Analyst
The UK's number one labour market research platform, giving you unrivalled insights on local labour markets.
What is Analyst?
Analyst is a highly intuitive tool that uses Lightcast's unparalelled labour market datasets to give you answers to critical questions relating to jobs, industries and skills in your region. Whether you’re an education provider looking to understand how the skills you teach relate to workforce skills demand; an economic development agency seeking to understand regional employer skills needs; or an organisation that simply needs to take a data-driven approach to labour market-related investments and interventions, Analyst is for you.
What does Analyst offer you?
Analyst gives you access to granular labour market data for your region of interest, to help you answer the following sorts of questions - and many more:
✓ How many jobs do our local sectors employ?
✓ What types of jobs are they?
✓ Which sectors give our area an advantage?
✓ Who are the employers in each sector?
✓ What are the top occupations in our location?
✓ Which jobs are growing the most?
✓ What is the median salary for specific jobs?
✓ What skills are required for these jobs?
✓ Which skills are most in-demand in our area?
✓ Which are growing and declining fastest?
✓ What are the emerging skills in our area?
✓ What skills are specific employers seeking?
See Analyst in action
Click on the video to watch a short demo of Analyst in action. If you like what you see, get in touch to talk about how you can get a subscription for your organisation.
“I can’t recommend Lightcast’s Analyst data platform enough. The data you get at the local level is above and beyond what combined authorities, industrial, LEP and LSIP strategies will give you. Lightcast data provides absolute frontline information about the education attainment of its community, industry, occupation, and skills trends, enabling us to design a curriculum that is really on point.”
5 major use cases
The vast amount of data in Analyst, plus the combination of structural labour market insights and job posting analytics, means it has multiple use cases for different organisations. Below are five major use cases, and in the sector underneath that you'll find Customer Success Story relating to each of these:
Economic developers can understand their area's sector strengths, job trends and projections, and emerging skills dynamics, providing a robust, data-driven foundation upon which to build a solid growth strategy.
Education providers can understand the connection between the skills they teach in their courses and the skills requested by employers, so equipping them to better align the education they provide with the world of work.
Organisations can identify demand for common, specialised and software skills at a highly granular level in their area, putting them in a far better position to be able to fill skills gaps and address demand for emerging skills.
Universities and colleges can embed labour market data across their institution, using it to empower students with an in-depth understanding of potential career pathways, so paving the way for better employment outcomes.
Organisations can understand what makes their local labour market tick, so they can implement the kinds of changes relating to jobs and skills that are genuinely likley to bring true prosperity to their community.
Using Analyst to drive economic growth
HEY LEP wanted to undertake a skills analysis of its local labour market, but found out that sourcing a reliable, up-to-date dataset was a huge challenge. Find out how Analyst has given them a single source of trustworthy labour market data, which they've used to drive economic growth and funding bids.
Using Analyst to align education to work
The University of Derby wanted to review its existing courses and introduce new courses to its portfolio that were in line with employer skills demands, boosting employability for its students. Find out how they have used Analyst to leverage data that matches skills demands with course specifications.
Using Analyst to identify skills needs
As one of the UK's leading online and skills training providers, The Skills Network needed to understand employer skills' trends in order to better match the courses it delivers to the business community it serves. See how they've used Analyst in a number of initiatives to align with local skills needs.
Using Analyst to boost student employability
The University of Huddersfield wanted to better understand the labour market context their students would go into after graduation. Check out how they used Analyst initially to support course development, and how they have since embedded it across the institution to empower positive transformation.
Using Analyst to support local communities
SCL Education Group supports local communities and industries through the creation of local ‘Aspirational Community Hubs’. Find out how they used Analyst to identify the common and specialised skills local organisations were seeking, which they could then include in their curriculum.
“At the University of Huddersfield, we subscribe to Lightcast data as part of a strong partnership with the organisation which is helping us to innovate in the use of the most powerful labour market data.”
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