AI roles command wage premiums across sectors in Singapore, starting at 32%, underscoring AI as a key driver of talent value: PwC’s AI Job Barometer

SINGAPORE, 15 June 2026 – AI-related roles in Singapore command wage premiums across key sectors analysed, underscoring how demand for AI skills is reshaping hiring, pay, and workforce strategies as organisations accelerate adoption, according to PwC’s 2026 Global AI Jobs Barometer – Singapore edition. In 2025, all sectors surveyed showed wage premiums for AI-related jobs starting at 32%, with the Government and Public Sector offering up to 107% premiums and Consumer Markets showing 96% premiums.

The analysis, covering approximately 1.6 million Singapore job postings from January to December 2025, builds on data from 2012 to 2024, forms part of PwC’s 2026 Global AI Jobs Barometer. This global study spans more than one billion postings across six continents to examine how AI is reshaping jobs, skills, wages and labour productivity.

Of the 1.6 million Singapore job postings analysed, more than half (around 897,000) were for occupations with higher AI exposure—that is, roles whose core tasks and required abilities are more likely to be affected, augmented, or reshaped by AI capabilities. Within AI-related hiring, demand was concentrated in AI user roles, which accounted for 82% of all AI job postings, significantly outnumbered postings for AI developer roles[1].

Anthony Dias, AI Hub Leader, PwC Singapore, said:

“The findings suggest that AI is no longer sitting at the edge of the organisation — it is being embedded into workflows, roles, and decision-making across the workforce. That makes AI fluency the name of the game.

“As employers scale adoption, they need to build governance, responsible AI practices, and risk safeguards that allow people to use AI with trust and confidence. This is not about replacing human judgement but strengthening it. It’s about helping employees understand when to leverage AI, when to challenge it, and how to apply it responsibly in ways that build trust with employers, clients, and stakeholders.”

The report also finds a positive correlation (+0.30 on a scale from zero to +1) between AI occupation exposure and net skills change, indicating that roles with higher AI exposure tend to see greater changes in the skills required.

In Singapore, the Technology, Media and Telecommunications industry leads in AI job postings, accounting for 18.9% of postings across the sectors analysed), followed by the Government and Public Sector (13.5%, and Financial Services (12.2%). This suggests that demand for AI roles is stronger among service-intensive and knowledge-based sectors.

Kwek So Cheer, Partner, Digital Solutions, PwC Singapore, said:

“The fact that 82% of AI-related job postings are for AI user roles, not specialists, tells us something important, that Singapore is moving toward a mass AI-enabled workforce, which can unlock significant economic gains.

“The wage premiums we are seeing reflect the value organisations place on AI capabilities, but the bigger opportunity lies in equipping the broader workforce, across roles and seniority levels, to apply AI in their day-to-day work. That's how we turn AI adoption into shared economic gains, higher-value jobs, and stronger long-term resilience, for Singapore's people and businesses.”

For more information or to access the full findings, please visit our webpage here.

[1] AI user and AI developer job roles are determined as jobs requiring familiarity with AI (e.g. AI literacy, prompt engineering) and applied AI skills (e.g. data analytics, ML algorithms) for AI user jobs, and advanced AI skills (e.g. MLOps) for AI developer jobs.

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About the study

PwC’s 2026 Global AI Jobs Barometer is a global study covering more than one billion job postings across six continents, examining how AI is reshaping jobs, skills, wages, and labour productivity. The Singapore edition analyses approximately 1.6 million job postings from January to December 2025, drawing on longitudinal data from 2012 to 2024. AI exposure is measured as the degree to which an occupation’s core tasks and abilities are exposed to AI capabilities. AI wage premiums represent the difference between average advertised wages in AI-related postings and average advertised wages in non-AI postings within the same sector.