Lightcast - Job Postings (UK)

(The limited trial contains a subset of the full data product and is updated at a slower rate.)

Lightcast’s UK Job Postings data offers a detailed and dynamic view of the labor market, with updates every day and deep historical coverage. Whether you're analysing hiring trends, exploring workforce needs, or forecasting skills demand, this dataset empowers you to make smarter, data-driven decisions.

Sourced from both job boards and company career sites, our data captures postings from organizations of all sizes, ensuring a comprehensive and representative picture of employer demand across the UK.

Questions answered by this dataset:

- What skills are employers seeking for roles like computer programmers?
- Which companies in London are hiring the most nurses?
- What skills are most often associated with a given job title?
- Has demand for the skill "Python" increased or decreased in the past six months?
- How long does the average job posting for a web developer stay open in Liverpool?

Includes the below secure views:

- UK.POSTINGS: Record-level access to UK job postings found across the web that we’ve collected, processed, and classified through Lightcast’s proprietary posting methodology.
- UK.POSTINGS_META: Metadata for the various taxonomies and releases used within the POSTINGS and POSTINGS_SKILL tables.
- UK.POSTINGS_SKILLS: A record-level view of all of the skills found within individual postings alongside skill taxonomical info tagged by Lightcast classifiers and extractors.

​​For further information regarding Lightcast Job Postings, please visit [Job Posting Analytics (JPA) Methodology](https://kb.lightcast.io/en/articles/6957446-job-posting-analytics-jpa-methodology).