Reed.co.uk Jobs Scraper

Pull live UK job listings from Reed.co.uk at scale — titles, hiring company, salary parsed into min/max/currency/period, location, employment-type flags, posted date, full HTML descriptions, recruiter profile, sector, and direct apply URLs. Built for UK recruiters, salary-benchmark analysts, and HR-tech sales teams who need a clean Reed feed without writing scrapers.

Why This Scraper?

• Every Reed-native filter wired through — 5 employment-type toggles (permanent, contract, temp, full-time, part-time), agency vs. direct-employer source filter, 7 distance bands (exact location to 40 miles), 5 date-posted windows (today / last 3 days / last week / last 2 weeks / any), and GBP min/max salary range — none of which the multi-board aggregators expose.
• Salary parsed into structured fields — every row carries salaryMin, salaryMax, salaryCurrency (always GBP), and salaryPeriod (annual / hourly / daily / weekly / monthly) alongside the original Reed text. No custom regex on your end to filter "£40-60k" candidates.
• Up to 5,000 jobs per run — pagination handled automatically; works equally well at 50 rows for a quick lead pull or 5,000 rows for a region-wide salary survey.
• Free-form keyword + UK location — no preset role lists, no fixed locations. Type "data engineer" + "se1" (postcode) or "warehouse operative" + "manchester" and Reed's own geocoder handles the rest.
• Detail-page enrichment with rich-HTML descriptions — the full posting body, sector category, and recruiter Reed profile URL are pulled from each job's detail page; toggle off for cheaper, snippet-only scans.
• Accepts pasted Reed URLs — drop in a search-results URL straight from the Reed website (sector picker, graduate, easy-apply, and visa-sponsorship flags all carry through) or an individual job-detail URL — both work side-by-side with free-text queries in the same run.
• Per-row search echo — every row records the searchKeywords and searchLocation that produced it, so multi-query batch runs stay filterable downstream in CSV / Excel / Postgres.
• No login. No API key. No setup. Enter a keyword and a UK city and you have a clean dataset in minutes.

Use Cases

Recruitment Lead Generation

• Build target lists of recruitment agencies actively advertising in your sector
• Identify direct employers hiring for the same role you place candidates into
• Track which agencies dominate a given UK region or job category

Salary Benchmarking

• Live UK pay data by role, region, and seniority, refreshed on demand
• Compare permanent vs. contract day-rates for the same job title
• Surface salary-band shifts week-on-week for compensation reviews

Job-Aggregator & White-Label Boards

• Backfill a niche or regional jobs board with curated Reed listings
• Power a Slack/email alerting product for new roles in a specific stack
• Build a sector-specific newsletter (FinTech London, NHS healthcare, etc.)

Workforce & Skills Market Research

• Track demand for skills like "Python", "AWS", "Salesforce" by region over time
• Map remote vs. hybrid vs. on-site mix in your industry
• Quantify graduate, contract, and permanent supply per UK city

Competitive Intelligence for HR-Tech Sales

• Identify recruitment agencies as warm leads for ATS, CRM, or sourcing tools
• Track which competitors of your target customer are hiring (and for what)
• Monitor hiring spikes to time outbound campaigns

Getting Started

Basic Search

A single keyword + city — fastest path to a useful dataset:

{
    "keywords": "python developer",
    "location": "london"
}

Filtered Search

Narrow to fixed-term contract data engineers in Manchester within 20 miles, paying £60k+:

{
    "keywords": "data engineer",
    "location": "manchester",
    "distance": "20",
    "permanent": false,
    "contract": true,
    "temp": false,
    "minSalary": 60000,
    "maxResults": 200
}

URL List with Detail Enrichment

Mix two pre-filtered Reed search URLs and pull full descriptions for both:

{
    "urls": [
        "https://www.reed.co.uk/jobs/python-jobs-in-bristol",
        "https://www.reed.co.uk/jobs/devops-jobs-in-edinburgh"
    ],
    "fetchDescription": true,
    "maxResults": 500
}

