Trusted Talent and Skills Insights
With trusted workforce and skills insights, we deliver clarity so you can manage talent with confidence.
Build A Workforce Ready For What’s Next.
Lightcast helps HR, talent, and workforce strategy leaders understand the labor market around them, so they can hire smarter, plan with confidence, and build a workforce ready for change.
Our global approach offers the world’s most comprehensive collection of labor intelligence, so you can make precise, data-driven decisions no matter where you operate. Our data covers over 165 countries, representing over 99% of global GDP.
The talent market is anything but predictable. But with Lightcast, you have the tools you need to forecast future needs and make confident, informed decisions.
What’s Possible With Lightcast
Gain a Competitive Recruiting Advantage
Access real-time market data and talent intelligence to outpace competition
Build a Skills-Based Organization
Place skills at the heart of talent strategies
Win Talent with Competitive Salaries
Identify and track competitive wages to ensure market alignment
Achieve Diversity Goals
Benchmark against external talent data to set realistic diversity goals
Find The Right Markets
Understand where talent and skills are located in order to prioritize and support business growth
Future-Proof Your Workforce
Access data-backed insights to identify talent gaps and plan for future needs
Understand Global Labor Markets Better
Market data and talent intelligence across 160+ countries
Get An Edge On Staffing
Grow your business, qualify reqs, and maximize bill rates
Identify Where Talent & Skills Are Located
Understand which talent markets to prioritise and support business growth
Fault Lines
Massive disruption is underway, and none of the old rules apply. As geopolitical disruption, AI transformation, and labor shortages intersect and fracture the existing landscape, they are creating challenges no single generation has ever faced. See what’s ahead for your industry and the global market—and what you can do to prepare.
Start Your Skills Journey
Lightcast is the global leader and universal standard in skills. With a skills-first approach, you can make better talent decisions, understand if you’re ahead or behind the market, and forecast future needs with confidence.
Our Data: Comprehensive. Contextualized. Actionable.
With the world’s most comprehensive labor market database—including over 3 billion job postings, 1.2 billion career profiles, and over 100 government sources—Lightcast delivers unparalleled insight into skills, jobs, businesses, professional profiles, and workforce trends across 165 countries.
Learn More About Lightcast Data3 billion
Job postings
6.3 million
companies
34,000
Skills
242 million
Salary observations
1.2 billion
careers profiles
165
countries
17
languages
1800+
Unique occupations
“Lightcast’s database of more than one billion job postings and career profiles covers more than 99% of the workforce. It’s astounding what they do.”
Solutions For Every Talent Challenge
Talent Analyst
Find the talent you need with complete labor market data in one platform. Talent Analyst helps you understand talent supply, job postings, compensation, demographics, and competitive demand so you can recruit and plan with confidence.
Talent Transform
Build a skills-based organization with a clearer view of your roles, workforce, and future needs. Talent Transform helps you store, translate, and customize job architecture so you can align talent strategy to business goals.
Professional Services
Get expert answers to your most complex workforce questions. Our economists, data scientists, and talent experts provide custom research on workforce planning, skills gaps, location strategy, compensation, talent supply, and labor market risk.
Data Shares
Bring Lightcast data into your data environment. Data Shares deliver reliable labor market intelligence through cloud storage, SFTP, and data warehouse integrations so your teams can analyze, model, and activate workforce insights at scale.
Beyond The Buzz
AI is changing work far beyond traditional tech roles, and every function is moving at a different pace. Beyond The Buzz helps enterprise leaders identify the AI skills that matter most, understand where demand is growing, and build workforce strategies grounded in real employer needs.