Open data

• employers

  Every employer we list, with the curated fact file where we have one.

  slug, name, aliases, sector, website_url, careers_url, description, url, ogl, fact_file, updated_at

• programmes

  Each recurring scheme at an employer.

  slug, employer_slug, name, kind, level_min, level_max, route, locations, audience, apply_url, requires_cv, cover_letter, written_answers, process, is_active, url, updated_at

• windows

  One application window per programme per intake year, with the evidence for its dates.

  programme_slug, cycle_year, opens_at, closes_at, date_status, is_rolling, source, evidence_method, evidence, source_url, apply_url, observed_first_seen_at, observed_last_seen_at, ogl, updated_at

• opening_history

  Openings and closings our crawler saw happen: a matching vacancy went live, or the last one closed.

  programme_slug, cycle_year, event (opened or closed), date, observed_at

Records link by slug: a window’s programme_slug is a programme’s slug, a programme’s employer_slug an employer’s.

Every window says how certain its dates are and where they came from, the same way the calendar does:

• date_status: confirmed (an exact day the employer published), estimated (month-level or hedged wording, stored as the first or last day of the month) or unknown (no dates).
• source: manual (read from the employer’s page by a person), observed (our crawler saw a matching vacancy go live) or predicted.
• evidence_method, evidence and source_url: how the page was read (ats_api, fetched or search_index, which is provisional), a one-line quote, and the page itself.

Forecasts (“usually opens around”) are not in the file: they are worked out from the windows, so you can repeat them.

• The structure of the export and our compilation are under the MIT licence, like the code. Credit “Apprentice Atlas” with a link back.
• Records marked "ogl": true come partly from the Department for Education’s Find an apprenticeship service: Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (OGL v3.0). Keep that line when you reuse them.
• Employer facts cite the employer’s own page they came from: each window’s source_url, and in a fact file each programme’s source_url and the sources list with the date each page was read. Check the employer’s page before relying on a date.
• Employer names belong to their owners; logos are not included. We are not affiliated with any employer listed, the DfE or GOV.UK.

No personal data: no accounts, saved roles, alerts or tracker cards, and nothing about the people behind a vacancy (we drop recruiter names, emails and phone numbers when we read a feed). Individual vacancies are left out too; they change by the hour and belong to the sites that advertise them, so link to them from the finder or its feeds instead. An employer that has opted out is removed from the file as from the site (see takedown).

For example, every confirmed opening for the next intake, with its evidence:

curl -sL https://apprenticeships.untraceable.dev/data/export.json \
  | jq '.windows[] | select(.date_status == "confirmed" and .opens_at != null)
        | {programme_slug, opens_at, closes_at, source_url}'

Please fetch it at most once a day. Found a wrong date? The open source page says how to correct it, with a primary source.