Reed Scraper - UK Jobs, Salaries & Companies

What does Reed Scraper do?

Reed Scraper extracts job listings from Reed.co.uk, the UK's largest job board with over a million live vacancies across every sector. Give it a keyword and (optionally) a location, and it returns structured data for every matching job: title, company, salary range, location, sector, remote-working option, posting date, and a direct link to the advert. It reads Reed's own server-rendered search data, so there is no login, no cookies, and no browser automation required.

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

How to scrape Reed data

1. Go to the Reed 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. "software developer", "nurse", "accountant", "project manager").
4. Optionally enter a UK location (e.g. "london", "manchester", "birmingham"). Leave it empty to search the whole UK.
5. Set the maximum number of results you want (default: 100).
6. Leave the proxy configuration on GB residential (the default) for the most reliable results.
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 Reed Scraper?

• UK salary benchmarking — Reed shows salary ranges on most listings. Compare pay across roles, sectors, and cities, and track how compensation shifts over time.
• Recruitment intelligence — See which companies are hiring, for what roles, and at what pay. Spot hiring trends before your competitors do.
• Labour market analysis — Understand demand across sectors and regions. Which cities have the most vacancies? Which roles pay the most?
• Lead generation — Find employers and recruitment agencies actively hiring to target with B2B services, tools, or staffing solutions.
• Remote work tracking — Every listing carries a remote-working option (Remote, Hybrid, On-site), so you can measure how the UK remote landscape changes.
• Job aggregation — Feed structured 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 Reed.co.uk

Reed.co.uk is one of the UK's oldest and largest recruitment platforms, part of the Reed group founded in 1960. It aggregates vacancies from thousands of employers and recruitment agencies across every sector — technology, healthcare, finance, education, engineering, retail, hospitality, and more. Key characteristics:

• Coverage: Nationwide UK, from London to regional towns, plus remote roles.
• Sectors: All major industries, categorised by Reed's own taxonomy (e.g. Software Engineer, Nursing, Accountancy).
• Salary data: Most adverts include a salary range and pay period (annual, monthly, weekly, daily, or hourly).
• Work patterns: Full-time, part-time, contract, temporary, and permanent roles.

Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
searchQuery	string	No	Job keyword to search for. Defaults to software developer 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": "software developer",
  "location": "london",
  "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	number	56817566
jobTitle	string	Senior Software Engineer
company	string	Awin
location	string	London
salaryFrom	number	55000
salaryTo	number	65000
salaryCurrency	string	GBP
salaryPeriod	string	year
jobType	string	Full-time
remoteOption	string	Hybrid
sector	string	Software Engineer
descriptionSnippet	string	Purpose of the Position As a Senior Software Engineer...
easyApply	boolean	false
promoted	boolean	false
postedDate	string	2026-06-26T15:33:03.383
expiryDate	string	2026-08-07T15:33:03.403
applyUrl	string	https://...
url	string	https://www.reed.co.uk/jobs/senior-software-engineer/56817566
scrapedAt	string	2026-07-09T21:07:59.460Z

Example output

{
  "jobId": 56817566,
  "jobTitle": "Senior Software Engineer",
  "company": "Awin",
  "location": "London",
  "salaryFrom": 55000,
  "salaryTo": 65000,
  "salaryCurrency": "GBP",
  "salaryPeriod": "year",
  "jobType": "Full-time",
  "remoteOption": "Hybrid",
  "sector": "Software Engineer",
  "descriptionSnippet": "Purpose of the Position As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be part of a cross-functional, service-oriented team...",
  "easyApply": false,
  "promoted": false,
  "postedDate": "2026-06-26T15:33:03.383",
  "expiryDate": "2026-08-07T15:33:03.403",
  "applyUrl": "https://api.kombo.dev/v1/ats/jobs/GQ2H5ZrjxtrAScof1Cvvh22C/applications",
  "url": "https://www.reed.co.uk/jobs/senior-software-engineer/56817566",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-07-09T21:07:59.460Z"
}

Cost estimate

This actor is billed on Apify's Pay Per Result model. Reed's search returns 25 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 embedded in Reed's search pages (title, company, salary, location, sector, snippet, dates, links). It does not open each advert to pull the full job description body. The descriptionSnippet field gives you the summary Reed shows on the results page.
• Salary as advertised — salary ranges are exactly what the employer entered. Some adverts show very wide ranges, "competitive", or no salary at all; where Reed has no figure, the salary fields are null.
• Promoted jobs — Reed repeats a small number of promoted listings across pages. The actor deduplicates by jobId, so you never get the same job twice.
• UK focus — Reed.co.uk is a UK job board. Use GB proxies (the default) for the most reliable results.
• Result ceiling — Reed paginates deep result sets; 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 Reed API key or account? No. This actor reads Reed's public search results. There is no login, no cookies, and no API key required.

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

Is scraping Reed legal? This actor collects publicly available job listing data. You are responsible for using the data in line with Reed's terms and applicable law. Do not use it to send unsolicited communications in breach of regulations.