LinkedIn Industry List: All 434 Industries, Codes and How to Filter by Them

LinkedIn's official industry list is the Industry Codes V2 table that LinkedIn publishes on Microsoft Learn: 434 active industries under 20 top-level sectors, each with a numeric ID. This page lists every one of them by sector, explains why other lists show different totals, and shows how to use the labels when you filter LinkedIn searches – by hand, through an AI agent or in code.

The short version. LinkedIn currently lists 434 industries, grouped under 20 top-level sectors such as Manufacturing, Professional Services, and Technology, Information and Media. LinkedIn's Help centre points members to the same table. Other totals describe something else: Recruiter and Talent Insights show a smaller subset, the original list had 147 entries, and third-party lists differ in scope and how recently they were compiled. Each industry has a stable numeric ID, but its label can change – so store the ID for data work, and use the exact current label when you filter a search. Sales Navigator uses the same taxonomy, Recruiter shows part of it, and LinkedIn's ad targeting uses its own.

Jump to the full list – looking for one industry? Press Ctrl+F (Cmd+F on a Mac) and type its name.

How many industries are on LinkedIn?

Other published totals differ because they cover a different scope or were compiled at a different time. When a list does not add up to 434, check whether it is the old V1 list, the Recruiter subset or a partial copy.

The taxonomy is modelled on NAICS. LinkedIn Help says: "We've updated our industry taxonomy to align with the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) standards." The numbers are LinkedIn's own, though – Microsoft Learn notes that "the industry IDs listed on this page are LinkedIn defined and are different from the industry ID available in the NAICS defined codes."

The full LinkedIn industry list, by sector

The 20 sectors below are LinkedIn's top-level industries; each links to its table. Labels are copied exactly as LinkedIn writes them – spelling, commas and "and" included – because that is the form a search filter expects. "Under" names the industry each one sits beneath. For LinkedIn's one-line description of each industry, see the Microsoft Learn table.

Accommodation Services

Administrative and Support Services

Construction

Consumer Services

Education

Entertainment Providers

Farming, Ranching, Forestry

Financial Services

Government Administration

Holding Companies

Hospitals and Health Care

Manufacturing

Oil, Gas, and Mining

Professional Services

Real Estate and Equipment Rental Services

Retail

Technology, Information and Media

Transportation, Logistics, Supply Chain and Storage

Utilities

Wholesale

V1 vs V2 LinkedIn industry codes

LinkedIn's first industry list (V1) had 147 codes. Its replacement, V2, was rolled out from 2022 – Microsoft Learn's V1 page says "We are migrating to Industry V2 codes and they will be available from April 2022" – and grew the list to the 434 industries above.

Every V1 ID survived into V2, but most of the labels did not: 95 of the 147 now read differently (counting "&" and "and" as the same). The ID stayed; the name changed.

Two practical consequences:

• For data, store the ID. A CRM field or a dataset keyed on "Computer Software" silently stops matching when LinkedIn shows "Software Development"; ID 4 is the same industry in both versions.
• Old names still circulate. The 53 inactive V2 entries carry V1-era labels such as "Automotive" and "Apparel and Fashion". They are kept for history, not offered as options, so a list built from them is out of date.

Sales Navigator, Recruiter and Ads industry lists

• Sales Navigator uses the same taxonomy. Its account search Help links the Industry filter to LinkedIn's industry codes and adds: "when you select an industry filter, accounts are filtered with child industries too" (Sales Navigator Help). The lead search's industry filter is defined without that note, so don't assume a parent industry pulls in its children there. Names shown in the filter can differ slightly from the table.
• Recruiter and Talent Insights offer a subset – 310 labels that "may not include all of the industries" in the full list (Recruiter Help). Picking a top-level label returns candidates mapped to it and everything below, and "members that don't have an associated industry won't appear in the search results."
• LinkedIn Ads targets company industry with "a proprietary taxonomy developed by LinkedIn's team" (Marketing Solutions Help). Check the values in Campaign Manager itself rather than assuming they match this list.

How to choose your industry on a profile or Page

On a profile or a LinkedIn Page you add an industry "from our industry options" (LinkedIn Help): type a name in the Industry field "and select from the options that appear" (LinkedIn Help). Most people pick the industry of the organisation they work for rather than their job function – a recruiter at a software company is usually in Software Development, not Staffing and Recruiting. If your exact industry isn't offered, choose its closest parent from the list above.

Use LinkedIn industries as search filters

The table above is the reference, not a promise that every label is offered on every search surface. Two rules hold everywhere: filter with the label, not the numeric ID, and use the exact current label.

Linked API's people, company, employee, connection and job searches take an industries list, and post search takes author industries. Each search runs on your own LinkedIn account: Linked API types the label into LinkedIn's industry filter and picks from what LinkedIn suggests.

