The Job Posting Start Month indicates when Lightcast finished building out the aggregation of sources for a given country. Lightcast adds data sources over time to each country to ensure comprehensive job postings data coverage, also past the start month.
Please note that Lightcast job postings data are unsmoothed datasets, which inherently makes them less stable due to the real-time nature of the data. Therefore, absolute volume changes can vary depending on the country and the reliability of sources.
Lightcast has compiled specific information per geography to assist customers in navigating top-line data trends. We welcome any questions or suggestions from customers regarding job postings data sources. Please direct your inquiries to [email protected].
Global start months are available for sets 1, 2 and 3.
Geography | Region | Job Posting Start Month | Notes on Top Line Data Trends per Country |
Australia | APAC | January 2012 | Comprehensive overview of the country job postings data. Lightcast expanded coverage of data sources in 2019, 2022, 2025. |
China | APAC | January 2016 | Lightcast has had consistent data scraping from Jan 2023. |
Hong Kong | APAC | August 2020 | Lightcast has had consistent data scraping from August 2020. |
India | APAC | August 2020 | Lightcast has had consistent data scraping from April 2024. |
Indonesia | APAC | August 2020 | Good overview of the country job postings data. Lightcast expanded coverage of data sources in 2023. |
Japan | APAC | August 2020 | Lightcast continue to add reliable data sources to enable comprehensive job postings data coverage. |
Malaysia | APAC | August 2020 | Lightcast has had consistent data scraping from April 2024. |
New Zealand | APAC | September 2012 | Comprehensive overview of the country job postings data. Lightcast expanded coverage of data sources in 2019, 2022, 2025. |
Philippines | APAC | August 2020 | Lightcast has had consistent source scraping from April 2024. |
Singapore | APAC | January 2012 | Comprehensive overview of the country job postings data. Lightcast expanded coverage of data sources in 2019, 2022, 2025. |
South Korea | APAC | August 2020 | Lightcast continue to add reliable data sources to enable comprehensive data coverage |
Austria | EMEA | March 2018 | Comprehensive overview of the country job postings data. Lightcast expanded coverage of data sources in 2022. |
Belgium | EMEA | March 2018 | Comprehensive overview of the country job postings data. Lightcast expanded coverage of data sources in 2022. |
Croatia | EMEA | October 2018 | Lightcast has had consistent data scraping from January 2020. |
Czechia | EMEA | March 2018 | Good overview of the country job postings data. Lightcast expanded coverage of data sources in 2023. |
Denmark | EMEA | March 2018 | Good overview of the country job postings data. Lightcast expanded coverage of data sources in 2023. |
France | EMEA | March 2018 | Comprehensive overview of the country job postings data. Lightcast expanded coverage of data sources in 2022. |
Germany | EMEA | March 2018 | Comprehensive overview of the country job postings data. Lightcast expanded coverage of data sources in 2022. |
Hungary | EMEA | March 2018 | Good overview overview of the country job postings data. Lightcast has had consistent data scraping from January 2020. |
Ireland | EMEA | March 2018 | Comprehensive overview of the country job postings data. |
Italy | EMEA | January 2014 | Comprehensive overview of the country job postings data. Lightcast expanded coverage of data sources in 2022. |
Luxembourg | EMEA | March 2018 | Good overview of the country job postings data. Lightcast expanded coverage of data sources in 2020. |
Netherlands | EMEA | March 2018 | Comprehensive overview of the country job postings data. Lightcast expanded coverage of data sources in 2022. |
Poland | EMEA | March 2018 | Good overview of the country job postings data. Lightcast expanded coverage of data sources in 2021. |
Portugal | EMEA | March 2018 | Good overview of the country job postings data. Lightcast expanded coverage of data sources in 2023. |
Romania | EMEA | March 2018 | Good overview of the country job postings data. Lightcast expanded coverage of data sources in 2019. |
South Africa | EMEA | August 2020 | Lightcast has had consistent source scraping from April 2024. |
Spain | EMEA | March 2018 | Comprehensive overview of the country job postings data. Lightcast expanded coverage of data sources in 2022. |
Sweden | EMEA | December 2014 | Comprehensive overview of the country job postings data. Lightcast expanded coverage of data sources in 2023. |
Switzerland | EMEA | March 2018 | Lightcast has had consistent source scraping from Jan 2023. |
United Arab Emirates | EMEA | August 2020 | Lightcast has had consistent source scraping from April 2024. |
United Kingdom | EMEA | January 2012 | Comprehensive overview of the country job postings data. Lightcast expanded coverage of data sources in 2013, 2018. |
Argentina | LATAM | August 2020 | Lightcast continue to add reliable data sources to enable comprehensive data coverage. |
Brazil | LATAM | August 2020 | Good overview of the country job postings data. Lightcast expanded coverage of data sources in 2023. |
Costa Rica | LATAM | August 2020 | Lightcast continue to add reliable data sources to enable comprehensive data coverage. |
Chile | LATAM | August 2020 | Lightcast has had consistent source scraping from April 2024. |
Colombia | LATAM | August 2020 | Lightcast has had consistent source scraping from April 2024. |
Mexico | LATAM | August 2020 | Good overview of the country job postings data. Lightcast expanded coverage of data sources in 2024. |
Puerto Rico | LATAM | August 2020 | Good overview of the country job postings data. Lightcast expanded coverage of data sources in 2021. |
Canada | NA | January 2012 | Comprehensive overview of the country job postings data. Expanded coverage of data sources in 2013, 2018. |
United States | NA | January 2010 | Comprehensive overview of the country job postings data. Lightcast expanded coverage of data sources in 2013, 2018 and 2025. |