CWJobs Scraper

CWJobs Scraper extracts IT and tech job adverts from CWJobs.co.uk, the UK IT job board of the Totaljobs Group. Every job comes with CWJobs' own label for the advertiser (direct employer or recruitment agency), the contract type (permanent or contract), salary, location, skills, posting date and a link to the advert.

You can search by keyword and location, or leave both empty and get every IT job on the board for the last day, three days, week or two weeks.

How to scrape CWJobs data

1. Open CWJobs Scraper in the Apify Console.
2. Enter a keyword such as developer, data engineer or cyber security, or leave it empty for the whole board.
3. Optionally enter a UK location such as london or manchester.
4. Pick how recent the jobs should be under Posted within (default: last 7 days).
5. Optionally keep only direct employers or only agencies, and only permanent or only contract jobs.
6. Set Max results and click Start.
7. Download the results as JSON, CSV or Excel from the Output tab, or read them through the Apify API.

What you can use it for

• Hiring signals for recruiters. A weekly list of UK companies that advertise IT roles themselves, with the stack they hire for.
• Agency market mapping. Which recruitment agencies post which IT roles, in which regions, and how many.
• Salary and rate benchmarking for permanent and contract IT roles across the UK.
• Labour market research on demand for skills such as Python, AWS, Azure or Kubernetes.
• Job aggregation for niche IT job sites and alerts.

Input

Field	Type	Description
searchQuery	string	Job keyword. Empty = every job on CWJobs.
location	string	UK town, city or region. Empty = whole UK.
postedWithin	string	1, 3, 7 or 14 days, or empty for any time. Default 7.
companyType	string	all (default), direct or agency. Uses CWJobs' "Type of Company" filter.
contractType	string	all (default), permanent or contract.
tagAdvertiserAndContractType	boolean	Default true. Fills advertiserType and contractType (see below).
maxResults	integer	Maximum jobs to return. Default 100, hard cap 50,000.
proxyConfiguration	object	Default: Apify automatic proxy. No residential proxy needed.

Example input

{
    "searchQuery": "",
    "postedWithin": "7",
    "companyType": "all",
    "maxResults": 5000
}

About the advertiser and contract labels

CWJobs does not put "Direct Employer" or "Agency" on the job itself. It only exposes them through its search filters. With tagAdvertiserAndContractType switched on (the default), the actor runs the same search again with each filter and labels the jobs it finds. This costs a few extra requests per run. Switch it off for a faster run where advertiserType and contractType are empty.

CWJobs only labels part of its adverts. In October 2026 about half of the adverts of a week carried a "Direct Employer" or "Agency" label. Adverts that arrive through employers' own applicant tracking systems (large tech companies, universities, public bodies) usually have no label. Those jobs come back with advertiserType: null, never with a guessed value.

Output

Each item is one job advert.

Field	Description
jobId	CWJobs / Totaljobs job id
jobTitle	Job title
company	Advertiser name (employer or agency)
companyId	CWJobs company id
companyProfileUrl	The advertiser's job list on CWJobs
companyLogo	Logo URL
advertiserType	direct_employer, agency or null
advertiserTypeSource	job (CWJobs labels this advert) or company (label taken from the same company's other adverts)
contractType	permanent, contract or null
location, postCode	Location as advertised
locationPrecision	region when the advert only names a region (South East, Yorkshire, UK), place otherwise
locationFromAdvert, locationFromAdvertSource	With resolveRegionOnlyLocations on: the town read from the advert text of a region-only advert, null when the advert does not say
salary, currency	Salary text as advertised, GBP when given
remoteOption	Work from home label
skills	Skills tagged by CWJobs
descriptionSnippet	Start of the description
sourceSite	Group site the advert was posted on. CWJobs shows Totaljobs IT adverts too
anonymousAdvertiser	true when the advertiser hides its name
sponsored	Paid placement
postedDate, expiryDate	ISO dates
url	Link to the advert
scrapedAt	Run timestamp

Example output

{
    "jobId": 108178124,
    "jobTitle": "Full Stack Engineer",
    "company": "Leeds Building Society",
    "companyId": 334816,
    "companyProfileUrl": "https://www.cwjobs.co.uk/jobs/leeds-building-society?cmpId=334816",
    "advertiserType": "direct_employer",
    "advertiserTypeSource": "job",
    "contractType": "permanent",
    "location": "Leeds",
    "salary": "Competitive",
    "currency": "GBP",
    "sourceSite": "Totaljobs.com",
    "postedDate": "2026-10-15T08:15:46.537Z",
    "expiryDate": "2026-11-25T09:15:46.537Z",
    "url": "https://www.totaljobs.com/job/full-stack-engineer/leeds-building-society-job108178124",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-15T09:00:00.000Z"
}

Cost estimate

The actor reads CWJobs' result list as JSON, 25 jobs per request, on Apify's automatic proxy. A 20-job test run used about $0.0005 of platform usage. A full week of the whole board (about 9,000 jobs) is roughly 800 requests including the labelling passes. Usage for a run only settles after the run has finished with SUCCEEDED, so a dataset read during a run shows a cost that is far too low.

Limitations

• CWJobs labels only part of its adverts as "Direct Employer" or "Agency". Unlabelled adverts have advertiserType: null.
• postedWithin is CWJobs' own filter. It also returns some older adverts that CWJobs still treats as recent (in October 2026 about a third of a "last 7 days" pull had an original postedDate older than 7 days). Filter on postedDate if you need the strict window.
• Some agencies label themselves as direct employers. Check the name if the split matters to you.
• Company websites are not shown on CWJobs. companyProfileUrl points to the company's job list on CWJobs.
• Totaljobs IT adverts are cross-posted to CWJobs, so the same job can also appear in a Totaljobs dataset.
• The run fails on purpose when no job is found, so an empty dataset never looks like a successful run.

About CWJobs

CWJobs.co.uk is the IT and technology job board of the Totaljobs Group (StepStone). It lists permanent and contract roles across software development, data, cloud, infrastructure, security, IT support and project delivery, from employers and recruitment agencies across the UK.

Maintained by Studio Amba

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Need this data on a schedule, or a custom version?

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