Find a job, the DWP vacancy service, now lives inside Work Hub on jobs.service.gov.uk. Our Find a job scraper follows it there and collects the ads in your scope.
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To scrape DWP Find a job well you need a scope, not a script: keywords, towns or postcodes, distance, contract types and working patterns. You set it, and we turn it into a crawl, run it on your timetable and fix it when pages change - the service is still labelled Beta. You receive files, not software. Find a job sits behind a web application firewall, so request pacing, proxy rotation and anti-bot handling are included.
Records arrive as CSV, Excel (XLSX), JSON or XML, by SFTP, Google Cloud Storage, Google Drive or as a load into your database, with a document describing each field. Collection can be a single extract or a daily, weekly or on-demand run. We assess the project for free, and you can order a sample first.
A vacancy on Find a job opens at /jobs/ followed by a long hexadecimal job id, and the ad page sets its facts out as a labelled list. We return one row per vacancy with those labels as columns:
Contact names, phone numbers and e-mail addresses that advertisers write into a summary are personal data; we remove them by default and treat the employer as a business. Jobseeker accounts and saved favourites sit behind GOV.UK One Login and are never part of the dataset.
One pass over Find a job is a snapshot; most buyers want the flow. Runs keyed on the job id record each vacancy's first and last appearance, so a Closing date can be set against the day an ad actually came down, and repeated searches show how many vacancies a town or occupation gains and loses each week.
Coverage is built from the service's own filters: distance bands from Less than 1 mile to Show me all, Posting date from Since yesterday to Last 14 days, six salary bands, contract type, hours and the Disability Confident switch. One detail matters for completeness - a default search leaves the Remote box unticked, so remote vacancies have to be asked for explicitly. We include them unless you tell us otherwise.
Reposts are common. A staffing agency can carry the same Warehouse Operative ad under several job ids with different posting dates and near-identical summaries. We flag these duplicates, keep the earliest posting date and let you decide whether to count each ad or each distinct vacancy.
Find a job is the vacancy service of the Department for Work and Pensions, the one GOV.UK sends people to for full or part-time jobs in England, Scotland and Wales. GOV.UK points Northern Ireland jobseekers to a separate service, yet employers still post Belfast vacancies here. Employers open an account and post adverts free of charge. Among the advertisers are NHS trusts, academy trusts, charities and staffing agencies, side by side with private firms such as training providers, insurers and facilities companies.
The service has moved. The old findajob.dwp.gov.uk address now forwards to Work Hub, a newer DWP service on jobs.service.gov.uk marked Beta, where Find a job sits next to an AI work assistant, a CV builder and an action plan. Job ids changed with the move, from short numbers to long hexadecimal strings, so lists built against the old site cannot be joined to the new one on the id.
Pages switch between English and Cymraeg. Searching is open to anyone: a job title or keyword, a city or postcode, then filters for working pattern, distance, posting date, salary range, contract type, hours, Disability Confident employers and words to include or exclude, with results sorted by relevance, date or salary. Saving a favourite means signing in with GOV.UK One Login; reading the vacancies does not.
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Full plan details →Find a job carries a different slice of the market from the commercial boards: entry-level, shift-based and public sector vacancies, posted at no cost to the employer. That makes it useful for:
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Leveraging advances in technology, the AI-powered web scraper has skyrocketed in demand and is helping to expand capabilities by automating tedious daily tasks and speeding up data collection from thousands of websites several times over.
Web scraping is a method of obtaining web data by extracting it from pages of web resources with the help of a program, that is, in automatic mode. It is used to syntactically convert web pages into more usable forms.
If you specialize in machine learning, you need to feed large amounts of data to the algorithms. Web scraping is the easiest and the most efficient method of collecting the data from all over the Internet.
ScrapeIt builds and runs crawlers for clients who need data from websites but not the chore of collecting it. A public job service like Find a job rewards patience more than speed: free-text salary lines, reposted ads and a Beta service that has already moved address once. We carry that upkeep, document each column and deliver on your timetable. Vacancies are business data; personal details in ad text fall under GDPR and stay out unless your project needs them and the ad shows them openly.
Yes. The ScrapeIt Find a job API returns the job id, title, company, salary text with parsed figures, hours, job type, working pattern and closing date as JSON from an endpoint we host, refreshed on the schedule you set. You can also take the same records as CSV or Excel files, a JSON feed or a load into your own database.
Yes. Each vacancy on Find a job, with its employer, salary, hours and dates, opens to any visitor without signing in. We collect only publicly available data - everything a visitor can see on Find a job - and we collect it legally. Personal details typed into ad summaries stay out of the dataset by default.
Yes. GOV.UK sends jobseekers in England, Scotland and Wales to Find a job, and a search can run nationwide or around any city or postcode. Northern Ireland has its own service, but vacancies located there still turn up - a Belfast search returns ads from engineering consultancies and care agencies. Each row keeps the town and postcode as printed, so we tag it by nation and region rather than assume Great Britain.
Every day. New ads arrive daily and each one carries its own Posting date and Closing date, while agencies repost roles under fresh job ids. A daily run catches short-lived ads and shows when each came down; a weekly run suits trend reports that only need counts.
Yes. The Salary line is free text: hourly or annual ranges, ranges whose two ends are the same figure, a from figure, a full-time equivalent next to a pro rata amount, an NJC pay-scale grade, or simply Competitive. We keep the original wording and add minimum, maximum, period and an annual figure where the text supports one, so a pro rata amount is never mistaken for the full-time rate.
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You share your needs, expectations, and desired timeframe. We’ll suggest the best solution based on your request and budget.
Step 2 - Configuring Custom Web Crawlers
Our specialists configure the crawlers and extract a sample dataset for your review before proceeding with the full-scale extraction.
Step 3 - Collect and Deliver
Once you approve the sample, we launch the project and start full data collection. We gather, filter, and structure the data for easy use, delivering it on time in your preferred format.
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Our team manages ongoing processes, monitors website changes, and supports all data extraction cycles. We can also help integrate data into your systems or create dashboards to simplify analysis.
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