EU Vacancy Feed

Search up to 50 European job boards at once and get back one deduplicated feed of vacancies. Give it a keyword, and it returns a merged list of jobs with company, location, language, salary (when published) and the date posted — with duplicate postings across boards collapsed into a single row.

This actor does not scrape a website itself. It runs our own job board scrapers in parallel — general boards, national and regional public employment services (PES), and pan-European sector boards — normalizes every result to one schema, and merges rows that are the same vacancy.

Why use this actor?

Recruiters, sales teams doing account research, and labor-market analysts all care about the same signal: who is hiring for what, right now, across borders. Checking dozens of national job boards by hand is slow, and every board names its fields differently (jobTitle vs itemTitle vs title, company vs employer). This actor does the fan-out and the field mapping in one call, and adds something none of the individual boards give you: when the same vacancy shows up on more than one board, that's flagged directly on the row. A company posting the same role on 2-3 national boards simultaneously is pushing hard to fill it — useful as a hiring-intensity signal on its own, not just deduplication housekeeping.

Public employment service (PES) boards are included from the same run. Sites like France Travail, VDAB, Bundesagentur für Arbeit, and Werk.nl carry postings that never reach the big commercial boards — smaller employers, apprenticeships, and public-sector roles that don't pay for listings.

What it returns

Each row is one deduplicated vacancy. sourceBoards lists every board it was found on; postingCount is the length of that list. A postingCount of 1 means it only appeared on one board. Real example from a live run against Jobs.ch and JobUp.ch — the same Swiss listing indexed on both:

{
    "title": "Application Developer Java 80 - 100%",
    "company": "Fust | Swiss Household Services AG",
    "location": "Oberbüren",
    "country": "CH",
    "language": "de",
    "salary": null,
    "postedAt": "2026-07-15T08:25:35+02:00",
    "url": "https://www.jobs.ch/de/stellenangebote/detail/bea8b500-2c38-4338-9995-c02f124246f4/",
    "sourceBoard": "Jobs.ch",
    "sourceBoards": ["Jobs.ch", "JobUp.ch"],
    "postingCount": 2,
    "scrapedAt": "2026-08-16T07:16:40.611Z"
}

And a single-board example from a public employment service, France Travail:

{
    "title": "Alternance Business Developer (H/F)",
    "company": "ORBO",
    "location": "59 - Lille",
    "country": "FR",
    "language": "fr",
    "salary": null,
    "postedAt": "Publié il y a 6 jours",
    "url": "https://candidat.francetravail.fr/offres/recherche/detail/...",
    "sourceBoard": "France Travail (France PES)",
    "sourceBoards": ["France Travail (France PES)"],
    "postingCount": 1,
    "scrapedAt": "2026-08-16T11:29:49.082Z"
}

Use cases

• Recruiters and staffing agencies scanning multiple national markets for a role at once instead of checking each board separately, including the public boards commercial job-board scrapers miss.
• Sales and account research — a spike in vacancies at a company, or the same role posted on 3 boards, is a leading indicator of growth, funding, or restructuring worth knowing before a sales call.
• Labor-market and workforce analysts tracking hiring demand for a role or sector across the EU without stitching together dozens of different data sources, public and commercial.
• Financial-sector recruiters and compliance teams — eFinancialCareers is included as a dedicated board for banking, trading and fintech roles across the UK, Switzerland and Germany.
• Job boards and HR platforms backfilling international listings for a niche vertical without building 50 separate scrapers.

How to scrape European job listings

1. Enter a Keyword — a job title or skill (e.g. developer, accountant, nurse). It's passed as-is to every selected board's own search, so a term that exists in the local language of that market works best (English tech terms like "developer" or "engineer" usually match across most boards too).
2. Leave Countries and Boards empty to run the default set: the original 13 general boards, every public employment service, and eFinancialCareers UK — 26 boards, tuned to stay fast and affordable.
3. To go wider: set Countries to pull every board for a market (e.g. ["DE"] returns StepStone Germany, Jobware, XING Jobs and Bundesagentur für Arbeit together), or set Boards to pick exact boards from the full 50-board roster (sector boards like NHS Jobs, CharityJob, or jobs.ac.uk are opt-in this way).
4. Set Max Per Board to control how many raw vacancies each board contributes before deduplication.
5. Run the actor. All selected boards are queried in parallel via our own scraper actors, so adding boards doesn't multiply run time — a default 26-board run typically finishes in 1-3 minutes.
6. Open the dataset. Each row is one deduplicated vacancy. Sort or filter on postingCount > 1 to see which vacancies are being pushed on multiple boards at once.
7. Check RUN_SUMMARY in the key-value store for per-run stats: boards queried, boards failed, raw count before dedup, and how many vacancies were multi-posted.

