Top companies

This endpoint returns a "leaderboard" of the top five employers by number of vacancies. You can filter for specific locations and/or job titles.

For all the technical details, including a complete parameter listing and a playground to make test calls, please visit the jobs/{country}/top_companies documentation.

Example: Top employers for "Cook" jobs in the UK

The aim is to get the top employers for Cook jobs in the whole of UK:

http://api.adzuna.com/v1/api/jobs/gb/top_companies?app_id={YOUR API ID}&app_key={YOUR API KEY}&what=cook&content-type=application/json

The response object contains a leaderboard array of the 5 top employers:

{
  "__CLASS__": "Adzuna::API::Response::TopCompanies",
  "leaderboard": [
    {
      "__CLASS__": "Adzuna::API::Response::Company",
      "count": 102,
      "canonical_name": "Carewatch Care Services",
      "average_salary": 14942
    },
    {
      "__CLASS__": "Adzuna::API::Response::Company",
      "count": 84,
      "canonical_name": "Compass Group",
      "average_salary": 5135
    },
    {
      "__CLASS__": "Adzuna::API::Response::Company",
      "count": 28,
      "canonical_name": "Carluccio's",
      "average_salary": 22929
    },
    {
      "__CLASS__": "Adzuna::API::Response::Company",
      "count": 26,
      "canonical_name": "Marriott",
      "average_salary": 17229
    },
    {
      "__CLASS__": "Adzuna::API::Response::Company",
      "count": 24,
      "canonical_name": "Care UK",
      "average_salary": 13676
    }
  ]
}

Adzuna plots the data in a short top companies bar chart:

view this example on adzuna.co.uk