Global Job Postings

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Description

This dataset contains Global job postings. Various job posting facets and metrics are available for aggregate counts of job postings. These counts may be filtered, ranked, and sorted by company, skills, region, timeframe, occupation, and more. Data is available back to January 2019, and is updated monthly.

Use Cases

Questions answered by this dataset:

• Which skills are employers seeking for computer programmers?
• Which companies in Germany are hiring the most nurses?
• What skills are most often associated with a given occupation?
• Has demand increased or decreased for the skill "JavaScript (Programming Language)" in the last 6 months?
• How long does the average job posting for a web developer stay up in Paris?

Metrics

• Unique postings: the same job may be posted on multiple websites; this metric removes duplicates across sources
• Unique companies: the number of unique companies represented in your filtered set of job postings
• Median posting duration: the median duration in days that job postings in your filtered set were online

Filters

• Company
• Location (nation, market)
• Occupation (Lightcast's Global Occupations)
• Skills
• Timeframe (year/month)