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Number of Job Vacancy by Industry - Annual

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)

Source: Labour Market Survey, Manpower Research & Statistics Department, MOM Before 2006, data pertain to private sector establishments (each with at least 25 employees). From 2006 onwards, it also includes the public sector.

Data from 1998 to 2025

Last updated 5 months ago (23 Mar 2026)

Data explorer

NumberofJobVacancybyIndustryAnnual.csv (1.2K rows, 45.2 KB)

Year Year (YYYY)	Industry Text	Job Vacancy Text
(Null)0.0% 20003.7% 20013.7% 20023.7% 20033.7%	(Null)0.0% others2.4% construction2.4% retail trade2.4% manufacturing2.4%	(Null)0.2% 4005.4% 5005.5% 6004.9% 7005.5%
1998	manufacturing	5200
1998	food, beverages and tobacco	200
1998	textile and wearing apparel	400
1998	paper products and publishing	200
1998	petroleum and chemical products	200
1998	rubber and plastic products	300
1998	fabricated metal products	400
1998	machinery and equipment	600
1998	electrical products	100
1998	electronic products	1600

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Industry	industry	Text	-	-
Job Vacancy	job_vacancy	Text	-	-

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_01966fdb498fa7fa2863635e25539693"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

Citation

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Ministry of Manpower. (2026). Number of Job Vacancy by Industry - Annual (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 10, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_01966fdb498fa7fa2863635e25539693/view

About this dataset

Contact

ng_li_mei@mom.gov.sg samantha_teo@mom.gov.sg

Created on

23 Mar 2026

Licence

Free forever for personal or commercial use, under the Open Data Licence.

Agency

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)