Salaries of software engineers in Singapore hit record high; demand for AI skills to rise in tech sector

SINGAPORE – The men frequently depicted as gawky geeks in movies got the final laugh in modern decades – and most likely all the way to the lender.

Level of competition for tech expertise drove up salaries in the sector in Singapore last yr, however the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) may possibly reshape the sorts of competencies in desire.

In 2022, salaries of software engineers in Singapore surged 7.6 for every cent to an all-time superior, according to an annual tech salary report released on Tuesday.

Median base salaries have been $5,000 for junior engineers, $8,000 for senior engineers and $13,750 for engineering professionals, in accordance to the report by tech expertise platform NodeFlair and technological innovation accelerator Iterative.

At the 90th percentile, pay back cheques arrived at $8,500, $12,000 and $19,000, respectively – triple the earnings of all those in the bottom 10 for each cent.

Other tech careers that noticed major spend bumps in Singapore in 2022 involve cell engineers, blockchain engineers and facts engineers.

Six out of the best 15 most-searched organizations – topped by TikTok’s guardian company ByteDance – paid workforce at the very least 20 for every cent additional than the current market median, mentioned NodeFlair.

Most of the rest spend at least 10 per cent much more, it included.

Mr Ethan Ang, chief government and co-founder of NodeFlair, said the unprecedented need for hugely expert tech professionals is “driving up salaries to document highs”.

“As companies throughout many industries significantly count on technologies to generate development, the benefit of tech expertise has in no way been increased.”

But the “jaw-dropping income offers” thrown at tech personnel in earlier yrs are most likely to taper off, claimed NodeFlair.

Due to the fact November, a lot more than 100,000 tech staff have been laid off globally amid issues about an economic slowdown.

Mr Ang stated the tech field will keep on to confront challenges in attracting, compensating and retaining top rated talent.

The selecting landscape is also set to change, as companies deal with the hottest technological disruption of generative AI tools sparked by the general public release of ChatGPT in November.

Due to the fact ChatGPT’s launch, businesses like Tesla, Meta and TikTok have established up higher-degree AI teams to compete with the Microsoft-connected bot, which can automate responsibilities from filling spreadsheets to getting ready e-mails, itineraries and CEO speeches. It even writes code.

With not ample AI professionals to go round, “we will see companies being open up to selecting application engineers with an fascination in AI, very similar to what we observed in past years during the cryptocurrencies and Internet 3. boom”, claimed NodeFlair co-founder Adrian Goh.