SINGAPORE: Newly created roles formed 49.3 per cent of the job vacancies available in 2025, an increase from the year before, a report from the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) showed on Friday (Mar 20).
Singapore saw an annual average of 75,900 available job vacancies in 2025.
These newly created positions were mainly generated by business expansion. New positions resulting from the restructuring or redesigning of jobs remained a small share, said the ministry in its annual job vacancies report.
In 2024, newly created roles formed 45.7 per cent of the vacancies.
Last year, information and communications (74.2 per cent), professional services (58.2 per cent) and financial and insurance services (54 per cent) were among sectors with shares of newly created vacancies that were above the overall average of 49.3 per cent.
Of the job vacancies last year, 56.3 per cent were for professional, manager, executive and technician (PMET) roles, while the other 43.7 per cent were for non-PMET roles such as drivers, cooks and construction workers.
The share of available PMET roles increased over the last decade, from 45.4 per cent in 2015.
