Singapore's appetite for AI talent seems to be growing faster than it can actually produce, as artificial intelligence-related job listings in Singapore increased by 2% over the past year, defying a challenging global hiring environment and signaling continued demand for workers with AI skills, according to PwC's 2026 AI Jobs Barometer.
According to the report, AI-related roles accounted for 5.3% of all job postings in Singapore in 2025, up from 3.3% a year earlier, representing roughly 30,000 additional job listings.
The findings are based on an analysis of around 1.6 million Singapore job postings from January to December 2025 and form part of a global study examining more than one billion job advertisements across six continents.
What the numbers say about AI jobs
Despite widespread layoffs and restructuring across the tech industry, hiring trends in AI are moving in a different direction. Tech layoffs alone reached about 124,000 in 2025, according to Layoffs.fyi. Yet during the same period, AI-related job postings climbed to roughly 84,000, with demand spreading beyond traditional tech firms into other industries.
