GulfTalent Jobs & Salary Benchmarks

GulfTalent is one of the largest job boards for the Gulf and wider Middle East. This actor turns its public job search, employer careers pages and salary-benchmark pages into clean, structured records — 38 markets, 32 job categories, 39 industries and ten salary currencies, with no account, cookie or API key required.

What it does

• Searches jobs by keyword across one or many queries and pages through the complete result set, de-duplicating repeated postings.
• Filters by country, city, category, industry, career level, employment type, nationality preference, remote, Easy Apply, exclusive and posting age.
• Pulls every open job from one employer's GulfTalent careers page, including large employers whose page embeds thousands of roles.
• Accepts pasted job, search and company URLs and routes each one to the right collector.
• Exports salary benchmarks — 10th/25th/50th/75th/90th percentiles, sample sizes, allowance percentages and related titles.
• Omits empty fields at every depth: a posting that doesn't disclose a salary simply has no salary fields.

Services

Mode	What it returns
search	Job records for one or more keywords and any combination of filters
byCompany	Every open job listed on one company's GulfTalent careers page
byUrls	Records from a mixed list of job, search/listing and company URLs
salary	Salary-benchmark records for one or more titles in one GCC country

How it works

The actor reads GulfTalent's public search results and job/company/salary pages directly. Search results are paged by true row offset, so a request for thousands of records keeps going until the source is exhausted or maxItems is reached. Detail pages add the full description, salary, address and preference fields when fetchFullDetails is on. Salary records come from GulfTalent's own benchmark pages, which publish percentile bands per title and country.

All job URLs are normalised to canonical https://www.gulftalent.com/... links, and timestamps are returned in ISO 8601 UTC.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
mode	string	search	search, byCompany, byUrls or salary
searchQueries	array	["accountant"]	One or more keywords (mode=search). Empty = browse all jobs matching the filters
country	string	uae	One of 38 GulfTalent markets, or empty for any country
city	string	–	One of 30 cities; also selects the city's country
category	string	–	One of 32 job categories
industry	string	–	One of 39 hiring-company industries
careerLevel	string	–	Fresh graduate, junior, experienced, manager or director
employmentTypes	array	[]	Any of full-time, part-time, contract, temporary, internship
nationality	string	–	One of six Gulf nationality preferences
remoteOnly	boolean	false	Keep only remote-flagged postings
easyApplyOnly	boolean	false	Keep only jobs with Easy Apply
exclusiveOnly	boolean	false	Keep only GulfTalent-exclusive postings
postedWithinDays	integer	0	0–90; 0 means any age
includeKeywords	array	[]	Keep jobs whose title/description/function contains any term
excludeKeywords	array	[]	Drop jobs whose title/description/function contains any term
minSalary / maxSalary	integer	–	Salary bounds in the job's own currency; undisclosed salaries are kept
fetchFullDetails	boolean	true	Visit each job page for description, salary, address and preferences
maxItems	integer	25	Hard record cap (1–10000)
companyUrl	string	–	Company page URL or slug (mode=byCompany)
startUrls	array	[]	Job, search or company URLs (mode=byUrls)
salaryTitles	array	["accountant"]	Titles to benchmark (mode=salary)
salaryCountry	string	uae	UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain or Oman (mode=salary)
salaryCurrency	string	–	Primary currency; empty uses the country's currency (mode=salary)

Output per job

• jobId, title, referenceNumber
• companyName, companyUrl, companyLogoUrl, companyId, companyConfidential
• country, countrySlug, city, location, area, streetAddress, addressRegion, postalCode
• salaryMin, salaryMax, salaryCurrency, salaryPeriod, salaryLabel, salaryText
• employmentType, jobFunction, categoryId, careerLevel, careerLevelId
• companyIndustry, industryId, nationalityPreference, genderPreference, arabicFluency
• isRemote, isExclusive, easyApply, applyUrl
• description, descriptionHtml, companyDescription, similarJobUrls
• postedAt, validThrough, sourceUrl, searchQuery
• companyJobCount — total open jobs on that employer's page (byCompany)
• recordType: "job", scrapedAt

