What is Reed's public API?
Reed.co.uk is a UK job board that offers a public Jobseeker API. The API is free with an API key, returns current ads and is subject to Reed's usage and display terms. It covers jobs posted on reed.co.uk.
Reed's public API is suited for:
- Job seeker-facing applications that display Reed listings in real-time within their UI.
- Career guidance tools that need to show live job listings alongside other content.
- UK-focused job widgets where Reed's display terms are acceptable.
Techmap vs Reed Jobseeker API at a glance
As of . Reed Jobseeker API's figures are quoted from its public pages (see sources); Techmap's figures link to our live data.
| Techmap | Reed Jobseeker API | |
|---|---|---|
| Coverage | 250 countries & territories incl. Remote (→ Explore) | UK[1] |
| Sources | 185 sources: 120 ATS platforms, job boards, aggregators, 7 public employment offices (→ Explore) | reed.co.uk only[1] |
| Historical data & volume | 451M+ postings since January 2020 (8M new, 12M active per month) (→ Explore) | Current ads[1] |
| Duplicates | Duplicates kept and flagged (isDuplicate) - excluded with one API filter, or used to analyze where companies advertise (→ Explore) | - |
| Delivery | Jobs API & RSS API (RapidAPI), daily JSON Lines files on AWS S3 via AWS Data Exchange (→ Explore) | REST API with usage terms[1] |
| Pricing | API $1 per 1,000 job postings; feeds $400 per country & month; datasets $2,400 - $4,800 per country, one-time (→ Explore) | Free with API key[1] |
| Free tier | 1,000 postings/month (Jobs API), 300 (RSS API), free Luxembourg feed & dataset (→ Explore) | Free with API key[1] |
- Reed - Jobseeker API, retrieved September 2026.
What you should know before choosing Techmap
The API returns 10 postings per request
Correct - the Jobs API is metered per request of 10 postings, which works out at $1 per 1,000 job postings. For bulk volumes you don't page through the API at all: daily JSON Lines files per country arrive in your own S3 bucket via AWS Data Exchange, without request limits.
The API only covers the last 3 months
Correct - the API is built for fresh postings. Everything older lives in the historical archive: 451M+ postings since January 2020, sold per country as datasets in the same schema, so current and historical data join without mapping.
Duplicates are flagged, not removed
Correct - a posting with the same company, city, country and title within 3 days is kept and marked isDuplicate: true, with isDuplicateOf pointing to the first one. Add isDuplicate=false to an API query to exclude them. Keeping them is useful for analysis: they show on which boards, career pages and employment offices a company distributes its job ads - and how much it spends on them.
What you get with Techmap in return
- 250 countries & territories incl. Remote - including markets many providers skip.
- Archive since January 2020 - 451M+ postings for trend research and model training.
- First-party sources - 120 ATS platforms and 7 public employment offices next to job boards and aggregators.
- Bulk price per posting - $1 per 1,000 job postings via API, flat per-country prices for files.
- AWS Data Exchange delivery - buy through your AWS account, files land in your S3 bucket.
- Duplicates as a signal - see where a company distributes its job ads and estimate its job ad spend.
- Free Luxembourg feed and dataset - check the full schema before you spend anything.
- Data stored in the EU - all data lives in AWS eu-central-1 (Frankfurt, Germany), GDPR-compliant.
When to choose Techmap - and when Reed Jobseeker API
Choose Techmap if
- Reed plus other UK boards, ATS pages and Gov.uk Find a Job in one feed.
- 250 countries and territories.
- A historical archive since January 2020.
Choose Reed Jobseeker API instead if
- You only need reed.co.uk ads and accept Reed's display terms.
Why teams choose Techmap over Reed's API
Techmap gives you multi-source UK job data in one API - Reed plus Totaljobs, NHS Jobs, Gov.uk Find a Job and employer ATS career pages - and the same schema for 250 countries & territories.
Techmap's key advantages:
- Reed postings included: Store, analyze and display them in your own products - see current volumes per source. (→ Explore)
- Multi-source UK coverage: Totaljobs, NHS Jobs, Gov.uk Find a Job and UK ATS career pages - all in one schema.
- No display-only restrictions: Use the data for analytics, ML training, job board backfill or sales intelligence (reselling raw postings is not allowed).
- 250 countries & territories incl. Remote: Expand UK data to global context without switching providers. (→ Explore)
- Historical archive: 451M+ postings from January 2020 for multi-year UK labor market analysis.
- Bulk AWS delivery: Gzip-compressed JSON Lines files per country, updated hourly and delivered to your S3 bucket via AWS Data Exchange.
- Transparent pricing: API from $1 per 1,000 job postings, data feeds $400 per country & month; discounts for 3/12-month bundles, Country Bundle and Startup & Research on /pricing.
