LinkUp RAW
What is LinkUp RAW?: LinkUp's flagship dataset: 315million+ global job postings, indexed daily since 2007.
The foundation of all LinkUp’s solutions is its proprietary, high quality job market data, which is collected exclusively from over 80,000 employer sites and updated daily.
- Predict company performance
- Identify investment opportunities
- Workforce planning and retention
- Benchmarking companies
- Start date
- 2007
- Total jobs indexed
- 315,000,000
- Companies
- 80,000
- Countries
- 195
- Highest daily active job count
- 10,000,000
- Unique primary tickers
- 8,500
- Sectors and industries
- All
- Unique job attributes
- 38
- Unique company attributes
- 14
Find your labor market
intelligence use case:
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Decode company performance
Aggregated job postings show a company’s strategic moves weeks before they take effect. Evaluate company health and market trends over time. See beyond the brick wall of official reports to measure skills demand, anticipate layoffs, and inform investment strategy with historical backtesting.
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Identify investment opportunities
Leverage the most reliable job market data, built for fundamental, macro, and quantitive trading strategies. Our extensive dataset holds valuable signal at the company, industry, and global macro levels.Forecast growth and manage risk with precision.
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Strategic workforce planning
Skip traditional metrics. Our raw data empowers you to improve workforce planning by understanding dynamic skills trends and competitive salaries. Inform your talent acquisition strategy based on the most accurate labor demand data available.
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Benchmarking Peer companies
Compare daily hiring demand across peer groups. Identify new market entrants, potential threats, and industry outliers. Enhance your competitive monitoring by evaluating active jobs, monitoring occupation breakdowns, and analyzing skill requirements.
What is RAW job data?
Job data is a collection of information about job openings collected on company career portals and (usually) third party job sites. Data points includes details like job titles, descriptions, locations, salaries, required skills, and employer information.
Utilizing jobs data provides a number of key advantages:
- An accurate understanding of the job market
- High value investment signals
- Improved risk management and compliance models
- Informed and efficient hiring strategy
- Enhanced competitive analysis
Our data is delivered via API, datashare, or data visualization platforms like LinkUp Compass.
LinkUp's data fields
Our dataset features comprehensive job listings that include a variety of data points related to both the job and the employer. Each job record encompasses essential information such as the job title, description, location, various date and time attributes, URL, and much more. Additionally, we systematically map jobs to occupation codes and employers to sector codes, enhancing data organization and analysis.
LinkUp Data Summary
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Complete LinkUp dataset dating to 2007, further back than any competitor
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Millions of job openings updated and delivered daily
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Hundreds of millions of job listings from over 80,000 employers globally
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Job listings sourced directly from company websites, while competitors source polluted data
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Our data aggregated at the macro, sector, company, and regional levels
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Dedicated, in-house teams of developers and data quality engineers
RAW data files consist of four distinct components
Individual job listings, job descriptions, core analytics, and reference firmographic data.
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Job Listing and Job Description
Job records: Every data field for each job except its full-text description, including title, location, active dates, URL, unique hash, and other critical data points.
Job descriptions: Full-text descriptions for every job listing in our index. A unique job identifier allows for easy mapping to its corresponding record.
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Core analytics
20 core macro, sector, and micro analytics.
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Reference firmographic data
Reference firmographic data identifiers, taxonomies, and tags.
How do we source our data?
LinkUp's technology and infrastructure collects data from thousands of employer websites daily. Each job posting is captured, including its title, description, and location. Teir 1 Companies are updated every 24 hours with new postings, removed postings, or updated postings. This means several million unique job postings are checked each day.
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Uncorrupted sourcing
LinkUp sources job listings directly from company hiring websites, while our competitors source from job aggregators burdened with duplicate and expired listings.
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Multiple delivery options
LinkUp delivers RAW data via Snowflake, AWS, Azure, GCP, FTP, Databricks, Google BigQuery, and API.
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Continuous delivery
Ask us about Continuous Delivery — a premium service enhancement for users interested in even timelier data. Files are delivered throughout the day.
Documentation to help you easily navigate our dataset.
Learn more about our job market data, including definitions, data sources, and methodologies. Access our comprehensive data dictionary, FAQs, and a searchable knowledge base for self-serve support.
Flexible data delivery and access: LinkUp RAW is updated and delivered daily, containing structured and unstructured data, as well as analytics files.
Bring raw data to life in seconds.
Automatically render presentation-grade visualizations—no spreadsheets or coding required.
LinkUp Compass allows you to filter our dataset to your unique business needs, and export visually striking insights instantly to present your POV with ease.
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RAW
About
Our most complete set of job market data dating back to 2007.
Data
- Active jobs
- Historical jobs (2007)
- Occupation, Industry, Location mappings
- Mapped to public symbols
Files
- Job records
- Full-text job descriptions
- Structured fields
- Aggregated job Counts
- Company Reference Files
Delivery
- Daily updates
- Monthly full data
- FTP
- Google Cloud
- Snowflake
- AWS
- Azure
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Feeds
About
Active job listings delivered daily with customizations
Data
- Active jobs
- Custom unique job fields
Files
- Active job records
- Full-text job descriptions
Delivery
- Daily updates
- Monthly full data
- FTP
- Google Cloud
- Snowflake
- AWS
- Azure
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Market Reports
About
Custom or packaged reports for macro, geographic, company, or industry level insights.
Data
- Active, New and Deleted Job Counts and Duration
- History - 2012
- Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly, Yearly Aggregation
Files
- 80+ combinations of aggregation
- CSV, excel, parquet file formats
- Delivery can be scheduled daily, weekly, monthly or quarterly
Delivery
- Daily updates
- Monthly full data
- FTP
- Google Cloud
- Snowflake
- AWS
- Azure
Leading the conversation: LinkUp data drives cutting edge research.
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Management Science
Are Online Job Postings Informative to Investors?
Apr. 25, 2019
View Article- Academic research
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Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis
Where Did the Workers Go?
Jan. 24, 2024
View Article- Capital markets
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UMD & LinkUp
AI Maps | Rise of the Rest: The Changing Geography of AI Jobs in America
Jan. 30, 2024
View Article- Academic research
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