Web Scraping Expert | £55K–£110K/year | UK
Are you passionate about data extraction, automation, and turning unstructured information into valuable insights? Do you have hands-on experience in web crawling, scraping, and parsing complex websites and APIs? If yes, we have an exciting opportunity for you to join a dynamic team as a Web Scraping Specialist, with a competitive salary range of £55,000 to £110,000 per year based on experience and skill level.
In today’s digital economy, businesses increasingly rely on web data to fuel analytics, decision-making, product development, and competitive intelligence. As a Web Scraping Specialist, you will play a critical role in developing robust scraping solutions to collect and manage vast amounts of structured and unstructured data from websites and online platforms. This role is ideal for candidates who thrive in solving challenges related to anti-bot mechanisms, data normalization, dynamic content extraction, and efficient data storage.
About the Role
As a Web Scraping Specialist, you’ll work with a highly skilled team of developers, analysts, and data scientists. Your primary responsibility will be to build, maintain, and optimize automated data scraping pipelines to retrieve data from public and semi-structured sources. You’ll ensure the accuracy, reliability, and performance of scraping tools and deliver cleaned, normalized datasets ready for analysis or downstream applications.
You will leverage your expertise in Python (Scrapy, BeautifulSoup, Selenium, or Playwright), as well as your familiarity with HTTP protocols, browser automation, and JavaScript rendering. You will also work with cloud services and databases, ensuring that data pipelines are secure, scalable, and efficient.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and implement scalable and resilient web scraping solutions.
- Identify and resolve challenges posed by CAPTCHA, bot protection systems, and dynamic JavaScript content.
- Extract data from a wide range of websites, including e-commerce platforms, job boards, news sites, and social media.
- Clean, normalize, and structure raw data to meet business requirements.
- Monitor and maintain scraping pipelines to ensure data freshness and accuracy.
- Collaborate with data scientists and engineers to deliver actionable data insights.
- Use version control (Git), issue tracking tools, and documentation best practices.
Preferred Skills and Qualifications
- Proficiency in Python and web scraping libraries like Scrapy, BeautifulSoup, Requests, Selenium, or Playwright.
- Experience with headless browsers and rendering engines (e.g., Puppeteer).
- Knowledge of RESTful APIs and JSON/XML data formats.
- Familiarity with cloud services (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and task schedulers (e.g., Airflow, Cron).
- Understanding of data storage and querying (SQL, NoSQL, Elasticsearch).
- Ability to handle large-scale scraping jobs and data pipelines.
- Strong problem-solving and debugging skills.
- Familiarity with ethical web scraping practices and legal considerations (e.g., GDPR, robots.txt).
Why Join Us
We are a forward-thinking technology company that values innovation, transparency, and agility. As a member of our team, you’ll work in a supportive environment where your technical expertise and creativity are appreciated. We invest in your growth through training, mentorship, and access to modern tools and infrastructure.
Whether you’re scraping millions of listings from an e-commerce platform or monitoring price trends across competitors, your work will directly influence strategic business decisions and product innovations.
Career Growth and Compensation
This position offers a competitive salary between £55,000 to £110,000 per year, depending on your experience, contributions, and technical capabilities. You’ll also enjoy a flexible work environment, performance bonuses, paid training, health insurance, and opportunities for promotion into lead roles or adjacent fields such as data engineering and machine learning.
We believe in fair pay, professional development, and the opportunity to make a real impact. Whether you’re a mid-level engineer ready to take the next step or a seasoned specialist looking for a new challenge, this role offers tremendous potential for growth and long-term success.
Ideal Candidate Profile
You’re a self-motivated, detail-oriented individual with a passion for data and automation. You’re excited about solving complex technical challenges and can write clean, maintainable code. You’re aware of the latest trends in anti-scraping technology and know how to adapt quickly. If you enjoy working in a fast-paced environment and are eager to tackle meaningful projects that drive business intelligence, we want to hear from you.
How to Apply
Please submit your resume, a brief cover letter, and links to any relevant GitHub projects or portfolios. If you’ve worked on large-scale scraping projects or developed tools that demonstrate your expertise, we’d love to see them.
Let’s build smarter data systems together—apply today and shape the future of automated data collection and analysis.