jobs.ac.uk Scraper – academic and research job listings export

Type in a few keywords, the same ones you would put into the jobs.ac.uk search box, and you get back one row per job listing. Each row has the title, employer, department, location, salary, datePlaced and closingDate, plus a stable id and the canonical url of the advert.

jobs.ac.uk is the main job board for UK universities and research institutes. If you track lectureships, postdocs or professional services roles, you get a clean table instead of copying adverts by hand.

You can schedule it to run daily or weekly with the same keywords and compare runs by id to spot new listings.

Why this one

• Clean, consistent fields. Every row uses the same field names, so filters and spreadsheets keep working between runs.
• Dates you can sort. Placed and closing dates come back as ISO dates (2001-10-30) alongside the text shown on the site (30 Oct).
• Stable IDs. The id is the jobs.ac.uk advert code (for example DTM067), so you can de-duplicate across runs.
• Bounded runs. You set Max results and Max pages, so a run never runs away from you.
• Public pages only. It reads the public search pages, with no login and no account needed.
• Cheap. $1.50 per 1,000 results, and runs with no results cost nothing.

Quick start

{
  "keywords": "physics",
  "maxItems": 5,
  "maxPages": 1
}

This returns up to 5 jobs.ac.uk listings matching "physics", one row per advert. In a test run on 6 Nov 2026 it returned 5 rows.

What you can use it for

Who	What for
Academic recruiters	Track which universities are hiring in a discipline each week
Researchers and postdocs	Get a sortable list of roles with closing dates so you don't miss a deadline
HR and workforce analysts	Compare salary bands across institutions for similar roles
Careers services	Send students a weekly digest of new research roles in their field

How to use it

1. Click Try for free.
2. In Keywords, type what you are looking for, for example physics or lecturer history.
3. Set Max results (1 to 1000), for example 100, to cap how many listings you save.
4. Set Max pages (1 to 40), for example 4. Each page holds up to 25 listings.
5. Click Start.

Tip: save the input as a task and add it to Schedules to get a fresh list every morning.

What data you get

Each dataset row is one job advert with these fields.

Field	What it is	Example
id	jobs.ac.uk advert code	DTM067
url	Canonical link to the advert	https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DTM067/lecturer-physics
title	Job title	Lecturer - Physics
employer	Hiring institution	HRUC
department	Department, when shown	Leeds International Study Centre
location	Where the job is based	Twickenham
salary	Salary text as published	£33,429 to £46,618
datePlaced	Date the advert went up (ISO)	2001-10-30
datePlacedText	Date placed as shown on the site	30 Oct
closingDate	Closing date (ISO)	2001-11-15
closingDateText	Closing date as shown on the site	15 Nov
searchKeywords	The keywords that found this row	physics
scrapedAt	When the row was collected (ISO timestamp)	2026-11-06T02:55:36.050Z

Fields the advert doesn't show are left as null.

Pricing

Event	Price
Result (one job listing saved to the dataset)	$0.0015

There is no start fee, and runs with no results cost nothing.

Run	Cost
100 results	$0.15
1,000 results	$1.50
10,000 results	$15.00

Good to know

• Limits. Up to 1,000 results and 40 pages per run, with up to 25 listings per page.
• Where the data comes from. The public search result pages on jobs.ac.uk. Nothing behind a login is touched.
• What is not included. Full advert descriptions, attached documents and contact details. Open the url for the full advert.
• Freshness. You get what the site shows at the moment of the run. Listings disappear once they close.
• Empty fields. department, closingDate and closingDateText are null when an advert doesn't show them.
• Not affiliated. This tool isn't affiliated with or endorsed by jobs.ac.uk or its owners.

FAQ

Can I get only new jobs? Schedule the same input and compare the id field against your previous run.

Why is salary sometimes text like "Up to £39,605.58"? Salary is copied as the employer published it, so the format varies.

Do I need an account or API key? No. It only reads public pages.

Getting the data out

Download results as Excel, CSV or JSON from the Output tab. Send them to Google Sheets, Slack, Zapier, Make or webhooks from the Integrations tab. Every run is also available through the Apify API, and you can run it on a timetable from Schedules.

Questions or problems

Open an issue on the Issues tab and include the run link. I reply within one business day.

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