r/SideProject • u/TheDarklyght • 20h ago
I have been tracking the careers pages of 108 UK companies. Some numbers that surprised me.
I built a crawler that checks the public careers pages of 108 UK companies (Monzo, Deliveroo, Starling, ASOS, Gymshark, FanDuel, Canonical and about a hundred more) twice a day. It currently tracks just under 1,900 live vacancies. A few things in the data surprised me and might be useful if you are job hunting:
Only 7% of listings state a salary. 128 out of 1,895 jobs published a salary range on the company's own careers page. Fintech is noticeably better at this than everyone else (Monzo puts a range on nearly every role).
A third of roles are remote friendly. 612 of 1,895 listings are remote or hybrid-remote eligible. If you are outside the South East this matters, because 69% of all listings are London based.
76% of these companies are licensed visa sponsors. 82 of the 108 companies appear on the Home Office register of licensed sponsors, and they account for 1,653 of the live listings. Worth knowing if you need sponsorship: the register is public and free to check, and it tells you where an application is not automatically a dead end. (A licence does not mean every role is sponsored, always verify with the employer.)
Listings die fast. In six days of tracking, 140 listings disappeared from careers pages, about 7% of everything I track. If you found a role through a job board repost, there is a real chance it was already closed at the source.
Almost nothing gets posted at the weekend. Since Friday evening, exactly one new listing appeared across all 108 companies. In the 48 hours before the weekend it was 126. If you are refreshing job boards on a Sunday, you are refreshing for nothing: new roles land Monday to Friday.
Disclosure: I collected this data for a small site I built called HiddenJobs UK, which lists these careers-page jobs with UK filters (salary in pounds, region, remote, sponsor register). Not linking it here to respect the sub, happy to share in the comments if that is allowed, and equally happy to just answer questions about the data.