# UK Data Service

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/uk-data-service/  
**Website:** https://ukdataservice.ac.uk  
**APIs profiled:** 1

The UK Data Service provides trusted access to the United Kingdom’s largest collection of economic, population and social research data for teaching, learning and public benefit. It offers data discovery, deposit, and a learning hub with training resources, supporting researchers, educators and policymakers to explore and analyse high-quality datasets across a wide range of disciplines.

## Kin Score — 10.8 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-11-06 under rubric 0.27.0. Trend: falling (-6.9 from 17.7).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 58.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 14.3 |
| Access Clarity | 17.1 |

Regulatory layer — **Education & Research**: 9.8 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |
| Pagination Ratio | na |
| Operation Distinctiveness | na |
| MCP Tool Quality | na |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## APIs (1)

- **UK Data Service API** — Provides programmatic access to UK Data Service data and services. Documentation is available at the Learning Hub. No public machine‑readable contract was found.

## Security (1)

- **Uk Data Service Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Data, Research, Education, United Kingdom

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/uk-data-service/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.