Reed.co.uk Jobs Scraper: UK job listings with salary, contract type and remote filter

Scrape UK job listings from Reed.co.uk, the UK's biggest job board, by keyword and location (or paste any Reed search URL). Every job comes back as clean data: job title, employer, salary range with a yearly estimate, permanent/contract/temporary, full-time/part-time, remote/hybrid, posting date and the full job description. Export to CSV, JSON or Excel, or call it from the API.

Use it for UK job market research, salary benchmarking, recruitment lead lists and a daily new-jobs feed. Set "only jobs posted in the last N days" and "only jobs not seen before", schedule it, and you get only the new vacancies each day. Works with AI agents through the Apify MCP server.

Why this one

• Filters Reed itself applies: salary range, permanent / contract / temporary, full or part time, remote / hybrid, direct employers only, graduate, Easy Apply, distance. You only pay for matching jobs.
• "Posted in the last N days" is exact. Reed narrows to its own date bucket, then every job's own posting date is checked against your cut-off.
• Salary you can compare. Hourly, daily, weekly and monthly pay also come as a per-year estimate (est.: 40 h x 50 weeks, 250 days).
• Only-new mode for scheduled daily runs: jobs you already received are skipped and not charged.
• No silent empty runs. If Reed blocks the run before any data arrives, the run FAILS with the reason and charges nothing. If your search simply matches nothing, the status message says so.
• Hard spending cap: maxItems is exact. Deep result pages work (page 400 answered in our test).

Input (main fields)

Field	Meaning
Job keywords + Places	One search per keyword/place pair (python developer in London)
Reed search URLs	Alternative: paste any reed.co.uk/jobs search
Only jobs posted in the last N days	Exact date check
Min / Max salary, Only jobs that show a salary	Applied by Reed
Permanent, Contract, Temporary, Full/Part time, Working pattern, Distance, Direct employers, Graduate, Easy Apply	Applied by Reed
Fetch each job's detail page	Adds full description, sector, employer type, skills, reference
Only jobs not seen before	Remembers IDs between runs
Max jobs	Hard stop (default 50)

Output (one row per job)

id, url, title, company, companyUrl, location, county, salaryFrom, salaryTo, salaryPeriod, salaryFromPerYearEst, salaryToPerYearEst, currency, contractType, fullTime, partTime, workingOption, snippet, postedAt, updatedAt, expiresAt, category, easyApply, externalApplyUrl, isPromoted, searchUrl, scrapedAt and, with details on: description, descriptionHtml, sector, parentSector, region, country, postcode, isRemote, salaryDisplay, salaryNegotiable, employerType, skills, reference.

See sample-output.json for real rows.

Output example

Three real rows from a run of this Actor (columns trimmed; each row has many more fields, see Output above):

Title	Company	Location	Salary from	Salary to	Period	Contract	Working	Posted
Python Developers	INTEC SELECT LIMITED	London	650	750	per day	Contract	hybrid	2026-10-02T16:58:06.81
Python Developer	Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited	London	550	617.55	per day	Contract	remote	2026-09-22T08:38:10.017
Python Developer	Addition	Watford	70000	70000	per annum	Permanent	onSite	2026-09-16T08:48:35.357

Pricing

Pay per event: $0.001 per job, plus $0.002 per detail page if enabled. 1,000 jobs = $1.00; with full descriptions = $3.00. See PRICING.md.

Notes and limits

• Salary filters match jobs whose salary range overlaps yours (a 40-50k job can appear for a 50k minimum), because that is how Reed filters.
• Only publicly visible job-ad data is collected; no logins, no applying. Recruiter contact details are not collected. Use the data in line with Reed's terms and UK/EU data-protection law.
• Reed shows some jobs in several result pages; duplicates inside a run are dropped.
• Posting times are Reed's UK local time; the age check can be off by up to an hour in summer.
• Run it on a schedule with "only jobs not seen before" to build a new-jobs feed.

FAQ

How much does it cost? Pay per event: $0.001 per job, plus $0.002 per job detail page if you switch details on, plus a $0.00005 start event per run (per GB of memory). 1,000 jobs = $1.00 before details. You are not charged for items skipped by filters or only-new mode, duplicates, or anything past your max-items limit. Prices are on the Pricing tab and in PRICING.md.

Is there a limit on results? maxItems is a hard cap you set per run (default 50). Runs also stop at the paging limit in the input (maxPagesPerSearch). The source site may cap how deep its own search goes; see Notes and limits.

Is it legal? The Actor collects only publicly visible data from Reed.co.uk, with no logins. You remain responsible for using the data in line with the site's terms and data-protection law (GDPR/UK GDPR), especially for personal data.

Do I need proxies? Not for normal runs: the default input works without one (no proxy is used). For very large runs you can add an Apify proxy or your own proxy URL in the Proxy configuration field; that cost is then yours.

Can I schedule it? Yes: use Apify Schedules or the API; a daily schedule with "Only jobs not seen before" and "posted in the last N days" gives a new-jobs feed.

Which export formats are available? Download the dataset as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, HTML or RSS from the Console or API, or pull it with the Apify API/clients (Python, JavaScript) and integrations such as Make, Zapier, n8n, Google Sheets.

Something broke or a field is missing? Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab with the run link.

Use with AI agents / MCP

Agents can call this Actor through the Apify MCP server (https://mcp.apify.com). Add the Actor to the server, or let the agent find it with the search-actors tool, then call it by name:

• Actor: santis_hermes/reed-jobs-scraper-uk
• Example prompt: "Find 3 Python developer jobs in London on Reed and show salary and contract type."
• Minimal input:

{
  "keywords": [
    "python developer"
  ],
  "locations": [
    "London"
  ],
  "maxItems": 3
}

Results come back as dataset items (structured JSON), so an agent can read them directly. Keep maxItems small for agent calls to control cost. Docs: https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/mcp