Solutions | Skills Taxonomy Evolution
Be Ready for the Future with Skills Intelligence
Use Horsefly to track emerging skills, map talent needs, and stay ahead of market trends when creating your best strategy.

Sophisticated Market Monitoring for Understanding Skills Evolution
For modern organizations, accurately tracking the evolution of skills and identifying emerging capabilities requires sophisticated market monitoring and talent mapping. With Horsefly's dynamic skill tracking analytics, leaders can visualize how the rapid pace of skill evolution impacts talent availability and develop robust strategies to build tomorrow's workforce today.
Gain Edge on Your Competition with Horsefly's Comprehensive Skills Taxonomy Solutions
Our advanced analytics platform empowers you to monitor emerging skills, understand their true market value, and confidently strategically plan your talent acquisition and development efforts.
Our skills taxonomy solutions allow you to:
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Track emerging skills and their market adoption rates in real-time - Identify which skills are truly emerging versus just rebranded existing capabilities. Monitor adoption rates across industries with sophisticated market intelligence that shows you where the talent market is heading before your competitors recognize the same trends.
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Gain intelligence on early career and niche skills requirements - Understand the evolving landscape of entry-level and specialized roles. Receive early warning signals about emerging talent constraints so you can adjust recruitment strategies and build talent pipelines that secure tomorrow's critical skills today.
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Create detailed talent mapping for new skill requirements - Transform skills intelligence into actionable hiring plans that support your strategic objectives. Map relationships between existing and emerging capabilities to develop targeted upskilling pathways and optimize your workforce planning.
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Improve global reach with data-driven recruitment support - Leverage comprehensive skills data to understand talent pools for expanding business operations. Compare skills availability across multiple markets to identify hidden talent sources and secure first-mover advantage in emerging skill areas.
Data You Can Trust
Skill Emergence Intelligence
Track emerging skills and their true market impact with unprecedented accuracy. Our dynamic skill tracking analytics go far beyond traditional annual skills surveys to give you real-time insights into the evolving talent landscape.
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Real-time demand acceleration detection: Identify skills experiencing rapid growth in demand across job postings and professional profiles
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Cross-industry adoption monitoring: Track how new skills spread from early-adopting sectors to mainstream industries
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Emerging skill forecasting: Recognize early indicators of capability trends before they become mainstream requirements

Skill Relationship Analysis
Access sophisticated mapping of skill relationships and evolution pathways to understand how capabilities connect and transform over time. Move beyond basic skill grouping to gain strategic insights into workforce development opportunities.
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Skill cluster identification: Discover natural groupings of complementary skills that frequently appear together in market demand
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Evolution pathway tracking: Visualize how skills transform and evolve into new capabilities over time
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Capability transformation analysis: Identify which existing skills provide the strongest foundation for developing high-demand future capabilities
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Adjacency mapping: Understand the relationships between current and emerging skills to create efficient upskilling pathways
Market Value Tracking
Understand the true premium commanded by emerging skills across different markets and career stages. Our comprehensive value analytics provide detailed insights into the financial implications of skill evolution.
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Real-time premium tracking: Monitor salary differentials for specific skill combinations as they emerge and mature
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Geographic value variation: Compare skill premiums across different locations to optimize talent investment strategies
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ROI forecasting: Project the financial return on investing in specific skill development initiatives for your workforce
Industry Diffusion Intelligence
Gain comprehensive visibility into how skills spread across sectors and predict future adoption patterns. Our cross-industry adoption analytics help you stay ahead of talent market trends.
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Early adopter identification: Pinpoint which industries and organizations are leading the adoption of emerging skills
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Adoption velocity tracking: Measure the speed at which new skills are being incorporated into different sectors
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Industry impact prediction: Forecast how emerging skills will transform specific industries and create new talent demands
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Competitive skills positioning: Benchmark your organization's skills portfolio against industry leaders and innovation frontrunners
The Horsefly Advantage
Identify the best global markets for sustainable business growth and business scenario planning.
Unmatched Global Data
The widest global data reach in the industry, covering more countries, cities, and talent pools than any other platform. Make truly informed global decisions with complete market visibility.

Incredibly Granular
Our platform integrates the most diverse data sources available, combining job boards, professional networks, government statistics, and proprietary datasets for the most accurate and detailed view of global talent markets.
Instant
Insights
User-friendly interface designed with decision-makers in mind. Transform complex data into actionable intelligence with just a few clicks. Export presentation-ready reports to share with stakeholders.
Real-time Updates
All data is refreshed and validated daily, ensuring your scenario planning is based on the most current market conditions and emerging trends, not outdated assumptions.
Success Stories
Leeds Building Society:
Challenge:
Required understanding of emerging technical skills within Credit Risk, particularly SAS expertise, and needed clarity on the evolution of specialized capabilities.
Horsefly Solution:
Provided technology trend tracking and comprehensive skills evolution analysis with detailed mapping of value premiums.
Impact:
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Identified significant skill gaps (only 7% of talent had SAS skills vs. 17% of market demand)
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Discovered a 30% salary premium for emerging technical skills at entry-level
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Revealed patterns of technical skill shortage across the market
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Developed a strategic approach for modern programming language adoption
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Enabled informed decisions between upskilling existing talent and external recruitment

Nationwide Building Society:
Challenge:
Required detailed mapping of the UK technical talent market and emerging skills distribution to support IT transformation initiatives.
Horsefly Solution:
Delivered comprehensive skill-set mapping and evolution tracking across 12 key locations with future trend analysis.
Impact:
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Enabled evidence-based discussions between business functions about talent strategies
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Created realistic talent attraction goals based on actual market conditions
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Improved understanding of technical talent availability across regions
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Supported major strategic IT transformation project with skills intelligence
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Better understanding of emerging skill distributions to guide development priorities

Admiral Group PLC:
Challenge:
Needed to transform from traditional culture to support emerging tech skills acquisition and build capabilities for future growth.
Horsefly Solution:
Provided alternative title mapping and emerging skill identification with comprehensive talent pool insights.
Impact:
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Successfully managed the doubling of hard-to-fill tech roles despite a competitive market
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Reduced external recruitment costs for specialized capabilities
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Informed product development roadmap based on skill evolution trends
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Enhanced hiring packs with market insights for more effective recruitment
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Strengthened technical talent pipeline through targeted university outreach

“I needed to be able to not only provide evidence of what the skill set looks like today, but also come up with a series of related questions, such as: What if we work in this or that location? What difference would that make? What’s the impact on compensation? What’s the impact on this skill’s availability? It’s critical just to be able to get a really good set of data that enables us to keep going back and asking sort of fresh questions of data.”
— Workforce Planning Leader,
Ørsted
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