# Exende Jobs Skills Ranking

> Exende Jobs Skills Ranking is a paid API for AI agents from api.exende.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.05/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-23).

Returns the top skills observed in job postings, ranked by frequency, with counts and coverage metadata for a given role, company, or location over a 7-day window.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.exende.dev/v1/jobs/skills?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.05/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-23
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/exende-jobs-skills-ranking-68578b31
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_FkPWasFo95a8lrAGcaVvP

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability exende-jobs-skills-ranking-68578b31
```

Example prompt: What are the top skills showing up in software engineer job postings over the past week — can you pull the ranked list from Exende's job data, filtering for the 'software engineer' role?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need a ranked, frequency-counted view of skills explicitly observed in real job postings, scoped to a specific role, company domain, or location over the past 7 days. Prefer it over generic skills databases when you want empirical hiring signal from live job records rather than curated or self-reported skill taxonomies. It is particularly useful for competitive intelligence, resume gap analysis, curriculum design, or recruiting strategy grounded in recent market data.

## Known failure modes

- Role or location string exceeds 80 characters or 8 terms — request rejected with validation error
- Company domain includes URL scheme or path — schema validation failure
- No matching job records found for the given filters — returns empty skills array with zero sample_size
- Period values other than '7d' are unsupported and will return an error
- Sparse data for niche roles or small companies may yield low sample sizes reducing statistical reliability

## How this service works

Rank skills explicitly observed in matching job records, with denominators and coverage limits.

## Output

Returns an array of up to 10 skills ranked by observed_job_count, each with the skill name, how many jobs in the sample mentioned it, and the total sample size. Also includes observation period (start/end timestamps, always 7 days), basis description, and rich metadata covering product name, generation timestamp, freshness, coverage, methodology, and limitations.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [],
     "properties": {
      "role": {
       "type": "string",
       "maxLength": 80,
       "minLength": 2,
       "description": "Substring of current job title; at most eight terms."
      },
      "period": {
       "enum": [
        "7d"
       ],
       "type": "string",
       "default": "7d",
       "description": "Seven-day observation window; other periods are unsupported."
      },
      "company": {
       "type": "string",
       "example": "example.com",
       "maxLength": 253,
       "description": "ASCII company domain; no URL scheme, port or path."
      },
      "location": {
       "type": "string",
       "maxLength": 80,
       "minLength": 2,
       "description": "Source location text; at most eight terms. Not a normalized city."
      }
     },
     "additionalProperties": false
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "data",
      "meta"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "data": {
       "type": "object",
       "required": [
        "skills",
        "sample_size",
        "observation_period",
        "basis"
       ],
       "properties": {
        "basis": {
         "type": "string"
        },
        "skills": {
         "type": "array",
         "items": {
          "type": "object",
          "required": [
           "skill",
           "observed_job_count",
           "sample_size"
          ],
          "properties": {
           "skill": {
            "type": "string"
           },
           "sample_size": {
            "type": "integer",
            "minimum": 0
           },
           "observed_job_count": {
            "type": "integer",
            "minimum": 0
           }
          },
          "additionalProperties": false
         },
         "maxItems": 10
        },
        "sample_size": {
         "type": "integer",
         "minimum": 0
        },
        "observation_peri
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```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/exende-jobs-skills-ranking-68578b31/health.json
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