Nearly a quarter of postings on the employment website now mention artificial intelligence
[SINGAPORE] Job postings on employment website Indeed rose for a third consecutive month in January, signalling a potential turning point for the labour market after a year of cooling.
While postings in January were down 11.3 per cent year on year, they reached their highest level since June 2025, a report by Indeed last Wednesday (Mar 4) showed.
Despite the year-on-year drop, Indeed described Singapore’s job market as “incredibly tight”, indicating that demand for labour remains high relative to the available workforce.
The yearly decline instead largely reflects a normalisation from the post-pandemic hiring boom, it said.
Indeed also noted that while vacancy levels have fallen 43 per cent from their peak in July 2022, they remain “sufficiently high to keep the unemployment rate low”, sitting 38 per cent above pre-pandemic levels.
Broad-based recovery
The recovery in recent months has been widespread, with postings on Indeed rising in nearly 60 per cent of occupational categories over the past three months.
