Comprehensive labor market data for your community
Developer is an easy-to-use platform that provides an unparalleled combination of labor market insights and data analysis for economic and workforce development professionals.
Understand your market
Unlock unparalleled insights and serve your industries better with:
Location-specific metrics
Employment, jobs, & demographics
Wage data & growth trends
Industry clusters & regional businesses
Unlock opportunities
Our detailed, standardized occupation data allows you to accurately compare regions and discover:
Job & industry distribution by occupation
Growth & wage trajectories
Education & talent pipelines
Employee demographics
Skills transferability & much more
Understand employer demand
With 100s of millions of current unique job postings—sorted, normalized, and filtered—you can research:
Level & intensity of demand
Current & projected trends
Job titles, skills, & qualifications companies are seeking
Advertised salaries
Feeder jobs, next-step jobs, & career pathways
Regional data, comparisons, & much more
Find the right talent
Identify and understand the available talent with data gathered from 100M+ worker profiles:
Top locations for targeted recruiting
Top schools and programs
Top skills and qualifications
Top companies, industries, and job titles
An easy-to-filter database of unique profiles
Highlight your region's advantages
From national overviews to local insights, our regional data gives you:
Downloadable economy overview reports for your selected regions
Community indicators, including social, economic, and housing characteristics
Population demographics, including age, gender, and race/ethnicity
Comparisons of region-specific industry & occupation data
Commuting and migration maps
Data Differentiators
Lightcast Occupation Taxonomy (LOT)
LOT provides a granular, contextual framework derived from real-world job postings, employee profiles, and official government statistics that brings consistency and structure to workforce data. The LOT is the standard for understanding occupations across the globe, uses Lightcast's proprietary classification system of four different levels: career areas | occupation groups | occupations | specialized occupations.
Career Pathways & Other Rich Skills Insights
Our enriched data can identify overlapping skills in different jobs and illuminate new sources of talent and new career opportunities for jobseekers. Instead of working within specific industries and conventional career progressions, our career pathways model accounts for how skills can be applied across diverse roles.
Real-time Demand & Local Precision
Our real-time job postings data shows who is driving demand in your region and includes month-to-month and past-30-day trends. Our proprietary modeling enables labor market analysis for highly precise geographies not available from government sources.
Explore our range of options and get a solution tailored to your budget.
Other solutions
Gazelle
Identify, attract, and support fast-growing business using Gazelle's AI-powered analysis of 10M+ companies to pinpoint growth potential and generate a customized list for your region.
eIMPACT
Tell your story with actionable workforce data, while we host, maintain, and update your embeddable custom dashboard on your website.
Custom Portals
Boost your industry's talent pool and guide jobseekers with custom-built data portals—all from a foundation of Lightcast labor market data.
Ready to build a future-ready workforce and a stronger economy for your community?
Find the comprehensive labor market data and insights you need in Lightcast’s Developer platform.
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