agencies: track competitor grad schemes and salary benchmarks.
• University careers services: feed a live list of relevant roles to your careers portal.
• AI job-search agents: give agents structured access to UK graduate roles.
• Diversity and inclusion research: track which schemes mention diversity partnerships.

Notes and limits

• The site does not publish a sector, verified badge, start-date type, scheme size or visa flag in its listings, so this actor does not output them.
• The site's search feed has no posted date. posted_at is only filled in full mode (from the detail page).
• Some listings do not disclose salary ("Competitive", "Unpaid") or degree class. Those fields are null.
• workplace_type is only set when the listing states a workplace, which is rare.
• duration_months is extracted from description text when present and is often null.
• Prospects rarely publishes employer phone or email. Address, about-us text and website fill at high rates with includeCompanyDetails.

Related Actors

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• CWJobs UK Scraper: UK IT and tech specialist board.
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• Indeed Scraper: job listings from Indeed.

Enrich the employer websites this actor returns in company_website:

• Website Email Scraper: pull hiring-team emails from employer sites.
• Website Contact Extractor: phone numbers, emails and social links from employer sites.