Pre-configured Tasks

Run these directly, no input needed:

• Developer jobs in Belgium, Ireland, Germany, and Switzerland
• IT jobs in Poland
• Nursing jobs in Germany and Austria

Input

Field	Type	Description
keyword	string	Job title or keyword to search for across all selected boards. Defaults to "developer".
countries	array	Filter which country boards to query — matches every board for that country (general + PES + sector). ISO2 codes: DE, AT, NL, GB, FR, CH, PL, DK, ES, BE, IE, EU, LU, CZ, BG, PT, RO, SE, NO.
boards	array	Pick exact boards by key, overriding countries. See the board roster table below for the full key list.
maxPerBoard	integer	Maximum vacancies to fetch from each board before deduplication (1-200, default 20).
timeoutPerBoardSecs	integer	Max seconds to wait for each board scraper before treating it as failed (30-600, default 120).
proxyConfiguration	object	Proxy settings passed to the underlying board scrapers. Leave default — each board otherwise falls back to its own known-good country-pinned residential proxy.

Leaving both countries and boards empty runs the default set of 26 boards: the original general-board roster plus every PES plus eFinancialCareers UK. The other ~24 boards (additional general/sector boards) are reachable via countries or boards.

Example input

{
    "keyword": "software engineer",
    "countries": ["DE", "FR", "GB", "CH"],
    "maxPerBoard": 20
}

Cost estimate (per result)

Each board queried triggers one child-actor run, billed on the caller's own Apify account like any other actor-to-actor call — so cost scales with the number of boards selected, not with results returned. The default 26-board set at maxPerBoard: 20 runs in roughly 1-3 minutes and, based on live test runs, uses roughly the same compute per result as running any one of the underlying board scrapers directly. Widening boards to cover more of the full 50-board roster adds proportionally more child-actor runs; fan-out stays parallel (bounded by timeoutPerBoardSecs, not board count), so run time doesn't scale the same way cost does.

Usage cost only settles after the run reports SUCCEEDED — reading the dataset mid-run, before the run finishes, will undercount the actual cost of the boards still in flight.

Output

Field	Type	Description
title	string	Job title of the vacancy
company	string	Hiring company, when the board exposes one
location	string	City or region, when the board exposes one. Parsed from a direct location field where the board has one, or composed from structured parts (city/canton/region) for boards that only expose those
country	string	ISO2 country code of the board (or the vacancy's own country for EURES)
language	string	ISO 639-1 language code of the posting, when the source board exposes it. Falls back to the board's known primary language when the source doesn't carry a per-item language field
salary	string	Salary as listed, raw text or a min–max range. Not every board publishes this
postedAt	string	Date posted, as reported by the source board (raw text, format varies)
url	string	Link to the vacancy on the first board it was found on
sourceBoard	string	First board this vacancy was found on
sourceBoards	array	Every board this vacancy was found posted on
postingCount	integer	Number of distinct boards — 2+ is a hiring-intensity signal
scrapedAt	string	ISO timestamp of collection

Board roster

Four layers per market: general boards, national or regional public employment services, pan-European sector boards, and a wide tail of niche/sector boards. ★ marks the 26 boards in the default set (no countries/boards filter).

General boards

Key	Country	Board
stepstone-de ★	DE	StepStone Germany
stepstone-at ★	AT	StepStone Austria
stepstone-nl ★	NL	StepStone Netherlands
stepstone-be	BE	StepStone Belgium
reed ★	GB	Reed
totaljobs	GB	Totaljobs
jobsite	GB	Jobsite
nhs-jobs	GB	NHS Jobs (healthcare sector)
charityjob	GB	CharityJob (nonprofit sector)
jobs-ac-uk	GB	jobs.ac.uk (academia sector)
hellowork ★	FR	HelloWork
cadremploi	FR	Cadremploi (executive)
jobteaser	FR	JobTeaser (student/grad)
jobs-ch ★	CH	Jobs.ch
jobup-ch ★	CH	JobUp.ch
jobscout24-ch	CH	JobScout24.ch
pracuj ★	PL	Pracuj.pl
rocketjobs-pl	PL	RocketJobs.pl (IT)
nofluffjobs	PL	No Fluff Jobs (IT)
jobindex ★	DK	Jobindex
infojobs ★	ES	InfoJobs
jobat ★	BE	Jobat
irishjobs ★	IE	IrishJobs
moovijob	LU	Moovijob
jobs-lu	LU	Jobs.lu
jobs-cz	CZ	Jobs.cz
jobs-bg	BG	Jobs.bg
jobware	DE	Jobware
xing-jobs	DE	XING Jobs
willhaben-jobs	AT	Willhaben Jobs
werkzoeken	NL	Werkzoeken.nl
jobbird	NL	Jobbird
itjobs-pt	PT	ITJobs.pt (IT)
ejobs	RO	eJobs.ro
eures ★	EU	EURES (pan-European aggregator)

