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Historical Occupation Trends API Guide

Historical Occupation Trends API offers long-range labour market insights by tracking how specific occupations have changed in demand over time.

It enables workforce, strategy, and recruiting teams to align plans with evolving market dynamics across countries and years.

Whether you’re conducting supply-demand analysis, workforce planning, or labour market storytelling, this API offers a foundational layer of macro insight.

Who is this API for?

This API is ideal for strategic teams that need to monitor long-term occupation trends and workforce evolution. In particular:

  • People Analyst – comparing trends across roles to advise stakeholders on changes in market demand

  • People Strategist – exploring the rise or decline of occupations for workforce transformation efforts

  • Workforce Planner – integrating long-term trends into planning models, talent strategies, or location analysis

  • Talent Recruiter – identifying roles with rising relevance or early signs of decline for proactive sourcing

Goals this API helps you achieve

The Historical Occupation Trends API supports use cases related to:

  • Explore workforce market trends at both national and occupational levels

  • Understand demand change over time — when, where, and how an occupation has risen or declined

  • Back strategic decisions with evidence-based occupation history

What’s included in the API?

The API provides a time series of demand scores for a selected occupation, segmented by country and year. The demand score is a derived metric that reflects occupational market prevalence within Pearson’s aggregated data.
 
Field Description
Year Calendar year of the data point
Demand Score A normalized score representing relative demand for the occupation
Country Market context for the trend (e.g. AU, UK, US, etc.)

This view allows you to compare occupations or markets over time to inform strategy.

Input and Output

Input required:

  • An Occupation — selected by name or ontology code

  • Optional: Country Code for national segmentation

Output includes:

  • A time series of demand scores per year

  • Metadata for each point (e.g. country, year, occupation ID)

Real-world applications

Here’s how teams use the Historical Occupation Trends API:

  • Track the rise or fall of occupations to guide talent strategies

  • Compare demand trends across roles to prioritize reskilling or hiring

  • Justify strategic workforce decisions using longitudinal data

  • Embed into dashboards for HRBPs and workforce analysts

API Bundle

This API is available in the following bundle:

Industry Labour Market Trend. Designed for analysts and planners evaluating macro labour movements