Workforce Insights To Drive Smart Decisions
With world's most extensive database on job postings, government data, and worker profiles, Lightcast delivers clear, actionable intelligence for enterprise, education, and the public sector.
An Unparalleled View of the Labor Market
Our labor market intelligence goes beyond just data collection. With over two decades of expertise, we map the intricate connections between skills, jobs, and workforce trends—showing you insights others can't even see.
How it works
Comprehensive Data Collection
We aggregate data from 160,000+ sources, including job postings, government reports, skills databases, compensation records, and professional profiles.
Intelligent Data Processing
Our expert team and AI tools clean, categorize, and extract meaningful patterns from these billions of data points, turning raw information into precise, actionable intelligence.
Insight Where You Want It, When You Need It
Access our data through software, consulting, APIs, cloud storage, or direct warehouse integration—with ongoing support to help you maximize every insight.
Comprehensive Data Collection
We aggregate data from 160,000+ sources, including job postings, government reports, skills databases, compensation records, and professional profiles.
Intelligent Data Processing
Our expert team and AI tools clean, categorize, and extract meaningful patterns from these billions of data points, turning raw information into precise, actionable intelligence.
Insight Where You Want It, When You Need It
Access our data through software, consulting, APIs, cloud storage, or direct warehouse integration—with ongoing support to help you maximize every insight.
- Skills
Skills are the basic unit and shared language of the labor market. Identifying the skills required to a job enables clear understanding of the role—much more than a job title on its own can. Our tools identify skills that workers have and employers want, classified according to the Lightcast Open Skills Library, so that you can articulate and understand your exact need and how to meet it.
- Job Posting Analytics
For over two decades, Lightcast has been a pioneer in big-data analysis of job postings from all over the internet, and this is what sets us apart. Our tools collect raw data on postings from more than 160,000 online sources, then synthesize and interpret those findings to provide meaningful insight in near real time. Job posting analytics can identify supply and demand for workers, skills, and jobs all over the world, as well as important contextual details like compensation trends.
- Government Labor Market Data, Decoded
Government sources all over the world publish their own research and statistics on compensation, industries, occupations, education, and demographics for their populations. We clean, expand, and connect these insights, making them more actionable and easier to understand across different regions and industries. This includes using the Lightcast Occupation Taxonomy to enable clear, standardized comparisons all over the world.
- Social Profile Data
When someone posts their resume on the internet or builds an online profile with their career information, they create a record of how workers describe their own experience. We aggregate anonymous data from millions of online professional profiles, adding another layer of insight into workforce skills, career paths, and talent availability.
Global in Scope
Lightcast solutions can solve problems almost anywhere you can imagine. Our database has information on over 150 countries for reference and consulting, while our global software products come ready with data on 36.
Countries use all kinds of different names and definitions to understand their own labor markets, so we solve this disparity by using our own taxonomy that unifies titles between countries and helps everyone speak the same language.
Having this broad view helps you compare markets across borders, determine where your company might expand, and understand the local skills landscape all over the world.
Explore Our Knowledge Base
Take A Closer LookAn Atlas of Occupations and Skills
The proprietary Lightcast Occupation Taxonomy covers nearly 2,000 occupations and over 30,000 skills, allowing us to make apples-to-apples comparisons between roles, whether they’re across occupations or across nations.
How Customers Use It
The Lightcast Skills Taxonomy creates a common language for the world of work, helping connect employers, education institutions, communities, and individuals. Colleges and universities can use Lightcast Skills to design and market work-relevant programs that help students communicate their skills to potential employers. The public sector can use skills to describe the talent that businesses need, the abilities that local workers have, and any gaps between the two.
Our free Open Skills tools use this data to optimize resumes and job postings, helping match skills to occupations and workers to jobs.
Data Delivered to Fit Your Workflow
All Lightcast data is available through our software platforms, consulting services, and data delivery mechanisms, which include APIs, cloud storage and SFTP, and data warehouses.
API
Embed data directly into your web applications, products, or custom dashboards with APIs. They enable immediate data access, synchronization, and real-time operations.
Cloud Storage and SFTP
If you have a data platform like Amazon S3, Google Cloud, or Azure, we share data directly into your cloud environment or over SFTP, making data files readily available for ingestion.
Data Warehouse
If you want record-level data and use a cloud data warehouse like Snowflake, Google BigQuery, or Databricks, access to data is instant, without needing to manage ingestion pipelines.
Lightcast Data Powers Practical Decisions
Enterprises
can plan talent strategy, train their workforces, and find workers in a dynamic labor market.
Educators
can ensure the skills they teach are in demand and will launch graduates into satisfying careers.
The public sector
can create economic development strategies and guide job training programs.
