TalentBuild AISingapore hiring pulse
Where jobs are opening, where layoffs are happening, and how tight the market is — straight from the Ministry of Manpower's quarterly labour data, not job-board guesses.
Latest data: Q4 2025
Job vacancies per unemployed person
1.58
Q4 2024: 1.57. Above 1 means more openings than unemployed people.
Retrenched workers back in work within 12 months
68.9%
Q4 2024: 69.1%.
Most job openings
Construction
13,200 vacancies in Q4 2025
Most retrenchments
Wholesale and retail trade
790 employees retrenched in Q4 2025
Where the job openings are
Job vacancies by industry, Q4 2025, with change against Q4 2024.
- Construction13,200
+57% vs last year
- Manufacturing8,000
-2% vs last year
- Professional services6,900
+19% vs last year
- Public administration and education6,900
-21% vs last year
- Information and communications5,800
+4% vs last year
- Accommodation and food services5,400
-18% vs last year
- Administrative and support services5,400
-2% vs last year
- Wholesale and retail trade5,200
-21% vs last year
- Health and social services5,100
-15% vs last year
- Financial and insurance services4,900
-8% vs last year
- Transportation and storage4,100
+8% vs last year
- Other community and personal services2,100
+11% vs last year
- Real estate services1,400
-7% vs last year
- Arts, entertainment and recreation600
-40% vs last year
Where layoffs are happening
Employees retrenched by industry in Q4 2025. “n/a” means the figure is withheld in the source.
- Wholesale and retail trade790
- Manufacturing570
- Financial and insurance services540
- Information and communications480
- Professional services410
- Transportation and storage190
- Health and social services150
- Construction140
- Administrative and support services130
- Accommodation and food services70
- Other community and personal services50
- Real estate services40
- Public administration and education30
- Arts, entertainment and recreation20
Openings per unemployed person
Recent quarters. Moves around quarter to quarter.
Back in work within 12 months
Retrenched workers who found a job, recent quarters.
What this means for your search
- Industries with many openings and falling retrenchments are the easiest places to start — but check your own niche, since broad industries hide a lot of variation.
- A high-retrenchment industry isn't closed to you. It usually means more competition, so tailor your resume harder and lean on specific results.
- Pair this with the salary guide to see what roles in each industry actually pay before you negotiate.
Turn the market into a plan
See what roles in the industries you're targeting actually pay, then check how your resume reads against a real job.
How to read this. Counts are rounded in the source and cover Singapore as a whole — there is no regional split in this data, and your specific niche can behave differently from its industry. Year-on-year comparisons use the same quarter last year to avoid seasonal swings. A large number of retrenchments in an industry reflects its size as well as its health.
Contains information from the datasets Number of Job Vacancy by Industry - Quarterly; Number of Retrenched Employees by Industry - Quarterly; Job Vacancy to Unemployed Person Ratio - Quarterly; Rate of Re-entry Into Employment (Within 12 Months Post-Retrenchment) - Quarterly accessed from data.gov.sg, made available under the terms of the Singapore Open Data Licence version 1.0.