Singapore’s 15 fastest-growing jobs for 2023, according to LinkedIn

Jobs that help companies digitize and develop amid economic volatility are on the rise in Singapore, according to LinkedIn.

Its newest Jobs on the Rise data revealed spikes in hiring for progress specialists, technical jobs and health-care professionals in Asia — amongst different jobs anticipated to broaden hiring properly into 2023. 

Researchers from LinkedIn examined jobs from January 2018 to July 2022 to calculate the expansion fee for every job title in a particular nation. 

LinkedIn added that for a job to be ranked, a job title wants to see constant progress on the platform during the last 5 years, in addition to have “grown to a significant measurement” by 2022.

Workers can use this checklist to outline their subsequent transfer of their careers and “prepare for the future world of work,” it added.

LinkedIn’s report discovered that the proportion of paid job postings that supply a remote-work possibility has dropped from 7.8% in December 2021 to 4.1% in the identical interval final 12 months. 

Guy Berger, its principal economist stated in another report final 12 months that the financial local weather is inflicting some corporations to “pull again on the flexibility” launched through the pandemic.

What’s on the climb, nevertheless, are technical or engineering roles — corresponding to cloud engineer, cybersecurity engineer, back-end developer and synthetic intelligence engineer.

Such jobs make up virtually half of LinkedIn’s checklist in Singapore. 

“The progress of AI, elevated give attention to cybersecurity and continued shift in the direction of digital is main to progress in technical jobs,” stated Pooja Chhabria, profession skilled and head of editorial for Asia-Pacific at LinkedIn.

It can also be “not surprising” for tech jobs to dominate Singapore’s checklist, she added, on condition that the nation has constructed a powerful presence as a startup vacation spot. 

“From a geographical perspective, Singapore is an efficient base for tech corporations who’re wanting to enter South-East Asia and different APAC markets.” 

However, waves of tech layoffs were reported in Southeast Asia final 12 months amid difficult macroeconomic situations, together with Indonesia’s GoTo Group, Singapore’s Sea Group and Carousell. 

Chhabria stays optimistic, saying that this shall be a transition 12 months for the tech trade and will “return to extra regular hiring ranges.”

“Overall demand for employees stays sturdy with employees transitioning to different jobs inside and throughout the trade,” she added.

“Tech jobs do not simply serve the tech sector however are additionally in demand in different sectors as they proceed to spend money on digital transformation.”

Much like India, jobs that target enterprise progress and acquisition of recent prospects are additionally rising, stated LinkedIn. 

Such jobs — which Chhabria stated assist “corporations do extra with much less” in instances of financial uncertainty — embody gross sales growth, enterprise growth and demand technology. 

Here’s the complete checklist of Singapore’s jobs on the rise in 2023, according to LinkedIn:

Related job titles: Business growth consultant

Most widespread expertise: Lead technology, gross sales prospecting, enterprise growth

Most widespread industries: Technology and media, skilled companies, monetary companies

Median years of prior expertise: 2.8 

Remote job availability: 19.4%

Related job titles: Cloud developer

Most widespread expertise: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Terraform

Most widespread industries: Professional companies, manufacturing, monetary companies

Median years of prior expertise: 3.7 

Remote job availability:  5.6%

Related job titles: Account director, account govt or account supervisor

Most widespread expertise: Enterprise expertise gross sales, resolution promoting, consultative promoting

Most widespread industries: Technology and media, skilled companies, schooling

Median years of prior expertise: 5.3

Remote job availability: 17.7%

Most widespread expertise: Health care, nursing, communication

Most widespread industries: Hospitals and well being care, client companies, leisure suppliers

Median years of prior expertise: 1.8

Remote job availability: N/A

Related job titles: Cybersecurity specialist

Most widespread expertise: Cybersecurity, data safety, community safety 

Most widespread industries: Professional companies, manufacturing, expertise and media

Median years of prior expertise: 2.9

Remote job availability: 4%

Most widespread expertise: Site reliability engineering, KubernetesGo (programming language)

Most widespread industries: Financial companies, expertise and media, skilled companies

Median years of prior expertise: 5

Remote job availability: 12.6%

Related job titles: Back-end engineer

Most widespread expertise: Go (programming language), Redis, Python (programming language) 

Most widespread industries: Technology and media, skilled companies, monetary companies

Median years of prior expertise: 2.8

Remote job availability: 14.4%

Most widespread expertise: Information safety, vulnerability evaluation, penetration testing 

Most widespread industries: Professional companies, expertise and media, administrative and help companies

Median years of prior expertise: 3.4

Remote job availability: 4.9%

Related job titles: Technical help specialist

Most widespread expertise: Account administration, cloud computing, resolution structure 

Most widespread industries: Professional companies, expertise and media, monetary companies

Median years of prior expertise: 4.9

Remote job availability: 20.6%

Related job titles: Customer success supervisor

Most widespread expertise: Customer relationship administration, account administration, buyer retention 

Most widespread industries: Technology and media, skilled companies, monetary companies

Median years of prior expertise: 4.2

Remote job availability: 5.6%

Most widespread expertise: TensorFlow, Deep Learning, PyTorch

Most widespread industries: Technology and media, manufacturing, monetary companies 

Median years of prior expertise: 2.6

Remote job availability: 4.5%

Most widespread expertise: Computer Vision, PyTorch, Deep Learning

Most widespread industries: Professional companies, expertise and media, manufacturing 

Median years of prior expertise: 2.4

Remote job availability: 3.7%

Related job titles: DevOps developer

Most widespread expertise: DevOps, Kubernetes Ansible

Most widespread industries: Professional companies, expertise and media, monetary companies

Median years of prior expertise: 4.3

Remote job availability: 7.4%

Related job titles: Investment banking affiliate

Most widespread expertise: Investments, non-public fairness, monetary modeling

Most widespread industries: Financial companies, skilled companies, actual property and gear rental companies

Median years of prior expertise: 2.5

Remote job availability: 1.9%