Hays Jobs Scraper: 11 Countries, Salary, Descriptions

The NanoScrape Hays Scraper is an Apify actor that extracts structured web data from hays.com. It returns 45 fields per result including title, company, location, city, category, priced at $5/1k job, with no API key or monthly subscription required.

Scrape Hays jobs from 11 country sites (UK, US, CA, IE, NL, ES, PT, AE, plus Switzerland, Germany and Austria) (source platform). Returns title, location, salary where the advert states one, full description, work arrangement, employment type and industry. Search by keyword, URL or job link.

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Pricing
$5.00 / 1,000 detail job result
Runtime
Cloud (Apify)
Proxy
Datacenter
Coverage
GLOBAL

What you can scrape — 45 fields per result

FieldTypeExampleGroupFill %
idstring4835566Core100%
titlestringTeam Assistant 12 month FTCCore100%
job_urlstringhttps://www.hays.co.uk/job-detail/team-assistant-12-month-ftc-london_4835566Core100%
source_urlstringhttps://www.hays.co.uk/job-detail/team-assistant-12-month-ftc-london_4835566Core100%
apply_urlstring | nullhttps://www.hays.co.uk/job-detail/JOB_5419072Core100%
company_namestring | nullHaysCore100%
contact_namestring | null(populated when data available)Core59%
source_platformstringhaysCore100%
companystring | nullHaysCompany100%
locationstringLondonLocation100%
citystring | nullLondonLocation100%
regionstring | nullSouth EastLocation100%
countrystringGBLocation100%
latitudenumber | null51.5063131Location100%
longitudenumber | null-0.12715357Location100%
description_fullstring | nullYour new company You will be joining a well-established global organisation based in t...Description100%
description_snippetstring | nullYour new company You will be joining a well-established global organisation based in th...Description100%
description_htmlstring | null<div>Your new company</div><div>You will be joining a well-established global organisat...Description100%
description_mdstring | nullYour new company You will be joining a well-established global organisation based in t...Description100%
salary_textstring | null£44kSalary59%
salary_minnumber | null44000Salary24%
salary_maxnumber | null44000Salary24%
salary_currencystring | nullGBPSalary24%
salary_periodstring | nullyearSalary24%
salary_sourcestring | nulltextSalary24%
employment_typestring | nullFull-timeEmployment100%
contract_typestring | nullpermanentEmployment100%
flexible_workingboolean | nulltrueEmployment59%
remote_optionstring | nullhybridEmployment41%
categorystring | nullPersonal Assistant / Executive AssistantsMetadata100%
posted_at_datetimestring | null2026-10-08T00:00:00ZMetadata100%
posted_at_textstring | null2026-10-08Metadata100%
posted_atstring | null2026-10-08Metadata100%
scraped_atstring2026-10-08T08:50:22ZMetadata100%
job_refstring | null4835566Other100%
headlinestring | nullTeam Assistant, 12 months FTC, hybrid working, City LondonOther59%
statestring | nullSouth EastOther100%
work_arrangementstring | nullhybridOther41%
industrystring | nullBusiness or Management ConsultancyOther100%
expires_atstring | null2027-01-05Other59%
contact_emailstring | null(populated when data available)Other59%
contact_phonestring | null(populated when data available)Other59%
contact_officestring | null(populated when data available)Other59%
job_statusstringonlineOther100%
search_querystring | null(populated when data available)Other71%

Input example — showcase (full detail)

{
  "searchQueries": [
    "accountant",
    "site manager"
  ],
  "country": "uk",
  "maxResults": 30,
  "maxResultsPerQuery": 10
}

Output example — real dataset item (PII scrubbed)

