Job Market Data
Our Applied Research team provides custom, in-depth job market data analysis for corporate clients and educational institutions.
Understanding the Market, and Guiding Decisions
Gathering job market data is one thing but making sense of it and putting it to practical use is a whole different challenge. Our Applied Research team tackles this challenge by providing the analysis and tactical advice on skills and jobs that employers need most.


Our teams cover topics that:
- Guide educators to make critical decisions about new degree programs
- Assist governments in making job training investments based on the skills employer need most
- Develop customized career ladders to help job seekers find opportunities for advancement
Our Research
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Fundação José Neves
Fundação José Neves engaged Burning Glass Technologies to support them in the analysis of Portuguese Labour Market to detect how it’s evolving during time, which are the most demanded occupation and it there are emerging skills that need to be addressed and learned by people to ensure a successful professional career.

AQU Catalunya
Introduction The Catalan University Quality Assurance Agency, AQU Catalunya, is the main instrument for the promotion and assurance of quality in the Catalan higher education system. AQU Catalunya is entrusted with the assessment, accreditation and certification of quality in the universities and higher education institutions in Catalonia. Challenge Governments and socio-economic partners in Catalunya are unanimous […]

Stay Nimble Uses Labor Market Data to Match Members with the Perfect Career
Stay Nimble Uses Labor Market Data to Match Members with the Perfect Career The Partner Stay Nimble is a digital career coaching platform that helps people find their purpose and their perfect career match. Using Burning Glass Technologies’ real-time labor market data, Stay Nimble is able to put their members in touch with the nature of […]

Cisco Uses Labor Market Data to Empower Today’s Workforce and Plan for Tomorrow’s Skill Needs
Cisco Uses Labor Market Data to Empower Today’s Workforce and Plan for Tomorrow’s Skill Needs The Partner Cisco began working with Burning Glass Technologies in 2018 to gain a holistic view of the skills and talent within Cisco’s enterprise. Labor market data has helped Cisco easily identify the skillsets of their current workforce and empower […]

Mapping the Genome of Jobs: The Burning Glass Skills Taxonomy
When using real-time labor data, a skills taxonomy is crucial: it is how you take the tremendous amount of data available from job postings and turn it into actionable insights.

Labour Market Big Data: the bridge between Education and Job
The labor market is changing at an ever-higher rate. The high rate of change makes it more difficult to match new graduates and jobs, and it also presents new challenges for their education if they are to develop in line with the labor market.

Jobs of Tomorrow: Mapping Opportunity in the New Economy
Seven “emerging professions” shaped by new technology will drive new job growth worldwide, according to a new World Economic Forum study using data from Burning Glass Technologies.

Towards a Reskilling Revolution: A Future of Jobs for All
This new report, Towards a Reskilling Revolution: Industry-Led Action for the Future of Work, makes the business case for reskilling the” at-risk workers”, both for business and governments. The report creates a balance sheet for retraining existing workers against firing them and bringing in workers with new skills.

SalesForce skills in high demand.
SalesForce Skills in high demand. “Want to land a better job? If you do one thing in pursuit of that goal this year, you should add Salesforce skills to your resume. It’s one of the fastest-growing, most in-demand skills out there”. Burning-Glass Technology observed this trend within the labor market in the US in 2017 […]

What’s Trending in Jobs and Skills
What’s Trending in Jobs and Skills The study examines more than 95 million online job postings over three years to identify both the fastest-growing jobs and fastest-growing skills in the U.S. job market. Would you like to know which are the skills and jobs in high demand and those that are declining? Fill the form […]