ICT labour market brief
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At a glance
Four headline indicators. They cover different periods, so each card shows its own.
Tech professionals in Singapore, all industries
Share of tech job postings asking for at least one AI skill
Retrenchments across all industries
Median gross monthly salary, polytechnic Information & Digital Technologies cluster
Demand for tech talent
IMDA counts people working in tech roles across all industries.
Tech workforce by year
Number of tech professionals, all industries.
Where tech jobs grew in 2025
Growth in tech employment inside and outside the ICT sector. — of tech professionals now work outside it.
Median monthly wage, resident tech workers
Tech postings asking for two or more AI skills
Information and communications technology (ICT) industry
ICT industry figures cover everyone working in ICT firms, not only tech roles, and leave out tech roles in other industries.
ICT job vacancies
ICT job vacancies for PMETs
ICT retrenchments
Net Employment Outlook, Tech & IT Services
ICT firms: employment forecast, net balance
ICT firms: business outlook, net balance
Net weighted balance is the share of firms expecting an increase minus the share expecting a decrease. Business outlook covers the next six months. Trend lines run from the 1Q 2019 survey.
ICT job vacancies by quarter
All occupations, end of each quarter. MOM, via data.gov.sg.
ICT retrenchments by quarter
MOM, via data.gov.sg.
ICT vacancies that were newly created positions
ICT firms that have adopted AI
National context
Whole-economy measures. They show how the wider labour market is changing, not demand for ICT roles.
National retrenchments by quarter
All industries. 4Q 2025 is not shown. 3Q 2026 is preliminary (lighter bar).
Job vacancies per unemployed person
Entry-level PMET vacancies
Retrenched residents back in work within six months
Hiring outlook, all industries
MOM business expectations polls and the ManpowerGroup survey of Singapore employers. These cover all industries.
Firms expecting to hire in the next three months
Firms expecting to retrench in the next three months
Job vacancies, all industries
Net Employment Outlook, Singapore
Employers hiring more early-career staff than a year ago
Employers hiring fewer early-career staff than a year ago
Monthly signals
This section brings together monthly unemployment and employer announcements. They may show changes before the next official release. The official figures elsewhere on this page remain the reference.
Unemployment rate by month
MOM, seasonally adjusted. September is preliminary.
Hiring and layoff announcements in Singapore
Named employers expanding or cutting tech teams, as reported in the news. A list of events, not a statistic.
Graduate outcomes
Polytechnic graduates
Full-time permanent employment, all polytechnic clusters
Share of graduates in the labour force, about six months after final exams or NS. The public release does not give this rate by cluster.
Median gross monthly salary, polytechnic clusters
Information & Digital Technologies cluster against all clusters. Full-time permanent jobs. Fresh and post-NS graduates combined.
University graduates
Full-time permanent employment, autonomous universities
Share of fresh graduates in the labour force. Information & Digital Technologies cluster against all courses.
Median gross monthly salary, autonomous universities
Fresh graduates in full-time permanent jobs. All courses is shown for 2025 only.
Policy and funding
Official announcements on workforce, skills, CET funding and AI training, newest first, with the date each takes effect.
Data and method
A weekly check looks for new releases. Flagged figures are reviewed before publication, and some MOM figures are added by hand. A failed check leaves the last verified figures in place and is recorded in the log. Release date, last check and last data update are shown separately.
Source freshness
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Refresh log
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Definitions and what is left out
- Tech professionals
- IMDA's count of people in tech occupations in all industries, including banks, manufacturers and government.
- ICT (information and communications technology) industry
- The industry that MOM and SingStat call "Information & Communications" in their tables. It covers all staff of ICT firms, tech and non-tech.
- Full-time permanent employment
- At least 35 hours a week and not temporary, including contracts of one year or more.
- Secured employment
- Employed, accepted a job offer and starting later, or taking active steps to start a business.
- Median gross monthly salary
- Among graduates in full-time permanent jobs. Includes basic pay, fixed allowances and overtime; excludes bonuses.
An independent research project by Shamim Akhtar. It brings together published figures from MOM, IMDA, SingStat, the graduate employment surveys and official newsrooms, and is checked for new releases every week. It shows data only and does not make recommendations.