Impacting Technologies by Occupation API Guide
Impacting Technologies by Occupation API identifies the specific technologies—across automation and augmentation—that have the greatest potential impact on a selected occupation in a given year.
It helps you understand which technologies are driving change, enabling smarter technology investment decisions, transformation planning, and workforce strategy at the occupation level.
Who is this API for?
This API is designed for roles focused on strategic workforce and technology planning, particularly:
- Tech Strategist - To assess which technologies are most transformative for an occupation and prioritise where to invest in automation or augmentation capabilities.
- People Analyst - To understand how technologies are reshaping job functions, supporting future workforce planning, and informing role redesign or upskilling initiatives.
Goals this API helps you achieve
The Impacting Technologies by Occupation API supports strategy-focused decisions such as:
- Identify high-impact technologies. See which automation and augmentation technologies contribute the most to productivity gains in a specific role.
- Prioritise technology investments. Focus on the technologies that create the greatest total impact on work content.
- Understand how work will transform. Interpret how different technologies automate tasks or augment worker performance.
- Compare technology influence across occupations. Run side-by-side comparisons to determine which roles are most influenced by specific tech categories.
What’s included in the response?
When queried with an Occupation ID and Year, this API returns a list of technologies and their associated automation, augmentation, and total impact values:
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| technologyType | Name of the impacting technology (e.g., “LLM Chatbot”, “Robotic Process Automation”) |
| automationPercent | % of work time the technology can automate |
| automationHours | Hours of automatable work (based on a 40-hour work week) |
| augmentationPercent | % of work time the technology can augment |
| augmentationHours | Hours of augmentable work |
| totalImpactPercent | Combined % time affected by this technology |
| totalImpactHours | Combined total hours affected |
| year | The selected projection year (e.g., 2030) |
All values are specific to the occupation and technology type, allowing you to see which technologies matter most and how strongly they influence the role.
Input and Output
Input:
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Occupation ID (from Pearson’s Occupation Ontology)
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Year (required for selecting a future projection point)
Output:
A structured list of technology-level automation, augmentation, and total tech impact values (in % and hours), ranked by impact.
Real-world applications
This API is commonly used in strategic workforce, technology, and transformation work, such as:
- Technology strategy teams
Prioritising which technologies to adopt first based on their projected impact on key roles. - Workforce planning teams
Understanding how different technologies reshape occupations and planning for resourcing, redesign, or restructuring accordingly. - Learning & development leaders
Identifying augmentation-heavy technologies to guide targeted upskilling, reskilling, and AI enablement programs. - Business transformation leaders
Mapping technology impact to workforce planning to align investment, operating model changes, and role evolution.
API Bundle
This API is available in the following bundle:
Technology Impact on Workforce
Ideal for understanding which technologies drive the biggest automation and augmentation changes and informing digital transformation strategy.