Output per salary record

• title, titleSlug, jobTitleId, country, countrySlug
• currency, currencyName, salaryPeriod (month)
• percentile10, percentile25, median, percentile75, percentile90
• sampleSize, companyCount, industryCount, batchDate
• salaryByCurrency — all ten currencies with the same percentile bands
• allowanceHousingPct, allowanceTransportPct, allowanceOtherPct
• relatedTitles[] — title, slug, median, currency
• sourceUrl, recordType: "salary", scrapedAt

Example: multi-keyword search with filters

{
  "mode": "search",
  "searchQueries": ["accountant", "financial analyst"],
  "country": "uae",
  "city": "dubai",
  "careerLevel": "experienced",
  "postedWithinDays": 30,
  "fetchFullDetails": true,
  "maxItems": 100
}

Example: all open jobs at a large employer

{
  "mode": "byCompany",
  "companyUrl": "https://www.gulftalent.com/companies/marriott-international-careers",
  "fetchFullDetails": false,
  "maxItems": 1000
}

Example: mixed URLs

{
  "mode": "byUrls",
  "startUrls": [
    "https://www.gulftalent.com/uae/jobs/finance-manager-651612",
    "https://www.gulftalent.com/saudi-arabia/jobs/category/accounting",
    "https://www.gulftalent.com/companies/hays-careers"
  ]
}

Example: salary benchmarks in USD

{
  "mode": "salary",
  "salaryTitles": ["accountant", "project manager", "civil engineer"],
  "salaryCountry": "uae",
  "salaryCurrency": "USD",
  "maxItems": 3
}

Usage cost

You pay only for Apify platform usage — there is no per-record fee from this actor. Listing-only runs (fetchFullDetails: false) are the cheapest because they read one search response per page of results. Turning detail fetching on adds one job-page visit per record. Company runs read one employer page; salary runs read one benchmark page per title. To keep large runs inexpensive, request more records with detail fetching off.

FAQ

Do I need a GulfTalent account or API key? No. The actor reads public GulfTalent pages; no login, cookies or key are required.

Why do some jobs have no salary fields? Employers choose whether to disclose pay. When it isn't disclosed, salaryMin/salaryMax are omitted rather than guessed. salaryText carries a free-text note when one exists.

What is the difference between a job record and a salary record? A job record describes one live posting. A salary record describes GulfTalent's pay benchmark for a title and country, with percentiles and sample size. Use recordType to tell them apart.

Which countries have salary benchmarks? GulfTalent publishes salary pages for six GCC countries: UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain and Oman. Other markets return no salary records and the run reports the coverage limit.

How does maxItems interact with pagination? The actor pages through the source in true row offsets and stops when maxItems is reached or the source is exhausted. It never stops early just because one page had no new postings.

Can I search several keywords at once? Yes — add them to searchQueries. Results from every keyword are de-duplicated by job ID, and searchQuery shows which keyword found each row.

Does remoteOnly use a server-side filter? GulfTalent doesn't expose a reliable remote filter in its search API, so the flag is applied to every posting's own remote marker. The same applies to the posting-age window.

What does byCompany return for a large employer? Every open job GulfTalent lists on that employer's careers page — the full page is read in one pass, so there is no 200-job ceiling. companyJobCount records the total.

Is this affiliated with GulfTalent? No. This is an independent third-party actor using public pages and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by GulfTalent.

Notes

• Empty values are omitted; there are no null fields to defend against.
• postedAt and validThrough are ISO 8601 UTC. Detail pages sometimes publish date-only values, in which case the time is midnight UTC.
• applyUrl is the canonical GulfTalent posting URL. External application links are not exposed by the source.
• salaryByCurrency includes all ten benchmark currencies; the top-level percentile fields use salaryCurrency or the local currency.
• Search totals change as employers add and remove postings, so two runs on different days can legitimately differ.

Limitations

• Salary benchmarks exist only for GCC countries; the actor reports unsupported countries instead of inventing data.
• Arabic-script keywords have no matching GulfTalent search index. The actor falls back to a broad browse plus local text matching, which can be slower than a Latin keyword search.
• GulfTalent does not publish recruiter emails or phone numbers. Those fields are deliberately not fabricated.
• Remote, posting-age, include/exclude and salary checks are applied after the listing or detail page is read; they can make a filtered run read more pages than an unfiltered one.
• Some postings are country-wide ads with no city; city is therefore omitted for those records.