Lightcast Skills & Labor Market Intelligence

Lightcast is a labor market intelligence company with more than 25 years of experience and offices in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Italy, New Zealand and India; its press releases are datelined Moscow, Idaho. It serves universities and colleges, employers and public agencies that need reliable data on jobs, skills and wages to design programs, plan workforces and set policy.

Lightcast aggregates job postings, worker profiles and official statistics into a skills and occupation taxonomy, now covering 165+ countries and 99% of world GDP. Users access it through the Analyst platform (Analyst, Talent Analyst, Developer), Career Coach, Talent Transform, APIs and data shares. Work Intelligence links 1,800+ occupations, 34,000+ skills and 36,000+ task statements, ASK answers workforce questions in natural language, and an MCP server lets AI assistants query Lightcast data directly.

• Analyst platform: labor market, talent and program analytics for education, employers and government.
• Skills taxonomy: open skills categories linked to occupations and job postings.
• Work Intelligence: 1,800+ occupations, 34,000+ skills and 36,000+ task statements.
• Global data: job postings and 100M+ profiles across 165+ countries.
• ASK and MCP: natural-language questions and direct data access for AI assistants.
• Career Coach and Talent Transform: career exploration and governance of job, task and skill data.

A Vietnamese university can analyse international job postings to design new programs in AI or semiconductors. An investor planning a factory can compare talent availability and wages across locations. A provincial labor department can identify skills gaps to target vocational training.

Gives education providers evidence of employer demand to design or update programs and career pathways. Helps employers benchmark wages, locate talent pools and plan reskilling with task-level data. Supports public agencies with workforce and skills-gap analysis. Grounds AI answers in sourced data: in Lightcast's own test, answer-quality scores rose from 57 to 82 out of 100 when models used its data.

Governments, universities and employers are aligning training with real labor market demand as AI changes job content. In Vietnam, universities and vocational schools are under pressure to match programs to employer needs, and provincial authorities plan workforce development, creating demand for skills and job-posting data at national and international level.

Lightcast has 25+ years of experience and offices in the US, UK, Canada, Italy, New Zealand and India. Holds ISO certification and complies with GDPR, CCPA and TX-RAMP. Data is delivered through APIs, data shares and the Analyst platform; in March 2026 coverage expanded from 41 to 165+ countries.