Skill Trends by Industry API Group Guide
Skill Trends by Industry API Group gives you a fast, structured way to understand how skill demand is changing across industries.
It brings together four complementary APIs — Trending, Emerging, Declining, and Historical — to reveal which skills are rising, which are stabilizing, and which are losing relevance within specific industries.
Whether you're planning workforce initiatives, analysing market movement, or shaping talent strategies, this API group surfaces real-time labour market signals grounded in job-ad data and industry-specific trends.
It empowers strategy, people, and workforce teams to align decisions with evidence-based insights about shifting market needs.
Who is this API Group for?
This API group is ideal for roles focused on understanding workforce market trends, industry changes, and future skill requirements. In particular:
- People Analyst – exploring current and emerging skill patterns to support talent decisions.
- People Strategist – integrating labour market signals into workforce strategy and long-term capability planning.
- Workforce Planner – assessing industry-specific skill shifts to guide hiring, restructuring, or reskilling.
- Talent Recruiter – adapting sourcing and attraction strategies based on what skills are gaining or losing demand.
Goals this API Group helps you achieve
The Skill Trends by Industry API Group directly supports objectives such as:
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Explore skills gaining traction within specific industries to anticipate future hiring and capability needs.
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Identify newly rising skill requirements early, before they become mainstream.
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Detect skills that are declining in demand to refine training, workforce, or recruitment strategy.
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Track how any selected skill evolves over time within an industry using historical trend curves.
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Make market-aligned decisions using real-time labour market signals updated quarterly.
What’s included in the API Group?
This group combines four interconnected skill-trend APIs, each offering a different lens on industry skill dynamics:
| Section | Description |
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| Trending Skills by Industry | Skills rapidly increasing in relevance within an industry — ranked in the top 5% of rising skill–industry combinations. |
| Emerging Skills by Industry | Skills that historically had low demand but are now growing, offering early signals of future capability needs. |
| Declining Skills by Industry | Skills showing the steepest downward trajectory in job-ad mentions for the selected industry. |
| Historical Skill Trends by Industry | A time-series view showing how demand for a selected skill has changed over months or years. |
Together, these views help you balance short-term momentum with long-term industry evolution — making it easier to align planning, training, and workforce decisions with real-world trends.
Input and Output
Input required:
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Industry — required for Trending, Emerging, and Declining views.
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Skill — required only for Historical trends.
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Country (optional) — defaults to US.
Output includes:
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A list of trending, emerging, or declining skills for the selected industry.
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Skill-level metadata such as skill names and descriptions.
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For historical trends:
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job-ad mention volumes
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monthly and rolling-trend curves
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time-series visualisation (as seen in the chart on your interface)
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These outputs make it easy to track the skill lifecycle — from early emergence to peak demand to decline.
Real-world applications
Here’s how teams use the Skill Trends by Industry API Group in strategic initiatives:
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Compare industries to understand where skill requirements are shifting fastest.
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Identify early-stage emerging skills to guide investment in training and development.
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Adjust recruitment strategies to prioritise skills trending upward in a target industry.
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Monitor declining skills to reduce overinvestment or refine role requirements.
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Use historical curves to forecast future demand and understand seasonality or long-term movement.
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Support market-informed workforce planning by aligning capability development to industry realities.
API Bundle
This API group is available in:
Industry Labour Market Trend - Ideal for teams focused on market analysis, industry forecasting, talent strategy, and future-skill planning.