Who is Oxylabs optimal for?
Oxylabs is a web scraping infrastructure platform with 177M+ proxies, a Jobs Scraper API targeting Indeed and Glassdoor, and job datasets in their marketplace. Their bulk scraping (5000 URLs per batch), Cron scheduling, and delivery to S3, GCS, and Azure make them popular with enterprise data engineering teams building custom pipelines across multiple data types.
Use it if:
- Your team has dedicated data engineers to build, monitor, and maintain web scraping pipelines long-term.
- You need scraping infrastructure across many verticals - e-commerce, social media, jobs - not jobs only.
- Maximum control over parsing logic, update schedules, and raw data structure is more important than time-to-value.
- Your organisation already has a scraping team and Oxylabs' enterprise contracts are feasible.
- GCS or Azure delivery is required and AWS is not your primary cloud.
When teams outgrow Oxylabs for job data
For teams that need job posting data specifically - without the engineering overhead of building a scraping pipeline - Oxylabs' infrastructure-as-a-product model introduces significant ongoing cost and maintenance burden.
Typical challenges are:
- Raw output requires substantial deduplication, normalisation, and enrichment - you build the data product from scratch.
- Scrapers break when Indeed, Glassdoor, or LinkedIn update their site structure - maintenance never stops.
- No pre-built historical archive - you collect going forward only, starting from your subscription date.
- Enterprise pricing with minimum contracts and no public free tier for job-specific data products.
- Primarily focused on scraping major job boards - coverage of company ATS career pages, government employment portals, and regional job boards requires building and maintaining additional scrapers.
Techmap vs Oxylabs: Feature Comparison
| Feature | Techmap | Oxylabs |
|---|---|---|
| Countries covered | 250 countries & territories (→ Explore) | Limited to scraped platforms |
| New job postings/month | 8.2M structured & enriched (→ Explore) | Depends on your scraping budget |
| Historical data | 405M+ from January 2020 | None pre-built (scrape forward only) |
| Data quality | Structured, normalised, enriched | Raw - DIY normalisation required |
| Data formats | JSON, CSV, XML, RSS/ATOM, Parquet | JSON, CSV |
| Delivery options | API, AWS S3, AWS Data Exchange | S3, GCS, Azure, FTP |
| Engineering overhead | Low - plug and query | High - scraper + pipeline management |
| Company ATS career pages | Yes (proprietary crawlers) | No (Indeed + Glassdoor focus) |
| Free tier | Yes (1k jobs/month on RapidAPI) | No public free tier |
Reasons to Choose Techmap's Job Data
Techmap is purpose-built for job posting data - delivering 8.2M structured, enriched postings per month from 250 countries, with zero scraping overhead. Whether you're backfilling a job board or extracting hiring signals for sales intelligence, Techmap gives you immediate value with predictable costs.
Why teams choose Techmap:
- Zero engineering overhead: No scrapers to build, no proxies to rotate, no HTML to parse - data is ready to use.
- 125+ sources: Company ATS pages, government portals, regional boards, and aggregators - comprehensive global coverage.
- Historical archive included: 405M+ postings from January 2020 available immediately as Parquet or CSV.
- Free tier to start: 1k jobs/month free on RapidAPI - no minimum contract, no sales call.
- Predictable pricing: Less than $1 per 1000 jobs via API - no surprise usage bills.
- GDPR-compliant: EU-based data storage with full compliance documentation.
- Volume and Startup discounts: Discounts available for high-volume usage and qualifying Startups.
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