Input Reference

Search

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
keywords	string	"python developer"	Job title or skill to search, such as "python developer" or "marketing manager". Leave empty to scrape Reed's general listing.
location	string	"london"	UK city, region, or postcode (e.g., "london", "manchester", "se1", "remote"). Reed accepts full or partial postcodes and town names.
distance	select	10 miles	Search radius from the location: Exact location only, 5 miles, 10 miles, 15 miles, 20 miles, 30 miles, 40 miles. Ignored when location is empty.
urls	string[]	[]	Optional. Paste Reed.co.uk search URLs or individual job URLs. Filters baked into pasted URLs are honored as-is.

Job Type

A single posting can carry multiple flags (e.g., a role can be both contract AND full-time). Each toggle includes any role tagged with that flag.

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
permanent	boolean	true	Include permanent contract roles.
contract	boolean	true	Include fixed-term contract roles.
temp	boolean	true	Include temporary roles.
fullTime	boolean	true	Include full-time roles.
partTime	boolean	false	Include part-time roles.

Salary

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
minSalary	integer	null	Minimum annual salary in GBP. Many Reed listings are tagged "Competitive" and may be excluded by Reed's server-side filter when set.
maxSalary	integer	null	Maximum annual salary in GBP.

Filters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
postedBy	select	Any (agency or direct employer)	Filter by who listed the role: Any (agency or direct employer), Recruitment agency only, or Direct employer only.
datePosted	select	Any time	Only show roles posted within this window: Any time, Today, Last 3 days, Last week, Last 2 weeks.

Advanced

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
fetchDescription	boolean	true	Fetch each role's full description from its detail page. Leave on for the most complete data. Turn off for faster, cheaper scans — only the short snippet, salary, and headline fields will be populated.
maxResults	integer	100	Cap on total job rows across all keywords and URLs. Hard upper bound is 5,000 — set to 0 to use that cap directly. The actor stops requesting new pages once this number is reached but keeps the full final page even if it slightly overshoots (up to ~100 results per page).

Output

Every row is a flat job posting. Here is a representative result:

{
    "jobId": "56626200",
    "title": "Python Developer - Insurance Analytics",
    "company": "Lane Clark and Peacock LLP",
    "location": "London",
    "salary": "£40,000 - £60,000 per annum",
    "salaryMin": 40000,
    "salaryMax": 60000,
    "salaryCurrency": "GBP",
    "salaryPeriod": "annual",
    "employmentType": ["Permanent", "Full-time"],
    "postedBy": "directEmployer",
    "postedDate": "2026-04-28T10:27:23",
    "expiryDate": "2026-06-09T23:55:00",
    "applyUrl": "https://careers.lcp.com/job/python-developer/...",
    "jobUrl": "https://www.reed.co.uk/jobs/python-developer-insurance-analytics/56626200",
    "snippet": "We are looking for a Python developer to join our insurance analytics team...",
    "description": "We are looking for a Python developer to join our insurance analytics team. You will be working on...",
    "descriptionHtml": "<p>We are looking for a <strong>Python</strong> developer...</p><ul><li>5+ years experience</li></ul>",
    "sector": "IT & Telecoms",
    "recruiterName": "Lane Clark and Peacock LLP",
    "recruiterReedProfileUrl": "https://www.reed.co.uk/Profile/Lane-Clark-and-Peacock-LLP-100888",
    "searchKeywords": "python developer",
    "searchLocation": "london",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-05-09T14:30:00Z"
}

Core Fields

Field	Type	Description
jobId	string	Reed's numeric job identifier.
title	string	Job title as posted.
company	string | null	Hiring company name. May be null when posted by an agency anonymously.
location	string	Location as Reed displays it (e.g., "London", "Manchester · Remote").
snippet	string	Short preview always present from the search results card.
postedDate	string	When the role was posted (ISO 8601).
expiryDate	string | null	When the listing closes (ISO 8601).

