Skills in Demand from Job Postings
InfoTrie's skills-in-demand dataset ranks the 100 skills that job postings ask for most, across all postings and within each SOC 2018 occupation group, with how many postings and employers ask for each and their share of the postings whose skills were read. Skills are read from the posting text of employers' own career sites. A skill is published only when it rests on at least 10 postings from at least 3 employers, none above half of them.
Status: In rollout — available on request
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Key facts
| Grain | One row per skill and group (all postings, or a SOC 2018 major group), the top 100 |
|---|---|
| Measures | Postings and employers asking for the skill, share of the group's postings with skills read, rank |
| Disclosure rule | At least 10 postings from at least 3 employers, none above 50 % |
| Frequency | One edition per day |
| Availability | Editions fill once skill extraction from the posting text is switched on |
| Delivery | InfoTrie console datasets (CSV editions) and the BI feed, on job postings plans |
Sources
- InfoTrie job postings, from employers' own career sites and applicant-tracking systems
Data dictionary
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
day | date | Delivery day |
key | string | soc_code:skill, unique per row |
group_level / soc_code / soc_title | string | all or soc_major; ALL or the SOC 2018 major group; its title |
skill | string | The skill, case-folded |
postings / employers | int64 | Postings in the group asking for it, and distinct companies among them |
extracted_postings | int64 | Postings in the group whose skills were read: the denominator |
share | float64 | postings over extracted_postings |
rank | int64 | Rank in the group, 1 = most asked for |
Use cases
- Training and curricula. Align courses with the skills employers ask for in each occupation.
- Workforce planning. See which skills are most requested for the roles you hire.
- Labour-market research. Compare skill demand across occupation groups.
Delivery
- InfoTrie console: one edition per day as CSV, its rows and quality status, on job postings plans
- BI feed: OData v4 for Power BI, Excel and Tableau; JSON or CSV pages for Qlik, Google Sheets and Looker Studio
Frequently asked questions
How are skills read?
From each posting's text, by a language model, then case-folded; the share is measured over the postings whose skills were read, not all postings.
Why are some skills missing from a group?
A skill is left out unless it rests on at least 10 postings from at least 3 employers, none above half of them.
See also
- Talent Forensics — the data pillar this dataset belongs to
- Job Postings from Company Career Sites
- Salary Benchmarks from Job Postings
- Competitor Hiring by Occupation
- BI connectors — API documentation