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Job Vacancy Rate by Occupation - Annual

Data from Jan 1998 to Jan 2025

Last updated: 23 Mar 2026, 14:55 SGT

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)

Job Vacancy Rate for a quarter is defined as the total number of job vacancies divided by the total demand for manpower at the end of the quarter. 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 explorer

JobVacancyRatebyOccupationAnnual.csv (110 rows, 6.4 KB)

Year Year (YYYY)	Occupation Text	Job Vacancy Rate Text
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0% clerical, sales and services workers25.5% professionals, managers, executives and technicians25.5% production and transport operators, cleaners and labourers25.5% professionals, managers and executives11.8%	(Null)0.0%
1998	professionals, managers, executives and technicians	1.8
1998	clerical, sales and services workers	2.4
1998	production and transport operators, cleaners and labourers	1.6
1999	professionals, managers, executives and technicians	2.4
1999	clerical, sales and services workers	2.5
1999	production and transport operators, cleaners and labourers	1.7
2000	professionals, managers, executives and technicians	3.2
2000	clerical, sales and services workers	3.1
2000	production and transport operators, cleaners and labourers	2.2
2001	professionals, managers, executives and technicians	1.8

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Occupation	occupation	Text	-	-
Job Vacancy Rate	job_vacancy_rate	Text	percent	-

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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_219448c6a9d45fa2537918335e614003"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

Citation

This dataset can be reused and cited in research publications.

Ministry of Manpower. (2026). Job Vacancy Rate by Occupation - Annual (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved April 17, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_219448c6a9d45fa2537918335e614003/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)