Ask HN: Sources of remote jobs for people based in UK?

4 points by startupfreak 8 years ago | 5 comments

I'm a developer and I'm about to move to the middle of nowhere. I'm looking for remote work, but most of the job boards dedicated to remote work I've found online are for companies based in the US which seem to make the implicit assumption that you're a US citizen.

Are there any remote-focussed job boards that allow you to specify the country the employer is based in, so I can limit my results to UK companies?

philip1209 8 years ago |

Moonlight supports UK developers -

https://www.moonlightwork.com

boffinism 8 years ago |

https://www.cwjobs.co.uk/jobs/remote might get you started for the UK specifically.

gain_sky 8 years ago |

Use a thing called google? Most uk job sites let you specify remote only in the search options anyway. You could really find this out in like 2min.

boffinism 8 years ago | |

No, you could find out that several UK job sites let you specify remote in 20 seconds. In the remaining 1m 40s you could find out that the number of remote jobs being advertised on the major UK jobs boards is tiny, far less than the number of remote jobs you know are out there.

So at that point you might consider whether maybe there are any specialist sites that focus on remote jobs - like the USA-specific remote-only jobs boards that occasionally get mentioned on HN, only for the UK. And you might think it would be worth asking on HN if someone could point you in the right direction... only to receive obnoxious responses like gain_sky's.

Sorry OP, not all of HN is as rude and unhelpful as 'gain_sky'

whb07 8 years ago |

Look at specific slack group’s job boards. At the python dev group, I see more UK/Germany remote job posts than US.