2026 Global AI Jobs Barometer – Singapore edition

The analysis of about 1.6 million Singapore job postings from January to December 2025, building on data from 2012 to 2024, forms part of PwC’s 2026 Global AI Jobs Barometer, a global study covering more than one billion postings across six continents on how AI is reshaping jobs, skills, wages, and labour productivity.

AI roles are moving into the mainstream in Singapore. Despite the challenging global job market, the number of job postings for roles requiring AI skills has risen worldwide, with an AI share of 5.3% in Singapore in 2025, up from the prior year's 3.3%, reflecting an increase of roughly 30,000 postings compared to 2024.

AI is leading many firms to create jobs which require AI as a skill. By measuring AI exposure—the degree to which an occupation’s core tasks and abilities are exposed to AI capabilities—we find a clear pattern: the more AI-exposed an occupation is, the higher the number of total job postings.

As firms roll out AI across their organisations, demand for new skills is also on the rise. There has been a +0.30 correlation between AI occupation exposure and net skills change between 2019 and 2025, indicating that occupations with higher AI exposure are generally more likely to show greater net skill change. This is also evident in hiring patterns, where roles with higher AI exposure make up over half of overall job postings.

In addition, findings also suggest that roles are being reconfigured, rather than phased out, as demand for AI-related jobs rose to 84,000 in 2025 from the prior year (see Chart 1). Furthermore, external data from the Adoption of Artificial Intelligence Among Firms report by the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) points to the same broader shift, with 18.9% of firms beginning to redesign job functions and 13.9% creating new roles related to AI in Q1 2026.¹

In 2026, Singapore’s government introduced AI-related measures, such as the national AI Council, the National AI Impact Programme, and AI missions to drive AI adoption and fluency across sectors. Against this backdrop, we are likely to see an ongoing need for job redesign and workforce upskilling.

In the chart below, there is a clear positive relationship between AI exposure and the number of new skills required within occupations. While some of this increase in new skills reflects higher posting volumes in more AI-exposed occupations, this aligns with underlying job growth and evolution, as reflected in the skill changes observed across AI-exposed occupations in Chart 3.

As organisations integrate AI in their operations, the roles being created or reshaped will increasingly need to account for the responsible use of AI in practice. Adopting approaches such as PwC's AI Governance Framework can help companies manage risks and ensure AI is used in a way that is sound and trusted.

With AI's increasing presence in the workforce, there's growth in demand for AI user and developer roles. The biggest growth has been in AI user roles, while demand for AI developers has seen a smaller increase. AI user roles accounted for the bulk of the increase (about +26,000), while AI developer roles also expanded (around +4,200) in 2025 compared to the prior year. Overall, around 82% of AI-related job postings are for AI user roles, while the remaining are for AI developers. This reflects a broader AI transition, which is central to Singapore’s workforce transformation journey. It also points to AI moving beyond specialist roles into a wider range of non-tech and hybrid positions, many of which are beginning to require working fluency with AI tools.

From a sector-focused perspective, Financial Services and Tech, Media and Telecom accounted for the largest share of all job postings in Singapore in 2025. Both sectors were also among those with the highest AI adoption rates according to the MOM report,² suggesting that highly digital and knowledge-intensive activities play a prominent role in Singapore’s labour market. In our analysis, when it came to AI-specific job postings by sector, we see an uptick in AI job postings across all sectors, led by Tech, Media and Telecom, Government and Public Sector, and Financial Services. This indicates that the hiring demand for roles requiring AI skills was highest within these three sectors.

When it came to AI wage premiums—the difference between average advertised wages in AI-related postings and average advertised wages in non-AI postings within the same sector—we see all sectors surveyed placing wage premiums on AI jobs. Consumer Markets and the Government and Public Sector stand out, which may reflect a more targeted demand for specialised roles. In 2025, the Government and Public Sector showed a 107% wage premium for AI roles, while Consumer Markets provided a 96% AI wage premium.

In sectors where AI use is broad-based, demand may be high but pay differentials more contained as these capabilities become part of everyday roles. By contrast, sectors with lower hiring volumes may still show higher wage premiums where demand is concentrated in more specialised roles.

The rising share of AI‑related job postings signals a renewed, economy‑wide appetite for adoption. As organisations in Singapore increasingly move from pilots to scale, the labour market is starting to reflect this shift: roles are evolving and demand for AI skills is growing.

References
_{¹ Adoption of Artificial Intelligence Among Firms, Ministry of Manpower, 30 April 2026.
² Ibid.}