Salary

Field	Type	Description
salary	string | null	Salary text as posted (e.g., "£45,000 - £55,000 per annum", "£18 per hour", "Competitive").
salaryMin	number | null	Parsed minimum salary. Null when not parseable.
salaryMax	number | null	Parsed maximum salary. Null when not parseable.
salaryCurrency	string	Always "GBP" for Reed (UK-only board).
salaryPeriod	string | null	"annual", "monthly", "weekly", "daily", "hourly", or null.

Employment & Source

Field	Type	Description
employmentType	string[]	Subset of ["Permanent", "Contract", "Temporary", "Full-time", "Part-time"].
postedBy	string | null	"agency" or "directEmployer".
sector	string | null	Reed's sector category (e.g., "IT & Telecoms", "Healthcare").
recruiterName	string | null	Recruiter or company name on the listing page.
recruiterReedProfileUrl	string | null	Reed recruiter profile URL when present.

Description & Links

Field	Type	Description
description	string | null	Full job description (plain text). Populated when fetchDescription is on.
descriptionHtml	string | null	Full description with HTML markup preserved (<p>, <ul>, <strong>).
applyUrl	string	Direct apply URL — external ATS link when the role redirects, otherwise the Reed apply page.
jobUrl	string	Reed.co.uk URL for the job detail page.

Search Context

Field	Type	Description
searchKeywords	string | null	The keywords input that produced this row (echoed for batch runs).
searchLocation	string | null	The location input that produced this row.
scrapedAt	string	ISO 8601 timestamp of the scrape.

Tips for Best Results

• Use distance to control noise. Exact location only returns just the postings tagged with that town or postcode; bumping to 40 miles widens the catchment for commuter-belt or remote-friendly roles. Ignored when location is empty.
• Reed's salary filter overlaps with stated bands. A posting at £50,000-£80,000 will appear in a minSalary: 70000 search because the band crosses your floor — useful for surfacing roles where you're at the top of the range, but expect overlap rather than strict cutoffs.
• Set maxResults: 0 to fetch every available row (capped at the internal 5,000 ceiling). Best paired with a tight keyword + location for a clean salary survey.
• Paste Reed search URLs to bring filters Reed exposes that this actor doesn't surface as top-level inputs. Sector picker (multipleParentSectorIds), graduate-only, easy-apply, and visa-sponsorship flags are honored when present in the URL — dial in the search on the Reed website, then paste the full URL into the urls field.
• Combine keywords + urls in one run. A free-text search and a list of pre-filtered Reed URLs run side-by-side; deduplication by job ID is automatic, so the same posting found twice only counts once.
• Turn off fetchDescription for fast lead-list scans. When you only need title, company, salary, and apply URL (e.g., counting agency activity in a sector), skipping the per-job detail fetch is significantly faster and cheaper.
• Use postedBy: "Recruitment agency only" for agency lead lists. Pair it with a sector-filtered URL to surface every agency actively placing into your vertical — name, recruiter Reed profile, and contact route in one pull.

Pricing

$0.95 per 1,000 results. No compute charges — you only pay per result returned.

Results	Total cost
100	$0.10
1,000	$0.95
10,000	$9.50
100,000	$95.00

A "result" is any job row in the output dataset. Roughly 4× cheaper than the closest comparable multi-board scraper on the Apify store.

Integrations

Export data in JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, or RSS. Connect to 1,500+ apps via:

• Zapier / Make / n8n — Workflow automation
• Google Sheets — Direct spreadsheet export
• Slack / Email — Notifications on new results
• Webhooks — Trigger custom APIs on run completion
• Apify API — Full programmatic access

Legal & Ethical Use

This actor is designed for legitimate recruitment, salary-benchmarking, market research, and lead-generation work. Users are responsible for complying with applicable laws and Reed.co.uk's terms of service. Do not use extracted data for spam, harassment, or any illegal purpose. Be mindful of UK GDPR when storing or processing personal data appearing in job posts.