{
  "id": "4835566",
  "job_ref": "4835566",
  "title": "Team Assistant 12 month FTC",
  "job_url": "https://www.hays.co.uk/job-detail/team-assistant-12-month-ftc-london_4835566",
  "source_url": "https://www.hays.co.uk/job-detail/team-assistant-12-month-ftc-london_4835566",
  "apply_url": "https://www.hays.co.uk/job-detail/JOB_5419072",
  "company_name": "Hays",
  "company": "Hays",
  "location": "London",
  "city": "London",
  "region": "South East",
  "state": "South East",
  "country": "GB",
  "latitude": 51.5063131,
  "longitude": -0.12715357,
  "employment_type": "Full-time",
  "contract_type": "permanent",
  "flexible_working": true,
  "industry": "Business or Management Consultancy",
  "category": "Personal Assistant / Executive Assistants",
  "salary_text": "£44k",
  "salary_min": 44000,
  "salary_max": 44000,
  "salary_currency": "GBP",
  "salary_period": "year",
  "salary_source": "text",
  "work_arrangement": "hybrid",
  "remote_option": "hybrid",
  "description_full": "Your new company\n\nYou will be joining a well-established global organisation based in the City, London. The team consists of four Executives in the UK and three across Europe, who spend much of their time-out on client sites carrying out surveys. This is a maternity cover position and a key role within the team, acting as the central point of contact and ensuring everything runs smoothly while the Executives are off-site.\n\nYour new role\n\nYou will act as the focal point for the team and wider office, ensuring the Executives remain organised and connected while they are attending site visits. Responsibilities will include report generation and formatting, preparing documentation and reports for underwriters, coordinating administration following site visits, managing queries and providing general PA and Team Assistant support.\n\nAs the team are regularly off-site, you will often be working independently and will be trusted to manage your own workload, prioritise tasks and use your initiative.\n\nThis is a hybrid position, working three days in the office and two days from home, with flexibility around which days you attend the office.\n\nWhat you'll need to succeed\n\nThe ideal candidate will come from a strong PA, Team Assistant, Coordinator or senior administrative background.\n\nYou will be highly organised, proactive and comfortable working independently without close supervision. You will need to be a confident self-starter who can take ownership of your workload and use your initiative to ensure tasks are completed.\n\nStrong communication skills, attention to detail and the ability to build relationships with multiple stakeholders will be essential. You will also need to be confident producing and formatting professional reports and documentation.\n\nWhat you'll get in return\n\nYou will receive a salary of £44,500 (depends on experience), alongside a hybrid working arrangement of three days in the office and two days from home.\n\nThis is an excellent opportunity to join a specialist team in a varied and autonomous support position, where you will have the opportunity to take real ownership of your role.\n\n#4835566 - Sinead Molloy",
  "description_snippet": "Your new company You will be joining a well-established global organisation based in the City, London. The team consists of four Executives in the UK and three across Europe, who spend much of their time-out on client sites carrying out surveys. This is a maternity cover position and a key role w...",
  "description_html": "<div>Your new company</div><div>You will be joining a well-established global organisation based in the City, London. The team consists of four Executives in the UK and three across Europe, who spend much of their time-out on client sites carrying out surveys. This is a maternity cover position and a key role within the team, acting as the central point of contact and ensuring everything runs smoothly while the Executives are off-site.</div><div>Your new role</div><div>You will act as the focal point for the team and wider office, ensuring the Executives remain organised and connected while they are attending site visits. Responsibilities will include report generation and formatting, preparing documentation and reports for underwriters, coordinating administration following site visits, managing queries and providing general PA and Team Assistant support.</div><div>As the team are regularly off-site, you will often be working independently and will be trusted to manage your own workload, prioritise tasks and use your initiative.</div><div>This is a hybrid position, working three days in the office and two days from home, with flexibility around which days you attend the office. </div><div>What you'll need to succeed</div><div>The ideal candidate will come from a strong PA, Team Assistant, Coordinator or senior administrative background.</div><div>You will be highly organised, proactive and comfortable working independently without close supervision. You will need to be a confident self-starter who can take ownership of your workload and use your initiative to ensure tasks are completed.</div><div>Strong communication skills, attention to detail and the ability to build relationships with multiple stakeholders will be essential. You will also need to be confident producing and formatting professional reports and documentation.</div><div>What you'll get in return</div><div>You will receive a salary of £44,500 (depends on experience), alongside a hybrid working arrangement of three days in the office and two days from home.</div><div>This is an excellent opportunity to join a specialist team in a varied and autonomous support position, where you will have the opportunity to take real ownership of your role.</div> #4835566 - Sinead Molloy",
  "description_md": "Your new company\n\nYou will be joining a well-established global organisation based in the City, London. The team consists of four Executives in the UK and three across Europe, who spend much of their time-out on client sites carrying out surveys. This is a maternity cover position and a key role within the team, acting as the central point of contact and ensuring everything runs smoothly while the Executives are off-site.\n\nYour new role\n\nYou will act as the focal point for the team and wider office, ensuring the Executives remain organised and connected while they are attending site visits. Responsibilities will include report generation and formatting, preparing documentation and reports for underwriters, coordinating administration following site visits, managing queries and providing general PA and Team Assistant support.\n\nAs the team are regularly off-site, you will often be working independently and will be trusted to manage your own workload, prioritise tasks and use your initiative.\n\nThis is a hybrid position, working three days in the office and two days from home, with flexibility around which days you attend the office.\n\nWhat you'll need to succeed\n\nThe ideal candidate will come from a strong PA, Team Assistant, Coordinator or senior administrative background.\n\nYou will be highly organised, proactive and comfortable working independently without close supervision. You will need to be a confident self-starter who can take ownership of your workload and use your initiative to ensure tasks are completed.\n\nStrong communication skills, attention to detail and the ability to build relationships with multiple stakeholders will be essential. You will also need to be confident producing and formatting professional reports and documentation.\n\nWhat you'll get in return\n\nYou will receive a salary of £44,500 (depends on experience), alongside a hybrid working arrangement of three days in the office and two days from home.\n\nThis is an excellent opportunity to join a specialist team in a varied and autonomous support position, where you will have the opportunity to take real ownership of your role.\n\n#4835566 - Sinead Molloy",
  "posted_at_datetime": "2026-10-08T00:00:00Z",
  "posted_at_text": "2026-10-08",
  "posted_at": "2026-10-08",
  "expires_at": "2027-01-05",
  "contact_name": null,
  "contact_email": null,
  "contact_phone": null,
  "contact_office": null,
  "headline": "Team Assistant, 12 months FTC, hybrid working, City London",
  "job_status": "online",
  "source_platform": "hays",
  "search_query": null,
  "scraped_at": "2026-10-08T08:50:22Z"
}

Cost math

Priced at $0.0050 per detail job result. 10 detail job results ≈ $0.05, 100 ≈ $0.50, 1,000 ≈ $5.00. The first runs land inside Apify's $5/mo free-tier credit — pay only for what you extract, no monthly subscription.

