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Skill Trends by Occupation API Group Guide

Skill Trends by Occupation API Group combines multiple APIs to surface trending insights about the skills shaping specific occupations.

It helps you understand which capabilities are emerging, declining, or consistent — so you can take action on upskilling, hiring, or strategic planning.

It empowers L&D, workforce strategy, and HR analytics teams to track how roles are evolving based on real-world data.

Who is this API for?

This API group is ideal for people and workforce teams who need to analyze changing skill demands for targeted roles. In particular:

  • People Analyst – surfacing data-backed trends to support business decisions

  • Learning Manager – aligning training programs to future-relevant capabilities

  • People Strategist – identifying workforce risks or opportunities due to skill shifts

  • Workforce Planner – forecasting workforce needs and gaps over time

  • Talent Recruiter – updating sourcing strategies based on skill emergence or decline

Goals this API helps you achieve

The Skill Trends by Occupation API Group directly supports:

  • Explore workforce market trends across skills and roles

  • Analyze role-specific skills and how they’re evolving over time

  • Detect emerging, declining, or stable skills within a specific occupation

  • Support training and workforce planning with real-time data

What’s included in the API Group?

This group bundles together multiple APIs that each offer a unique lens on skill trends for a given occupation:

API Name Description
Trending Skills by Occupation Skills growing in relevance for the occupation based on job posting trends.
Emerging Skills by Occupation Recently surfaced skills that weren’t commonly mentioned in prior periods.
Declining Skills by Occupation Skills that are fading in relevance for the occupation.
Historical Skill Trends by Occupation Long-term trendline showing skill frequency over time for a selected skill.

⚠️ The Historical Skill Trends by Occupation chart only appears after selecting a skill from one of the other lists (Trending, Emerging, or Declining). It reveals the historical pattern for that specific skill.

Input and Output

Input required:

  • An Occupation — can be selected by name or by ontology code.

  • Optional: Country and Occupation Level for market-specific results.

Output includes:

  • Three lists of skills:

    • Occupation Trending Skills

    • Occupation Emerging Skills

    • Occupation Declining Skills

  • Each skill entry includes:

    • Skill name, description, and unique ID

    • An ellipses menu to pass into the Historical Skill Trends by Occupation API

  • A line chart (if triggered) showing frequency of a selected skill over time

Real-world applications

Here’s how teams use the Skill Trends by Occupation API Group:

  • Update learning programs to reflect fast-growing skills

  • Identify at-risk capabilities in declining skill areas

  • Map emerging skills for new or transforming roles

  • Forecast future needs by analyzing long-term trends

  • Develop future-fit job profiles with data-backed skill lists

API Bundles

This API Group is available in the following bundles:

  • Skill Analysis & Development

    • Ideal for learning, workforce strategy, and org design

  • Industry Labour Market Trend

    • Ideal for long-term workforce planning and analytics