Jobs.ac.uk Job Scraper

Extract job listings from jobs.ac.uk at scale, in a clean, consistent structure ready for analysis, job boards, recruiting tools and market research. No API key required.

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Why this scraper?

🎯 Built for the United Kingdom

A dedicated UK academic scraper, not a global tool with a country dropdown. Search, locations and currency (GBP) are tuned for jobs.ac.uk.

📄 Complete job data

Full job title and description, direct listing URL and publish date for every record.

💶 Salary data

Salary information parsed from the listing where the employer publishes it, in GBP. Missing salaries are returned as null, never guessed.

📍 Location fields

Structured location data for every listing, ready for filtering and analysis.

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Input parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
searchQuery	string	(empty)	Job title, skills, or keywords to search for.
location	string	(empty)	City or region to search in (e.g. London, Cambridge, Edinburgh).
distance	string	(empty)	Search radius in miles from the specified location. Options: 0, 1, 2, 5, 10, 15, 20, 30, 40, 50, 75, 100.
discipline	string	(empty)	Academic discipline slug (e.g. computer-science, biology, economics). See jobs.ac.uk facets for valid values.
jobType	string	(empty)	Employment type filter (e.g. academic, research, professional, technical).
employer	string	(empty)	Filter by employer name.
maxJobs	integer	100	Maximum number of jobs to scrape. Default is 100. Set to 0 for unlimited (caution: may be slow for broad searches).
fetchDetails	boolean	false	If true, fetches each job detail page for rich data (description, structured salary, employment type). If false, returns only listing-level data (faster, cheaper).
pageSize	integer	25	Number of results per search page. Max 25.
concurrency	integer	5	Number of detail pages to fetch in parallel.
maxResults	integer	100	Maximum number of results to return.

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Output schema

Every field below is present on every record. Fields the source does not publish for a given job are returned as null rather than omitted.

Field	Type	Description
advertId	string	list
title	string	list + JSON-LD
url	string	list
department	string	list
employer	string	JSON-LD
employerUrl	string	JSON-LD
location	string	list
locationCity	string	JSON-LD
locationCountry	string	JSON-LD
isRemote	boolean	JSON-LD
jobLocationType	string	JSON-LD
salaryRaw	string	list
salaryMin	number	JSON-LD
salaryMax	number	JSON-LD
salaryCurrency	string	JSON-LD
salaryUnit	string	JSON-LD
datePlaced	string	list
datePosted	string	JSON-LD
closingDate	string	list
validThrough	string	JSON-LD
employmentType	array	JSON-LD
description	string	JSON-LD
descriptionMarkdown	string	Full description converted to Markdown.
descriptionText	string	JSON-LD
detailFetched	boolean	—

Example record

{
  "advertId": "1080649",
  "title": "Lecturer in Mathematics",
  "url": "https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSD100/lecturer-in-mathematics",
  "department": "Mathematics",
  "employer": "UCL",
  "employerUrl": "http://www.ucl.ac.uk",
  "location": "London, Hybrid",
  "locationCity": "London",
  "locationCountry": "United Kingdom",
  "isRemote": true,
  "jobLocationType": "TELECOMMUTE",
  "salaryRaw": "£54,931 to £62,903",
  "salaryMin": 54931,
  "salaryMax": 62903,
  "salaryCurrency": "GBP",
  "salaryUnit": "YEAR",
  "datePlaced": "02 Jul",
  "datePosted": "2026-07-02T00:00:00+00:00",
  "closingDate": "14 Jul",
  "validThrough": "2026-07-14T00:00:00+00:00",
  "employmentType": [
    "Full Time",
    "Fixed-Term/Contract"
  ],
  "description": "<p><strong>About the role</strong></p>\n<p>Applications are invited for a full-time Lecturer in Mathematics. This post is available from 1<sup>st</sup> September 2026 or as soon as possible thereafter. …",
  "descriptionMarkdown": "**About the role**\n\nApplications are invited for a full-time Lecturer in Mathematics. This post is available from 1st September 2026 or as soon as possible thereafter.\n\n**About you**\n\nAn outstanding c …",
  "descriptionText": "About the role Applications are invited for a full-time Lecturer in Mathematics. This post is available from 1 st September 2026 or as soon as possible thereafter. About you An outstanding candidate w …",
  "detailFetched": true
}

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Examples

Search for lecturer roles in London:

{
  "searchQuery": "lecturer",
  "location": "London",
  "maxResults": 100
}

Filter by contract type:

{
  "searchQuery": "lecturer",
  "location": "London",
  "maxResults": 100,
  "jobType": "FULL_TIME"
}

Larger run with a hard cap:

{
  "searchQuery": "lecturer",
  "location": "London",
  "maxResults": 500
}

Daily feed (run on a schedule):

{
  "searchQuery": "lecturer",
  "maxResults": 500
}

Schedule this input in the Apify Scheduler (for example daily at 07:00) to keep an always-fresh feed of the newest listings.

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💰 Pricing

$1.49 per 1,000 results — you only pay for successfully retrieved listings. Failed retries are never charged.

Results	Cost
100	~$0.15
1,000	~$1.49
10,000	~$14.9
100,000	~$149

Flat-rate alternatives typically charge $29–$49/month regardless of usage.

Subscription tiers lower the rate further, down to $0.89 per 1,000 at the highest tier. Use the Max results cap in the input to control your spend exactly.

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Performance

Run size	Typical time
100 results	under 1 minute
1,000 results	2–4 minutes
10,000 results	20–35 minutes

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Known limitations

• Salary is only returned when the employer publishes it — many listings carry null salary fields.
• Company details vary per listing; the scraper returns what the source publishes and never invents data.
• Very large result sets are bounded by the source's own paging limits.
• Listings can be removed by the source at any time, so a small share of URLs may expire shortly after scraping.

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Technical details

• Source: jobs.ac.uk — the United Kingdom job listings
• Coverage: everything the public search exposes, filterable via the input parameters above
• Retry: automatic retry on network errors with exponential backoff

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