Singapore tops global ranking for job postings with AI requirements: Indeed
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Across the board, job postings continued to decline in August, falling 16.2 per cent year on year.
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SINGAPORE – Singapore recorded the world’s highest proportion of job postings that contain artificial intelligence mentions, new hiring data from Indeed showed.
One in six local job postings referenced AI tools – including machine learning, generative AI and agentic AI – in August, the job search portal said on Sept 24.
Job advertisements for data and analytics roles contained the highest percentage of AI mentions (57 per cent) for the month, despite falling by 15.9 per cent in volume over the three months to end-August.
Software development job postings ranked second in terms of AI mentions (39 per cent), followed by scientific research (35 per cent), and industrial engineering (33 per cent).
Mr Callam Pickering, Indeed’s Asia-Pacific senior economist, said that the frequency of AI mentions in August’s job listings reflects the technology’s rapid adoption in Singapore.
He observed that the proportion of job postings with AI mentions had surpassed 10 per cent for around half of all occupations during the month, reflecting the Republic’s status as a regional tech hub and the relative size of its tech sector compared with that in other countries.
Across the board, job postings continued to decline in August, falling 16.2 per cent year on year.
On a month-on-month basis, the pace of decline slowed, signalling a “modest recovery in hiring activity”, Indeed said.
Postings fell by 1.3 per cent on the month, which was roughly a third of the 4.8 per cent drop observed in July, the job platform said.
The demand for some essential services and care roles rose over the three months to end-August, Indeed data showed.
Job listings for food preparation and service positions topped the list of occupations that saw higher demand, with a 10.7 per cent spike.
This was followed by job postings for roles in the legal (8.8 per cent), personal care and home health (8.1 per cent) and cleaning and sanitation (6.6 per cent) categories.
Meanwhile, job postings related to childcare plunged by 46.5 per cent. Those for veterinary and dental roles decreased by 27.7 per cent and 24.9 per cent, respectively.
Occupations related to the arts and entertainment, sports, insurance and banking and finance also logged a decline in job postings. THE BUSINESS TIMES
