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Singapore hiring activity from Hacker News "Who's Hiring" threads.

Postings · Sep 2026+750%3-mo momentum
9
postings
this month
12-Mo Trend · 3-mo rollingOct '25 → Sep '26
0.3333 low3-mo avg · 410.3333 high
Rank · SG
#1of 1 SG cities
Remote-friendly · This month
100%0 pts vs SG
Share of SG postings
100.0%9 of 9
3-Mo momentum
Rising+750% vs prior 3 mo
§ 00Hiring Volume

Pulling back alongside the Singapore baseline.

Annual totals for the last five years — every year shown is complete except 2026, hatched because it is still in progress.

Full yearPartial yearAll-time peak
All-time postings
2,533since 2011 · 186 months
+168% YoY2025 vs 2024
ALL-TIME PEAK
407
'22
95
'23
41
'24
110
'25
22
'26
All-time total
2,533186 months
↑ Best year
2022407
↓ Worst full year
201217
Latest full year
2025+168% YoY
§ 01Compensation

Senior pay disclosure is still thin in Singapore.

Median bands from the 7 Singapore postings that disclosed USD pay across 2023–Present.

Range by seniority · 2023–PresentSenior: not enough disclosed pay · n=3 · need 10
Senior— n=3
Staff+— n=1

Bar = p25 to p75 · tick on Senior = median. Senior & Staff+ shown hatched below the 10-sample floor.

§ 02Work Model

9 points less remote-friendly than the Singapore baseline.

Trailing-12-month split, plus the yearly remote / hybrid / onsite mix all the way back.

Remote-friendly · Trailing 12 months
69%
−9 ptsvs SG · 78%
Remote
27%
Hybrid
42%
Onsite-only
31%
Work-model mix · by year
Remote share is cooling off in '26
RemoteHybridOnsite
'12
100% rem.
'13
50% rem.
'14
100% rem.
'15
43% rem.
'16
22% rem.
'17
21% rem.
'18
23% rem.
'19
21% rem.
'20
72% rem.
'21
99% rem.
'22
97% rem.
'23
96% rem.
'24
100% rem.
'25
68% rem.
'26
64% rem.
Trailing 12 months · Singapore vs SG
Singapore69% remote-friendly
SG average78% remote-friendly
§ 03City Signature

Machine Learning tops Singapore's skill mentions over the last 12 months.

Keywords counted across 48 Singapore hiring posts. Posts frequently list multiple skills.

#01
Top SkillMachine Learning
27mentions↑ 19%
Mentions · Last 12 Months
OCT '2556% of postingsSEP '26
Leaderboardlast 12 mo
01Machine Learning+19%27
02Python+101%26
03React+79%24
04TypeScript+183%17
05Go+507%14
06OCaml−58%7
07Amazon Web Services (AWS)−59%6
08MySQL−59%6
09Node.js−46%6
10PyTorch−46%6
Movers · 12-month change
What’s moving
Trending↗
  • 01Go+507%
  • 02TypeScript+183%
  • 03Python+101%
  • 04React+79%
Cooling↘
  • 01JavaScript−76%
  • 02Amazon Web Services (AWS)−59%
  • 03MySQL−59%
  • 04OCaml−58%

71% of jobs include at least one technical skill · share of postings mentioning the skill (12 months through Sep 2026)

Role mix · Singapore vs SGShare of postings by role category, past 3 years
SingaporeSG baseline
Data Ml
match
18%
17%
+1 pts1.1×
Design
match
4%
3%
+1 pts1.2×
Engineering
match
61%
63%
−2 pts1.0×
Executive
match
2%
2%
−0 pts0.9×
Finance Accounting
match
1%
1%
−0 pts0.9×
Operations
match
1%
0%
+1 pts—
Other
match
7%
8%
−1 pts0.9×
Product
match
6%
6%
0 pts1.0×
Sales
match
1%
1%
−0 pts0.9×