About Adzuna
Adzuna is an MCP server for job seekers and labor-market analysis, covering job listings across multiple countries alongside salary and hiring data.
Key features
- 01Search jobs by query and location
- 02Browse job categories
- 03View salary distributions
- 04Find top hiring companies
- 05Inspect historical and regional job data
Use cases
- 01Find jobs in a specific area
- 02Compare salary distributions
- 03Analyze regional hiring trends
MCP support
It exposes Adzuna job search, category, salary, and hiring-statistics tools to MCP clients. Connect through the Pipeworx gateway or run the local stdio MCP server.
Configuration
Remote servers need no local install. Pick your client, then copy the config or install in one click.
https://gateway.pipeworx.io/adzuna/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http pipeworx-io-adzuna https://gateway.pipeworx.io/adzuna/mcp{"mcpServers":{"pipeworx-io-adzuna":{"type":"http","url":"https://gateway.pipeworx.io/adzuna/mcp"}}}Open in Cursor{"servers":{"pipeworx-io-adzuna":{"type":"http","url":"https://gateway.pipeworx.io/adzuna/mcp"}}}Open in VS Code{"mcpServers":{"pipeworx-io-adzuna":{"type":"http","url":"https://gateway.pipeworx.io/adzuna/mcp"}}}{"mcpServers":{"pipeworx-io-adzuna":{"serverUrl":"https://gateway.pipeworx.io/adzuna/mcp"}}}Run commands in a terminal; paste JSON into the client’s MCP config and restart. Servers that need sign-in will prompt on first connect.
Tools
47| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| q | string | No | Alias for question. |
| ask | string | No | Alias for question. |
| text | string | No | Alias for question. |
| input | string | No | Alias for question. |
| packs | array | No | OPTIONAL. Restrict routing to these pack slugs (e.g. ["sec-form-d","sec-13f"]) — the router then picks only from tools in those packs. Omit for the default full-catalog routing. Slugs come from list_packs / search_packs / https://pipeworx.io/directory; unlisted or unknown slugs are ignored and named in _meta.pack_scope.ignored, and if none of them resolves the question is routed across the whole catalog with _meta.pack_scope.full_catalog:true (never an empty answer). |
| query | string | No | Alias for question. |
| prompt | string | No | Alias for question. |
| message | string | No | Alias for question. |
| question | string | Yes | Your question or request in natural language. Accepts query, q, prompt, text, input, ask, message as aliases. |
Details
From the project README@pipeworx/adzuna
Adzuna MCP — global job-board aggregator (~1.5M live jobs across 16 countries). Free tier: 250 calls/month.
Part of Pipeworx — an MCP gateway connecting AI agents to 1872+ live data sources. This is an independent, unofficial integration — not affiliated with, endorsed by, or published by the upstream provider.
Tools
search(country, what?, where?, distance?, results_per_page?, page?, salary_min?, salary_max?, full_time?, permanent?, sort?, max_days_old?)categories(country)— Adzuna's normalized job categoriessalary_histogram(country, what?, where?, location_filter?)— wage distributiontop_companies(country, what?, where?)— companies posting most jobs matching the filterhistory(country, months?, location?, category?)— historical job-volume / mean-salary time seriesregional_stats(country, location_filter?, category?)— current jobs by region
Auth
Adzuna uses two query params: app_id and app_key. Get both at https://developer.adzuna.com/.
- Platform key: gateway env
PLATFORM_ADZUNA_KEY(format<app_id>:<app_key>) - BYO:
?_apiKey=<app_id>:<app_key>
Country codes
gb (UK), us, ca, de, fr, at, nl, pl, it, es, ru, br, in, mx, nz, au, sg, za.
Data source
https://api.adzuna.com/v1/api/jobs/<country>/...
Quick Start
Add to your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, etc.):
{
"mcpServers": {
"adzuna": {
"url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/adzuna/mcp"
}
}
}
What this endpoint actually serves
tools/list at https://gateway.pipeworx.io/adzuna/mcp returns the tools in the table
above plus the shared Pipeworx meta-tools — ask_pipeworx,
discover_tools, search_within, remember/recall and the rest of the
gateway-wide set. So the tool count you see is larger than this table: a
single-pack endpoint currently lists roughly 30 shared tools alongside the
pack's own. The connection's initialize response states its exact scope, and
is the authoritative answer for a given day.
This is deliberate, not multiplexing by accident. The meta-tools are what let a
scoped connection answer a question this pack does not cover — via
ask_pipeworx, which routes across the whole catalog — without you adding a
second MCP server. There is currently no way to mount a pack endpoint without
them; if the extra schemas cost you more context than the routing is worth,
connect to the full gateway once rather than to several pack endpoints.
Or connect to the full Pipeworx gateway to get every pack's tools listed directly, instead of just this one's:
{
"mcpServers": {
"pipeworx": {
"url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/mcp"
}
}
}
Both URLs reach the same gateway and the same 1872+ data sources. The
only difference is which pack's tools are listed directly; ask_pipeworx
reaches all of them from either one.
No MCP client? Call it over HTTP
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/adzuna_search \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{"country":"gb","what":"python developer","where":"London","results_per_page":25}'
No account needed for the first calls. Inspect any tool: GET https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/adzuna_search. Find one: POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/search_packs with {"query":"..."}.
Standalone (no gateway account)
This package also runs as a local stdio MCP server — no Pipeworx account, no gateway round-trip:
{
"mcpServers": {
"adzuna": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "@pipeworx/mcp-adzuna"]
}
}
}
Or run it directly to confirm it starts:
npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-adzuna
It speaks MCP over stdin/stdout and answers initialize/tools/list/tools/call
for only this pack's tools — none of the shared meta-tools the gateway
connection above adds. Same source, same tools, no ask_pipeworx routing.
Using with ask_pipeworx
Instead of calling tools directly, you can ask questions in plain English — this works on the pack endpoint above as well as on the full gateway:
ask_pipeworx({ question: "your question about Adzuna data" })
The gateway picks the right tool and fills the arguments automatically.
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License
MIT
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