Hays UK Scraper - Jobs & Salary Data

What does Hays Scraper do?

Hays Scraper extracts job listings from Hays.co.uk, one of the world's largest recruitment agencies with thousands of live UK vacancies across every professional sector. Give it a keyword and (optionally) a UK location, and it returns structured data for every matching job: title, recruitment consultant and contact email, industry, specialism, salary (with the correct annual/day-rate/hourly basis), contract type, description snippet, posting date, expiry date, and a direct apply link. It reads Hays' own JSON search API, so there is no login, no cookies, and no browser automation required.

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

How to scrape Hays data

1. Go to the Hays 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. "accountant", "project manager", "software developer", "HR advisor").
4. Optionally enter a UK location (e.g. "London", "Manchester", "Birmingham", "Leeds"). Leave it empty to search across the whole UK.
5. Set the maximum number of results you want (default: 100).
6. Leave the proxy configuration on GB residential (the default).
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 Hays Scraper?

• UK salary benchmarking -- compare advertised pay across roles, sectors, and cities, with the correct annual/day-rate/hourly basis attached to every figure.
• Recruitment intelligence -- see which consultants and specialisms are active on which roles, and spot hiring trends at one of the UK's largest agencies before your competitors do.
• Labour market analysis -- understand demand across sectors and regions. Which areas have the most vacancies? Which specialisms are in shortest supply?
• Lead generation -- Hays job listings surface active hiring employers by industry and region, useful for targeting B2B services, tools, or staffing solutions at companies currently recruiting.
• Job aggregation -- feed structured UK listings into your own job board, career site, or candidate-alert system.
• Academic and policy research -- clean, structured data for labour economics, skills-gap studies, and workforce reports.

About Hays.co.uk

Hays is a listed, blue-chip global recruitment and staffing group operating job boards across roughly a dozen markets. Hays.co.uk is its UK business, one of the country's best-known recruitment agencies, covering thousands of live vacancies across every professional sector. Key characteristics:

• Coverage: Nationwide UK, from London to regional towns, plus remote and hybrid roles.
• Sectors: All major white-collar sectors -- Accountancy & Finance, IT & Technology, Construction & Property, HR, Legal, Sales & Marketing, Life Sciences, Engineering, and more.
• Confidential employers: Hays is a recruitment agency, not a job board -- many roles are posted under Hays' own name with the actual hiring company kept confidential until a candidate applies. The scraper captures the assigned Hays consultant and their contact details instead of a company name.
• Salary data: Most adverts show a specific range, tagged as an annual salary, a day rate (for contract/temporary roles), or an hourly rate. This actor reads that tag and formats the salary field accordingly (e.g. "£85,000 - £95,000 per annum" vs "£250 - £400 per day").
• Work patterns: Full-time, part-time, contract, and temporary roles.

Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
searchQuery	string	No	Job keyword to search for. Defaults to accountant 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 100.
proxyConfiguration	object	No	Apify proxy settings. Defaults to GB residential.

Example input

{
  "searchQuery": "project manager",
  "location": "Manchester",
  "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	string	JOB_5402341
jobReference	string	4810134
jobTitle	string	Treasury Accountant
recruiter	string	Hays
consultant	string	Alex Stirling
consultantEmail	string	Alex.Stirling@hays.com
industry	string	Manufacturing & Production
specialism	string	AccFin
subSpecialism	string	TaxTreasury
department	string	Tax and Treasury
location	string	London
salaryMin	number	85000
salaryMax	number	95000
currency	string	GBP
salaryType	string	Annual Salary
salary	string	£85,000 - £95,000 per annum
contractType	string	FULL_TIME
descriptionSnippet	string	Your new company FTSE 100 business...
publishedDate	string	2026-07-01T00:00:00.000Z
expiryDate	string	2026-09-29T00:00:00.000Z
url	string	https://www.hays.co.uk/job-detail/JOB_5402341
scrapedAt	string	2026-07-26T10:12:54.968Z

Example output

{
  "jobId": "JOB_5402341",
  "jobReference": "4810134",
  "jobTitle": "Treasury Accountant",
  "recruiter": "Hays",
  "consultant": "Alex Stirling",
  "consultantEmail": "Alex.Stirling@hays.com",
  "industry": "Manufacturing & Production",
  "specialism": "AccFin",
  "subSpecialism": "TaxTreasury",
  "department": "Tax and Treasury",
  "location": "London",
  "salaryMin": 85000,
  "salaryMax": 95000,
  "currency": "GBP",
  "salaryType": "Annual Salary",
  "salary": "£85,000 - £95,000 per annum",
  "contractType": "FULL_TIME",
  "descriptionSnippet": "Your new company FTSE 100 business and a leader in its field is currently looking to recruit a Treasury Accountant...",
  "publishedDate": "2026-07-01T00:00:00.000Z",
  "expiryDate": "2026-09-29T00:00:00.000Z",
  "url": "https://www.hays.co.uk/job-detail/JOB_5402341",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-07-26T10:12:54.968Z"
}

Cost estimate

This actor is billed on Apify's Pay Per Result model. Hays' search API returns 10 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 returned by Hays' search API (title, consultant, salary, location, description snippet, dates, links). It does not open each advert to pull the full formatted job description body beyond the first ~600 characters.
• Employer names are usually not disclosed -- Hays keeps the underlying hiring company confidential on most listings. The consultant and consultantEmail fields identify who to contact instead of a company field.
• Salary as advertised -- when a role doesn't disclose a figure, the salary fields are null. The salaryType field tells you whether a present figure is an annual salary, a day rate, or an hourly rate.
• UK focus -- this actor targets Hays' UK site (hays.co.uk). Hays operates similar sites in other markets; this actor does not cover those.
• Result ceiling -- deep result sets are paginated 10 at a time; very large maxResults values will walk many pages. Keep maxResults reasonable for the query you actually need.

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FAQ

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

Why don't I see a company/employer name? Hays is a recruitment agency. Most listings are posted under Hays' own name with the underlying employer kept confidential -- the actor returns the assigned Hays consultant and their contact email instead.

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

Is scraping Hays.co.uk 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.

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