Singapore's infocomm employment growth rate hit a new high of 8.9 per cent in 2007, with the number of employed infocomm manpower reaching 130,400. These were the findings of the Annual Infocomm Manpower Survey 2007 carried out by the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA). In comparison, infocomm manpower growth rates stood at 7.5 per cent in 2006 and 3.1 per cent in 2005.

Infocomm manpower constitutes about 4.8 per cent of the total employed labour force in Singapore. Over half – 56 per cent – worked in infocomm organisations and the rest in end-user organisations.

The three job categories with the highest number of employed infocomm manpower were Infrastructure Support (23,300), Infocomm Sales and Marketing (20,700) and Software Development (18,100). Not surprisingly, these categories also generated the most job vacancies in 2007, with 940 vacancies in Software Development, 740 in Infocomm Sales and Marketing, and 420 in Infrastructure Support. Taking into account the vacancies and employment rates, the survey found that there was a net growth of 11 per cent in infocomm jobs in 2007.

Source: IDA’s Annual Infocomm Manpower Survey 2007

• Key findings of the Annual Infocomm Manpower Survey 2007 are available here.