Public employment services (PES)

National, or regional where the market is regionalized (Belgium: Brussels + Flanders).

Key	Country	Board
actiris ★	BE	Actiris (Brussels)
vdab ★	BE	VDAB (Flanders)
arbeitsagentur ★	DE	Bundesagentur für Arbeit
ams ★	AT	AMS
werk-nl ★	NL	Werk.nl
arbetsformedlingen ★	SE	Arbetsförmedlingen
nav ★	NO	NAV
sepe ★	ES	SEPE
francetravail ★	FR	France Travail
job-room-ch ★	CH	Job-Room
jobnet ★	DK	Jobnet
jobsireland ★	IE	JobsIreland

Pan-European sector boards

Key	Country	Board
efinancialcareers-gb ★	GB	eFinancialCareers (UK — highest-volume market)
efinancialcareers-ch	CH	eFinancialCareers (Switzerland)
efinancialcareers-de	DE	eFinancialCareers (Germany)

Deduplication logic

Vacancies are matched across boards by a fingerprint of company + title + location, normalized for:

• Case — "Software Engineer" and "SOFTWARE ENGINEER" match
• Diacritics — "Développeur" and "Developpeur" match
• Common EU legal-entity suffixes — "Acme GmbH", "Acme Gmbh", and "ACME" all normalize to the same company, likewise for SARL, BV, NV, Ltd, PLC, Srl, Sp z o.o., S.r.o., Oy, AB, Kft and a dozen others

When a fingerprint matches across two or more boards, the row keeps the first board's data as primary, fills in any missing salary/company/location/language/postedAt from the duplicate, and appends the new board to sourceBoards. A fingerprint match within the same board (e.g. pagination overlap) is silently deduplicated but does not count toward postingCount.

FAQ

Does this actor scrape the job boards itself? No. It calls our own board scrapers and merges their output. Each is also available separately on the Store.

Why is salary often null? Most European job boards don't publish salary on the listing page — it's negotiated after contact. Boards that show it do so when the poster included it; several boards generally don't expose it at all.

Why is language sometimes null? It's populated whenever the source board carries a per-item language field, and otherwise falls back to that board's known primary language. It's only null for a board whose items carry neither.

Why did a board return 0 results? Job board anti-bot protection is intermittent — a board can 403 one run and work fine the next. A single failing board never blocks the run; check boardsFailed in RUN_SUMMARY to see which boards didn't come back that run.

How often will I see postingCount > 1? Less often than you might expect for a broad keyword — the fingerprint requires an exact normalized match on title, company AND location, so two boards need to carry genuinely the same posting, not just a similar one. It shows up reliably for markets where two boards share an underlying platform (Jobs.ch/JobUp.ch) or where EURES re-indexes a national board's own listings.

Can I run just one country or a handful of boards? Yes. Set countries to a single ISO2 code (e.g. ["FR"] for every French board), or set boards to an exact list of board keys.

Limitations

• sourceBoards and postingCount only capture postings within the boards actually queried in a given run — a vacancy posted on a board outside the selected set won't be detected as a duplicate.
• Salary, when present, is left as raw board text (currency and period vary by board) rather than normalized into a single numeric format.
• postedAt format varies by board: some report an ISO timestamp, others relative or free text as published on the site.
• Data is scraped from public job board listings and may change without notice.

Related actors

Each board behind this feed also runs standalone if you need full-catalogue coverage of a single market:

• StepStone Germany
• Reed
• France Travail
• eFinancialCareers
• EURES

We also run this as a managed service: scheduled runs, a fixed keyword/country list, and delivery to your inbox, Google Sheets, or API, maintenance included. See studioamba.dev/services or email hello@studioamba.dev for a free data sample.