Workforce data · Occupational skills, tasks, and competency data API
O*NET Web Services: coverage and access
Power job-to-skill matching, technical persona discovery, or a developer-tool onboarding recommender by mapping occupations to tasks, knowledge, skills, and crosswalks. Strong for HR-tech, learning, recruiting, workforce intelligence, and developer-skills products that need a standardized occupation/skill ontology.
What it covers
Geography and granularity
Geography: Use the geography stated by the source; coverage can vary by dataset and release.
Granularity: Power job-to-skill matching, technical persona discovery, or a developer-tool onboarding recommender by mapping occupations to tasks, knowledge, skills, and crosswalks.
Source type: Occupational skills, tasks, and competency data API
Potential use
Power job-to-skill matching, technical persona discovery, or a developer-tool onboarding recommender by mapping occupations to tasks, knowledge, skills, and crosswalks. Strong for HR-tech, learning, recruiting, workforce intelligence, and developer-skills products that need a standardized occupation/skill ontology.
Access and cost
Account or registration
REST API returning JSON; developers must register for access, and the service documents authentication, rate limits, pagination, and licensing.
Cost: Current price was not established in this review; check the provider's access terms.
Update cadence: Release cadence was not normalized in this review; check the source's dates, update notes, and API limits before comparing periods.
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Interpret carefully
Limits that affect the decision
API access requires registration and is governed by O*NET Web Services licensing; do not assume unrestricted bulk redistribution merely because the data is publicly viewable.; U.S. occupational framework and SOC-linked data; it is not a globally representative labor-skill census, although crosswalks can connect to other classifications.; O*NET releases/database versions change over time; API results represent the service's current version and should be version-aware for reproducible analytics.
Release cadence was not normalized in this review; check the source's dates, update notes, and API limits before comparing periods.
This record summarizes source documentation; Jon Bishop did not conduct an independent audit of the underlying dataset.