Tech jobs that saw significant pay bumps in Singapore last year include mobile engineers, blockchain engineers and data engineers. PHOTO: REUTERSThe guys often depicted as gawky geeks in movies got the last laugh in recent years – and probably all the way to the bank.
At the 90th percentile, pay cheques reached $8,500, $12,000 and $19,000, respectively – triple the earnings of those in the bottom 10 per cent. But the “jaw-dropping salary offers” thrown at tech workers in previous years are likely to taper off, said NodeFlair. With not enough AI experts to go round, “we will see companies being open to hiring software engineers with an interest in AI, similar to what we observed in previous years during the cryptocurrencies and Web 3.0 boom”, said NodeFlair co-founder Adrian Goh.
“With AI transforming customer experience management, the skills required for data analytics are evolving as well,” he said.