"Hot and Cold Skills by Job Postings" is a report available in the US, UK, CA and is meant to highlight growing and declining skills.
This can be helpful when identifying how skills are shifting within a particular region, company, industry, occupation, or program in order to keep up with the ever changing labor market.
Methodology
The first section of the report displays the top ten growing and top ten declining skills, based on the beginning and the end of the job posting timeframe. The dark blue bars indicate how many job postings contained the skill at the beginning of the timeframe, while the green/red bars indicate the net change when compared to the end of the timeframe.
For example, when trying to identify how employers in Washington state have shifted their skill requirements for Mechanical Engineers in Jan 2024 compared to Dec 2024, the graph shows that there have been an increase of job postings with skills like Space Flight and Quality Assurance and a decline in job postings with skills like HVAC and Troubleshooting.
The graph is separated by the top ten skills that have seen the largest positive net change in job postings, and then the top ten skills that have seen the largest negative net change in job postings.
The second section of the report is meant to give more details into the volatility of the top 20 skills over the past five quarters before the end of the selected timeframe.
Using the same example from above, notice that even though Troubleshooting saw the biggest decline from Jan 2024 to Dec 2024, it still appears in the top 20 results, with the biggest decline from Q3 to Q4.
