Caterer Scraper - UK Hospitality Jobs & Companies

What does Caterer Scraper do?

Caterer Scraper extracts job listings from Caterer.com, the UK's leading hospitality job board with thousands of live vacancies in kitchens, hotels, restaurants, bars, and catering companies. Give it a keyword and (optionally) a location, and it returns structured data for every matching job: title, company, salary (when disclosed), location, postcode, description snippet, posting date, expiry date, and a direct link to the advert. It reads the site's own server-rendered search data, so there is no login, no cookies, and no browser automation required.

Run it on the Apify platform to get UK hospitality job market data via API, schedule recurring scrapes, and pipe results into tools like Zapier, Make, Google Sheets, Airtable, and Slack.

How to scrape Caterer data

1. Go to the Caterer Scraper on the Apify Store.
2. Click Try for free to open the actor in the Apify Console.
3. Enter a search query (e.g. "chef", "sous chef", "kitchen porter", "hotel manager", "barista").
4. Optionally enter a UK location (e.g. "london", "manchester", "birmingham", "edinburgh"). Leave it empty to search the whole UK.
5. Set the maximum number of results you want (default: 50).
6. Leave the proxy configuration on GB (the default) for the most reliable results.
7. Click Start and wait for the run to finish.
8. Download your data as JSON, CSV, Excel, or HTML from the Output tab, or pull it via the Apify API.

Why use Caterer Scraper?

• Hospitality salary benchmarking — where employers disclose pay, compare rates across roles, cities, and venue types, and track how kitchen and front-of-house wages shift over time.
• Recruitment intelligence — see which hotel groups, restaurant chains, and catering agencies are hiring, for what roles, and where. Spot hiring trends before your competitors do.
• Labour market analysis — understand demand across the UK hospitality sector. Which cities have the most chef vacancies? Which roles are hardest to fill?
• Lead generation — find hospitality employers and recruitment agencies actively hiring to target with B2B services, suppliers, tools, or staffing solutions.
• Job aggregation — feed structured UK hospitality listings into your own job board, career site, or candidate-alert system.
• Academic and policy research — clean, structured data for labour economics, wage studies, and workforce reports on the hospitality sector.

About Caterer.com

Caterer.com is the UK's best-known hospitality recruitment platform, part of the StepStone group (the same network as Totaljobs and IrishJobs.ie). It focuses exclusively on hospitality and catering roles across thousands of employers. Key characteristics:

• Coverage: Nationwide UK, from London to regional towns, plus some remote and live-in roles.
• Roles: Chefs at every level (head, sous, pastry, commis), kitchen staff, waiting and bar staff, hotel management, housekeeping, catering operations, and more.
• Salary data: Many adverts show a concrete figure or range with a pay period (e.g. "£17 per hour", "£30,000 - £35,000 per annum"); some show "Competitive" or nothing.
• Work patterns: Full-time, part-time, contract, temporary, seasonal, and permanent roles.

Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
searchQuery	string	No	Job keyword to search for. Defaults to chef if empty.
location	string	No	UK location to filter by (e.g. london). Leave empty to search the whole UK.
maxResults	integer	No	Maximum number of listings to scrape. Default 50.
proxyConfiguration	object	No	Apify proxy settings. Defaults to GB proxies.

Example input

{
  "searchQuery": "sous chef",
  "location": "london",
  "maxResults": 100,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
    "apifyProxyCountry": "GB"
  }
}

Output

Each job listing is a flat JSON object with the following fields:

Field	Type	Example
jobId	number	107604788
jobTitle	string	Chef
company	string	Abbeywood Estate
companyUrl	string	https://www.caterer.com/jobs/abbeywood-estate?cmpId=1460325&cmp=1
companyLogo	string	https://www.caterer.com/CompanyLogos/8e3dda14-...png
location	string	Ruloe, Northwich (CW8), CW8 2HW
postCode	string	CW8 2HW
salary	string	£17 per hour
remoteOption	string	null
skills	array	null
descriptionSnippet	string	Hours circa 7:30am - 3:30pm Sunday to Thursday Inclusive Rate of Pay £17.00ph
sponsored	boolean	false
postedDate	string	2026-06-29T12:09:46.8Z
expiryDate	string	2026-07-27T13:28:26.943Z
url	string	https://www.caterer.com/job/chef/abbeywood-estate-job107604788
scrapedAt	string	2026-07-10T09:32:54.779Z

Example output

{
  "jobId": 107604788,
  "jobTitle": "Chef",
  "company": "Abbeywood Estate",
  "companyUrl": "https://www.caterer.com/jobs/abbeywood-estate?cmpId=1460325&cmp=1",
  "companyLogo": null,
  "location": "Ruloe, Northwich (CW8), CW8 2HW",
  "postCode": "CW8 2HW",
  "salary": "£17 per hour",
  "remoteOption": null,
  "skills": null,
  "descriptionSnippet": "Hours circa 7:30am - 3:30pm Sunday to Thursday Inclusive Rate of Pay £17.00ph",
  "sponsored": false,
  "postedDate": "2026-06-29T12:09:46.8Z",
  "expiryDate": "2026-07-27T13:28:26.943Z",
  "url": "https://www.caterer.com/job/chef/abbeywood-estate-job107604788",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-07-10T09:32:54.779Z"
}

Cost estimate

This actor is billed on Apify's Pay Per Result model. The site's search returns 25 jobs per page, so scraping is fast and lightweight — a typical run of a few hundred listings finishes in well under a minute of compute. You pay per job returned plus a small per-run start fee, so a run that returns 500 jobs costs roughly the price of 500 results. Check the actor's pricing tab for the exact current rate.

Limitations and known issues

• Search results only — the actor reads the listing data embedded in the search pages (title, company, salary, location, snippet, dates, links). It does not open each advert to pull the full job description body. The descriptionSnippet field gives you the summary shown on the results page.
• Salary as advertised — some UK listings show "Competitive" or no figure, in which case the salary field carries the advertised text or is null. Where a figure is given, it is exactly what the employer entered (an amount or range with a pay period).
• Sponsored jobs — a small number of sponsored listings repeat across pages. The actor deduplicates by jobId, so you never get the same job twice.
• UK focus — Caterer.com is a UK job board. Use GB proxies (the default) for the most reliable results.
• Result ceiling — deep result sets are paginated; very large maxResults values will walk many pages. Keep maxResults reasonable for the query you actually need.

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• IrishJobs Scraper — Ireland's leading job board, same structured output.
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• Browse the Studio AMBA profile on the Apify Store for more European job and marketplace scrapers.

FAQ

Do I need a Caterer.com account or API key? No. This actor reads the public search results. There is no login, no cookies, and no API key required.

Can I filter by salary, contract type, or region? The current version filters by keyword and location. Salary, location, postcode, and posting date are returned on every result so you can filter them yourself after scraping.

Is scraping Caterer.com legal? This actor collects publicly available job listing data. You are responsible for using the data in line with the site's terms and applicable law. Do not use it to send unsolicited communications in breach of regulations.