# TalentPulse Skills Demand API

> TalentPulse Skills Demand API is a paid API for AI agents from talentpulse-six.vercel.app, paid per call via x402, $0.12/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Returns real-time skill-demand trends including demand levels, salary premiums, hot cities, and emerging vs declining skills for any skill set or role across global labor markets.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://talentpulse-six.vercel.app/api/talent/skills-demand
- Price: $0.12/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/talentpulse-skills-demand-api-17addc31
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_ykjl0K-S_aVV-W9E4XIbC

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 talentpulse-skills-demand-api-17addc31
```

Example prompt: What's the current market demand for Python and Kubernetes skills for a senior DevOps engineer role — I need demand levels, any salary premiums they command, which cities are hottest for hiring, and whether those skills are emerging or declining globally?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need real-time, granular skill-level demand intelligence including salary premiums and city-level hot spots — not just general salary benchmarks. Prefer this over salary-only endpoints when the question is about skill trends, emerging vs declining technologies, or geographic demand concentration for a specific skill set.

## Known failure modes

- Unknown or too-niche skill returns low-confidence or empty results
- Overly broad role query may return aggregated rather than specific data
- Rate limiting or payment failure returns 402 or 429 status
- Geographic data may be sparse for less-tracked labor markets

## How this service works

Skill-demand trends and hiring-market intelligence by skill/role and region — demand level, salary premium, hot cities and global hot spots, plus emerging vs declining skills. Real-time global labor-market signals for recruiting, sourcing and talent agents. Any skill set or role, worldwide, 10 languages.

## Output

Returns structured data including current demand level (e.g. high/medium/low), salary premium percentage for the queried skills, a ranked list of hot cities actively hiring, classification of each skill as emerging or declining, and global geographic hot spots where demand is concentrated.

## 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",
      "HEAD",
      "DELETE"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {
      "lang": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "en | es | fr | de | ja | zh | ko | pt | ar | hi (default: en)"
      },
      "region": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Geographic focus — e.g. \"Southeast Asia\" | \"Europe\" | \"North America\" | \"MENA\" | \"Latin America\" | \"Global\" (default: Global)"
      },
      "skills": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Skill(s) or role — e.g. \"machine learning\" | \"React\" | \"Kubernetes\" | \"product management\" | \"financial modeling\" | \"Mandarin Chinese\""
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "errors": {
     "type": "object",
     "description": "Documented error responses, keyed by HTTP status code",
     "additionalProperties": {
      "type": "object",
      "required": [
       "description"
      ],
      "properties": {
       "example": {
        "type": "object"
       },
       "description": {
        "type": "string"
       }
      }
     }
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "region": "Southeast Asia",
  "demand_summary": {
   "market_tension": "hot_candidate_market",
   "overall_demand": "very_high",
   "demand_trajectory": "accelerating"
  },
  "skills_analyzed": [
   "machine learning",
   "LLM fine-tuning"
  ],
  "global_hot_spots": {
   "europe": "London, Berlin, Amsterdam",
   "asia_pacific": "Singapore, Bangalore, Seoul",
   "north_america": "San Francisco, NYC, Toronto"
  }
 }
}
```

## More

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