--- title: "What Is Workforce Analysis?" description: "[NewSearch millions of jobs from your AI agent with MCP→](/blog/jobspipe-mcp-server)" canonical: https://jobspipe.dev/blog/what-is-workforce-analysis last_updated: 2026-09-10 --- [NewSearch millions of jobs from your AI agent with MCP→](/blog/jobspipe-mcp-server) [All posts](/blog) ![](/listly/card-field.png) GuideAnalysis Guide·Sep 9, 2026·3 min read # What Is Workforce Analysis? What is workforce analysis? A structured review of headcount, cost, skills, location and attrition against what the business plan needs, ending in a gap. ![Dvir Atias](/authors/dvir-atias.jpg) Dvir Atias Founder, JobsPipe What is workforce analysis? It is the structured review of an organisation’s people: how many there are, what they cost, which skills they hold, where they sit, how they move and leave, and how all of that compares with what the business plan needs. The output is a gap statement that workforce planning then acts on. ## How to run a workforce analysis 1. **Set the question.** Which unit, which time horizon and which decision the analysis serves: a budget round, a reorganisation, a new site, an acquisition. An analysis without a decision attached produces a slide deck nobody uses. 2. **Assemble the internal data.** Headcount and cost by role, level and location from the HR system; tenure and attrition, split by who is leaving; the skills inventory, which most companies hold only roughly; performance and succession data where it exists. 3. **Segment.** Group people into role families and levels, mark the roles that are critical to the plan, and separate permanent staff from contractors. Most findings live in one or two segments, not in the company-wide averages. 4. **Add the external view.** Internal data says what you have; it cannot say what the market has or what it charges. Competitor postings show which roles rivals are adding and at what level, advertised pay shows what a role costs to fill per location, and skill shares per function show which requirements are common and which are scarce. 5. **Forecast and compare.** Project demand from the business plan and supply from current staff less expected attrition, then state the gap by role, skill, location and date. Distinguish gaps the market can fill from gaps that need training or redeployment. 6. **Hand off.** The gap statement feeds workforce planning, which decides how to close it, and from there the hiring plan, the learning budget and the contractor strategy. Three near-synonyms cause confusion. Workforce analysis is the review described above, a project with a deliverable. Workforce analytics is the ongoing practice and tooling that makes the review repeatable, covered in the [workforce analytics guide](/blog/workforce-analytics). Workforce planning is what happens next, the decisions and the plan, defined in [what is workforce planning](/answers/what-is-workforce-planning). The vendors that package the external view with the internal data are compared on the [talent intelligence platforms page](/talent-intelligence-platforms). ## Where JobsPipe fits JobsPipe is a jobs data API that collects live postings from LinkedIn, Indeed, Y Combinator, Naukri, Workday, Greenhouse, Workable, SmartRecruiters, Ashby, Lever and Paylocity, returns them as one schema with closure tracking and a ghost score, and includes a free tier of 1,000 jobs a month. It is the supply and demand input in step four: postings by competitor, level and location, with stated pay where the posting includes it and the skills each one names. The competitor cut is one request: ``` curl -X POST https://api.jobspipe.dev/v1/jobs/search \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $JOBSPIPE_API_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{ "company_name_or": ["Rival One", "Rival Two"], "job_seniority_or": ["senior", "lead"], "posted_at_max_age_days": 90, "status": "any", "limit": 100 }' ``` Set `status` to any so closed postings count as roles the rival filled, add `min_salary_usd` to keep rows with a stated floor, and read `technology_slugs` for the skills the plan should budget for. Add the market view to your workforce analysis - free tier included. ![](/listly/shape-heart.png) FAQs ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is the difference between workforce analysis and workforce analytics? Workforce analysis is a review with a deliverable: a gap statement for a specific decision and horizon. Workforce analytics is the ongoing practice and tooling, the dashboards, models and data pipelines that make such reviews repeatable. Workforce planning is the step after analysis, where the gap is turned into hiring, training and redeployment decisions. ### What data does workforce analysis use? Internal data first: headcount and cost by role, level and location, tenure, attrition, skills inventory, performance and succession. Then external data for the market view: competitor postings by role and level, advertised pay by location, and the share of postings naming each skill, which show whether a gap can be hired for or must be trained for. ### How does posting data fit into workforce analysis? It is the supply and demand input. Competitor postings show which roles rivals are adding and at what seniority, stated salary ranges show what a role costs to fill per location, and skill shares show which requirements are scarce. JobsPipe returns those as filters on POST /v1/jobs/search: company\_name\_or, job\_seniority\_or, job\_country\_code\_or and min\_salary\_usd. 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