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Using the Most Trusted, Comprehensive Labour Market Analytics


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Your Mission and Our Insight
Making decisions relating to your local economy is hard if you don't have confidence in the insight you’re basing those decisions on. Our aim is to give you both certainty and peace of mind that the decisions your organisation takes to fulfil your mission are based on the best and most appropriately detailed local Labour Market Insight available.






Why Work With Lightcast?
In a word: Insight
We’re not interested in just being another data provider. What we want is to offer you the kind of insight that will genuinely help your organisation better understand your local labour market, so that you can make both strategic and tactical decisions that will make a huge difference to the lives of the people your organisation affects.
To find out more about what makes our insight special, how we deliver it, and how it can help your organisation, get in touch.
What Makes Us Uniquely Positioned to Help Your Organisation?
By joining the hundreds of organisations across the UK and globally who have turned to us for help in solving their labour market challenges, you’ll benefit from our expertise in three key areas, which together form a package we are confident no other labour market data company can offer you:
Our Data
With over two decades experience developing and enriching both structural Labour Market Insight and Job Posting Analytics, we are confident we can offer you a dataset describing local, regional and national labour markets that is unparalleled in its breadth and depth.
Our Products
Whilst our data is the engine of all we do, we deliver it in a variety of ways according to needs and budgets, including a variety of intuitive software platforms, direct data access through APIs and Snowflake, as well as consulting reports answering more complex labour market queries.
Our Service
Along with the quality of our data and our products, we are passionate about giving you the best possible customer service, which we offer by employing a team of sector experts to onboard, train and support you and help you get maximum value from your investment with us.
What makes us uniquely positioned to help your organisation?
Hundreds of organisations across the UK and globally turn to us for help solving labour market challenges. Our data is the engine, delivered your way, and backed by a team that makes sure you get value from it.
Our Data
Two decades developing structural labour market insight and job posting analytics - a dataset unparalleled in breadth and depth, covering local, regional and national markets.
Applied research
For your more complex labour market questions, our economists and analysts build consulting reports tailored to the specific challenges your organisation is trying to solve.
Software, APIs and Data Shares
Get instant access through our market leading software platforms, or choose the flexibility of API and data share integrations built to plug straight into your own tools and CRM.
Consulting
A team of sector experts onboards, trains and supports you, so you get maximum value from your investment in our data and products.
Check out our 7 point customer pledge to see how we will provide ongoing support to ensure you get the most out of our solutions.
By partnering with us you will...
Be able to make business decisions based on the best local insight.
Avoid making bad decisions based on a lack of good evidence.
Establish yourselves as an even more key player in your local economy.
Which Sector Are You in?
We deliver our data across many different markets. Explore how we can help solve your organisation's challenges.
Education
Education providers are using our data in many ways including aligning their courses to industry needs, engaging with employers, improving employment outcomes, and marketing their courses.
Government
Organisations involved in economic development are using our data to better understand their labour market, identify regional economic strengths, assess skills, and evaluate employer demand.
Enterprise
Employers and staffing companies are using our data to help understand talent markets, so that they can build a strategy that unlocks their full potential, setting them apart from competitors.