NHS Jobs Scraper

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👁 NHS Jobs Scraper

Extract structured job listings from NHS Jobs — the official recruitment platform for the UK's National Health Service, with over 60,000 active vacancies across hospitals, GP practices, mental health trusts, community care, and NHS support services. No API key required.

Why this scraper?

🏥 Complete NHS Job Board Coverage

Access the full NHS Jobs database — clinical, administrative, scientific, and medical roles across England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland.

🎯 NHS-Specific Filters

Filter by NHS pay band (Band 2–9, Consultant, VSM), staff group (Nursing & Midwifery, Allied Health, Medical & Dental, and more), contract type, and working pattern in a single run.

📄 Full Job Descriptions

Optionally fetch complete job summaries, main duties, responsibilities, and employer information from each listing's detail page.

💷 Structured Salary & Pay Band Data

Salary strings are parsed into salaryMin, salaryMax, salaryPeriod, and currency fields. NHS-specific paySchemeType (e.g. Agenda for change) and payBand (e.g. Band 6) are extracted directly from each listing.

🔁 Repost Detection

Cross-run deduplication tracks job IDs for 90 days — isRepost: true flags re-advertised vacancies, and originalPublishDate shows when they first appeared.

📍 Location & Distance Search

Search by city, postcode, or region with configurable distance radii (5–100 miles). Results include structured city and postcode fields extracted from the listing.

Input parameters

Output schema

Each result contains:

{
"id":"A2026-26-0001",
"url":"https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/A2026-26-0001",
"title":"Staff Nurse",
"company":"University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust",
"location":"London WC1E 6BT",
"city":"London",
"postcode":"WC1E 6BT",
"country":"GB",
"salaryRaw":"£35,964 - £43,780 per annum",
"salaryMin":35964,
"salaryMax":43780,
"salaryPeriod":"YEAR",
"currency":"GBP",
"contractType":"Permanent",
"workingPattern":"Full-time",
"publishDate":"2026-04-28",
"publishDateISO":"2026-04-28",
"closingDate":"2026-05-15",
"closingDateISO":"2026-05-15",
"referenceNumber":"A2026-26-0001",
"paySchemeType":"Agenda for change",
"payBand":"Band 6",
"salaryDetail":"£35,964 - £43,780 per annum including HCAS",
"fullAddress":"235 Euston Road, London, WC1E 6BT",
"tracJobReference":"UCL-26-0001",
"employerWebsite":"https://www.uclh.nhs.uk/",
"contactTitle":"Recruitment Team",
"descriptionHtml":"<h2>Job summary</h2><p>...</p>",
"descriptionText":"Job summary ...",
"descriptionMarkdown":"## Job summary\n\n...",
"summary":"First 200 characters of the job description...",
"contentHash":"a1b2c3d4e5f60718",
"source":"jobs.nhs.uk",
"scrapedAt":"2026-05-06T12:00:00.000Z",
"isRepost":false,
"originalPublishDate":null,
"originalUrl":null
}

Field reference

Note: Fields marked Detail only are null when fetchDetails: false.

Example inputs

1. Band 6 nurses in London

{
"searchQuery":"nurse",
"location":"London",
"distance":20,
"payBands":["BAND_6"],
"maxResults":200,
"fetchDetails":true
}

2. All new listings since yesterday

{
"sortBy":"publicationDateDesc",
"daysOld":1,
"maxResults":500,
"fetchDetails":false
}

3. Permanent Allied Health roles

{
"contractTypes":["Permanent"],
"staffGroups":["ALLIED_HEALTH_PROF"],
"maxResults":300,
"fetchDetails":true
}

4. Regional search

{
"location":"Birmingham",
"distance":30,
"staffGroups":["ALLIED_HEALTH_PROF"],
"sortBy":"closingDate",
"maxResults":150
}

5. Specific listings by URL

{
"startUrls":[
{"url":"https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/A2026-26-0001"}
],
"fetchDetails":true
}

💰 Pricing

$0.79 per 1,000 results — you only pay for successfully retrieved listings. Failed retries and filtered reposts are never charged.

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

Use the Max results cap in the input to control your spend exactly.

Performance

Known limitations

• A maximum of 10 results are available per search page; deep pagination (1,000+ results) requires additional time.
• Job descriptions are only available in full when fetchDetails: true is set.
• The NHS Jobs platform does not expose salary data for all listings — some roles show "Depends on experience" or "See advert".
• Vacancies from devolved nations (Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland) may have limited availability depending on the trust's recruitment platform.

Technical details

• Source: jobs.nhs.uk — Official NHS recruitment platform for England and devolved nations
• Architecture: HTTP-only, JSON-HTML (regex on stable id/data-test attributes used by NHS's own E2E tests)
• Memory: 256 MB
• Repost storage: KeyValueStore nhsjobs-uk-job-dedup, 90-day TTL
• Retry: Automatic retry on network errors, exponential backoff, 3 attempts per request

Additional services

Need a custom actor, additional filters, scheduled runs, or integration support?.nl](mailto:info@unfencedgroup.nl) — we build on request.

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• CV-Library Scraper
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• Reed.co.uk Scraper
• Totaljobs Job Scraper — Search & Extract UK Job Listings
• TotallyLegal Jobs Scraper

Run it on a schedule

This actor is built for repeat use. Set it to run daily, weekly, or hourly, and the data keeps flowing without you touching it.

• Schedule runs — open the actor, go to Schedules, and pick a cadence. Each run only charges you for the results it returns.
• Connect it to your stack — push results straight to Google Sheets, Slack, a webhook, or your database using Apify Integrations. No glue code needed.
• Pull results via API — every run writes a clean dataset you can fetch with one API call, ready for whatever you build on top of it.

Set it once and it runs on its own.

Need a custom scraper?

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