What is changing?
Lightcast is introducing postings from key national level sources across Global Data and further improving our geocoding process to better assign postings to the city level.
When will this change take place?
This change will take place on the 16th January 2026
What will this change mean for me?
Total postings counts will show changes across postings history compared to prior posting volumes across nations.
This adjustment will mean that the overall volumes in Global data will have annual change from mid 2024. Trend lines in the years will remain consistent.
Estimated national annual changes are as follows for new postings:
| 2024 | 2025 |
Belgium | 30% | 40% |
Brazil | - | 30% |
Canada | - | 8% |
Chile | 12% | 15% |
Czechia | 10% | 22% |
Denmark |
| 9% |
France | 7% | 11% |
Germany | 15% | 20% |
Hungary | - | 11% |
India | 6% | 9% |
Indonesia | - | 17% |
Italy |
| 4% |
Mexico | 2% | 7% |
Netherlands | 30% | 30% |
Poland | 5% | 6% |
Portugal | 5% | 3% |
Spain | 8% | 20% |
Sweden | 4% | 7% |
UK | - | 3% |
Active postings will experience the same annual changes.
What does this mean for my analysis?
Overall posting counts have shifted.
Consistent trends: Looking at the change from a ranking/distribution standpoint we see the same/similar rankings in occupations, skills, titles and all other data points as we did previously.
More noticeable changes potential in specific analyses: In more targeted analyses, customers may see more significant shifts. We have seen a proportional change in all other data elements, but customers may choose to rerun some analysis due to this.
Why are you making this change?
Lightcast is continually investing in Global job postings, this change introduces greater depth of data representativeness, including capturing postings across a broader range of sources. In addition to this change we continually complete routine curation work on our dataset, detailed changes can be found Here.