• Matching ignores case and punctuation, and "&" counts as "and", so "IT Services & IT Consulting" finds "IT Services and IT Consulting".
• When nothing matches by name, LinkedIn's first suggestion is taken. That is how a renamed label can still land on its successor, but a vague label can land on a neighbour. Use exact labels from the list.
• On people, company, employee, connection and post searches, and on every Sales Navigator search, an industry LinkedIn offers no option for fails the search with a filterNotApplied error, instead of quietly running a wider search than you asked for.
• Job search is the exception. It is best effort: an industry LinkedIn doesn't offer falls back to LinkedIn's first suggestion, and on accounts with LinkedIn's AI-powered job search, industries can't be applied at all.
• Reading industries back: company results carry LinkedIn's industry text – the V2 name on standard company pages – so you can check what you got. People results carry no industry field.

A company search filtered by two industries, which stops with LinkedIn's message if a label doesn't apply:

import LinkedApi, { LinkedApiError } from "@linkedapi/node";

const linkedapi = new LinkedApi({
  linkedApiToken: "your-linked-api-token",
  identificationToken: "your-identification-token",
});

async function main(): Promise<void> {
  try {
    const workflow = await linkedapi.searchCompanies.execute({
      term: "data platform",
      filter: {
        // Exact labels from LinkedIn's industry list – not the numeric IDs.
        industries: ["Software Development", "IT Services and IT Consulting"],
        locations: ["Germany"],
        sizes: ["51-200"],
      },
      limit: 50,
    });
    const { data, errors } = await linkedapi.searchCompanies.result(workflow.workflowId);
    const notApplied = errors.find(({ type }) => type === "filterNotApplied");
    if (notApplied) {
      // LinkedIn offered no match for a value; the message names the field and value to fix.
      console.error(`Fix the filter: ${notApplied.message}`);
      process.exitCode = 1;
      return;
    }
    if (!data) {
      console.error(`Search failed: ${errors.map(({ message }) => message).join("; ")}`);
      process.exitCode = 1;
      return;
    }
    for (const company of data) {
      console.log(`${company.name} | ${company.industry} | ${company.location}`);
    }
  } catch (caught) {
    if (caught instanceof LinkedApiError) {
      console.error(`Linked API error: ${caught.message}`);
      process.exitCode = 1;
      return;
    }
    throw caught;
  }
}

main();

import sys

from linkedapi import LinkedApi, LinkedApiConfig, LinkedApiError, SearchCompaniesFilter, SearchCompaniesParams

linkedapi = LinkedApi(
    LinkedApiConfig(
        linked_api_token="your-linked-api-token",
        identification_token="your-identification-token",
    )
)

try:
    workflow = linkedapi.search_companies.execute(
        SearchCompaniesParams(
            term="data platform",
            filter=SearchCompaniesFilter(
                # Exact labels from LinkedIn's industry list – not the numeric IDs.
                industries=["Software Development", "IT Services and IT Consulting"],
                locations=["Germany"],
                sizes=["51-200"],
            ),
            limit=50,
        )
    )
    result = linkedapi.search_companies.result(workflow.workflow_id)
except LinkedApiError as caught:
    sys.exit(f"Linked API error: {caught.message}")

not_applied = next((error for error in result.errors if error.type == "filterNotApplied"), None)
if not_applied:
    # LinkedIn offered no match for a value; the message names the field and value to fix.
    sys.exit(f"Fix the filter: {not_applied.message}")
if result.data is None:
    sys.exit("Search failed: " + "; ".join(error.message for error in result.errors))

for company in result.data:
    print(f"{company.name} | {company.industry} | {company.location}")

People, company and post searches need a keyword or a pasted search URL alongside their filters; see searching for companies and searching for people for the full parameter lists.

With an AI agent, you name the industry in plain language – "find software development companies in Germany with 51 to 200 employees" – and the agent passes the labels through the search tools of the MCP server or the agent-friendly CLI. One limitation today: the CLI's industry flag splits its value on commas, so labels that contain one, such as "Technology, Information and Internet", can't be passed through the CLI yet. Use the SDKs or the MCP server for those. For agent workflows beyond search, see the LinkedIn AI agent guide.

To decide which filters exist on which LinkedIn plan, see our guide to LinkedIn advanced search; to build tighter keyword searches around an industry, see Boolean search. Company records with their industry, size and employees are covered in the LinkedIn company scraper guide, and turning a search into a spreadsheet in how to export LinkedIn search results and, for Sales Navigator, how to export leads from Sales Navigator.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Build it in, or hand it to an agent

Filter by industry inside your own product, CRM or pipeline with the REST API, the Node and Python SDKs or the shell CLI. Or let an AI agent run the same searches out of the box through the MCP server, the agent-friendly CLI or a ready-made skill, on your own LinkedIn account. Plans are flat per seat, from $49/mo billed annually – see pricing.

Facts verified 4 November 2026 – the industry list, counts and V1 labels checked against Microsoft Learn's Industry Codes tables, and the Sales Navigator, Recruiter, Ads and member guidance against LinkedIn's Help centre, on that date.