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Data sources and attribution

Primary sources only: employers' own careers sites and job feeds, and the government's apprenticeship service.

We never copy from other aggregators or job boards. We read only public pages, never log in or accept click-through terms, obey robots.txt, and show facts, a short excerpt and a link back to the original advert. How each source is doing right now is on the status page; how our crawler behaves is on the bot page.

Every kind of source

  • Amazon jobs

    1 of 1 source enabled

    Amazon's public job search, limited to UK apprenticeship roles.

  • Ashby job boards

    2 of 2 sources enabled

    The employer's public Ashby job board API.

  • Avature RSS feeds

    8 of 8 sources enabled

    The employer's public Avature job feed, filtered to apprenticeship titles.

  • Capgemini careers

    1 of 1 source enabled

    Capgemini's public UK job search.

  • Curated programme calendar

    93 curated sources, read by hand (not crawled)

    Programme windows and fact files we research by hand from employers' own pages, each with its source URL, the date we read it and how (job feed, page read directly, or a search index of the employer's own site).

  • Find an apprenticeship (DfE)

    None configured yet

    The Department for Education's Display Advert API, read only when an API key is configured. Pages showing these adverts carry the Open Government Licence attribution.

  • Greenhouse job boards

    2 of 2 sources enabled

    The employer's public Greenhouse job board API.

  • IBM careers

    1 of 1 source enabled

    IBM's public careers search, limited to UK apprenticeship roles.

  • Job pages with structured data

    None configured yet

    Employer job pages that publish schema.org JobPosting data, read from the page itself.

  • Lever job boards

    1 of 1 source enabled

    The employer's public Lever postings API (UK and EU hosts).

  • Oracle Recruiting Cloud

    8 of 8 sources enabled

    The public job requisition search behind an employer's Oracle careers site.

  • Pinpoint career sites

    4 of 4 sources enabled

    The public postings feed of an employer's Pinpoint careers site.

  • SuccessFactors career sites

    12 of 12 sources enabled

    The site's allowed sitemap.xml and the individual job pages it lists (posting and closing dates from the page itself).

  • Teamtailor RSS feeds

    1 of 1 source enabled

    The employer's public Teamtailor job feed.

  • Workday career sites

    45 of 45 sources enabled

    The public job search behind an employer's Workday careers site, filtered to apprenticeship titles and UK locations; closing dates come from each job's own page.

  • Microsoft careers

    Not crawled

    Not crawled: Microsoft's careers API is disallowed by robots.txt. Its programmes come from Microsoft's own published pages instead.

  • Personio

    Not crawled

    Supported by the data model; no employer we track uses it yet.

  • Recruitee

    Not crawled

    Supported by the data model; no employer we track uses it yet.

  • SmartRecruiters

    Not crawled

    Not crawled: the API host's robots.txt disallows all bots. We would only use it with the employer's agreement.

  • SuccessFactors RSS

    Not crawled

    Not crawled: the RSS feeds are disallowed by robots.txt on every site we checked. We use the SuccessFactors sitemap instead (below).

Fact files, logos and brand colours

Employer fact files (entry requirements, application stages, salaries, timelines) are researched by hand from each employer’s own pages. Each fact file lists its sources with the date we read each one, and anything the employer has not published stays empty rather than guessed.

Logos and brand colours appear only where the employer publishes them for this kind of use, on its own brand or press pages; we record where each came from. Otherwise we show the employer’s name in text.

Open Government Licence

Vacancy data from the Department for Education’s Find an apprenticeship service: Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Apprentice Atlas is not endorsed by the Department for Education and uses no government branding.

Open data

Everything on the calendar (employers, programmes, application windows with their evidence, and the openings we observed) is free to download and reuse as one JSON file, rebuilt daily, from the open data page.

Corrections and opt-out

Employers can ask us to correct or remove anything, or to stop reading their site, on the takedown page.