Integrations

Run this actor directly on Apify (no code)

Click Open on Apify above to run hays-scraper in your browser - no code, no install. In the Apify console you get:

Get your Apify API token

To run this actor from your own code you need an Apify API token. Get one in about a minute:

  1. Sign up for a free Apify account (Google, GitHub, or email).
  2. Go to Settings → Integrations → API tokens.
  3. Click Create a new API token. Copy it and keep it secret.

Free tier: Apify credits your account with $5 of platform usage every month, no credit card required. Enough to test any actor meaningfully. How many results that covers depends on the actor's price per result.

Call from code

Run this actor from any language via the Apify REST API. Replace YOUR_TOKEN with your API token and adapt the input JSON to your needs.

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/santamaria-automations~hays-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{}'
// npm install apify-client
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'YOUR_TOKEN' });
const run = await client.actor('santamaria-automations/hays-scraper').call({});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);
# pip install apify-client
from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient('YOUR_TOKEN')
run = client.actor('santamaria-automations/hays-scraper').call(run_input={})
items = list(client.dataset(run['defaultDatasetId']).iterate_items())
print(items)
// dotnet add package Apify.Client
using Apify.Client;

var client = new ApifyClient("YOUR_TOKEN");
var run = await client.Actor("santamaria-automations/hays-scraper").CallAsync(new { });
var items = await client.Dataset(run.DefaultDatasetId).ListItemsAsync();
// Maven: com.apify:apify-client
import com.apify.client.ApifyClient;

ApifyClient client = new ApifyClient("YOUR_TOKEN");
ActorRun run = client.actor("santamaria-automations/hays-scraper").call(Map.of());
List<Map<String,Object>> items = client.dataset(run.getDefaultDatasetId()).listItems();

Use with AI agents (MCP)

This actor is available on the Apify MCP server, so you can drive it from any MCP-compatible AI client - Claude Desktop, Claude.ai, Cursor, VS Code, LangChain, LlamaIndex, or a custom agent - without writing any code.

https://mcp.apify.com?tools=santamaria-automations/hays-scraper

Example prompt once connected:

"Use <code>hays-scraper</code> to run a scrape on my target list and give me the results as a table."

Clients that support dynamic tool discovery (Claude.ai, VS Code) receive the full input schema automatically via add-actor.

Use with no-code platforms

Trigger this actor from your favorite automation tool. Every platform below can call the Apify API in a few clicks - no code required.

  1. Add the n8n Apify node (installed by default on n8n Cloud; on self-hosted install @apify/n8n-nodes-apify).
  2. Set Actor to santamaria-automations/hays-scraper.
  3. Choose operation Run Actor and get dataset, paste your input JSON, and connect a downstream node (Google Sheets, Postgres, webhook, ...).
  1. Create a new Zap with any trigger.
  2. Add a Webhooks by Zapier POST action to https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/santamaria-automations~hays-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN.
  3. Body: your input JSON. Content-Type: application/json.
  1. Create a new scenario.
  2. Add an HTTP module: URL https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/santamaria-automations~hays-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN, method POST, body raw JSON.
  3. Parse the response with a JSON module to iterate items downstream.
  1. Create a new workflow.
  2. Add an HTTP Request step: POST to https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/santamaria-automations~hays-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN.
  3. Access steps.http.$return_value in subsequent steps.
  1. Install the API Connector plugin.
  2. Add a new API: POST https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/santamaria-automations~hays-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN, body type JSON.
  3. Initialize the call with your input, then reference the response array in workflow actions.

FAQ

How much does the hays-scraper cost?

$5.00 / 1,000 detail job result, billed per result on Apify. Apify's $5/month free tier covers the first runs. No monthly subscription — you only pay for what you extract.

What fields does it return?

45 fields per result. Full field catalog is listed in the 'What you can scrape' table above — includes core identifiers, descriptive text, dates, and any category-specific data.

Is scraping this site legal?

Scraping publicly available data is generally permitted in most jurisdictions, but GDPR applies to any personal data you collect. Review your local rules and consult a lawyer for commercial use.

Do I need an API key from the source platform?

No. This actor reads public pages over HTTP with datacenter proxies. No API key, no OAuth, no rate-limit management on your side.

How fresh is the data?

Every run pulls live data at execution time. Set up a schedule (daily/hourly/weekly cron) in the Apify console to keep your dataset current automatically.

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