Singapore’s digital economy grew to S$144.1 billion in 2025, or 19.3 per cent of GDP, up from 18.8 per cent in 2024, according to the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA).
The 2024 figure has been revised to S$136.5 billion following refinements to national accounts statistics by the Singapore Department of Statistics.
IMDA’s Singapore Digital Economy (SGDE) Report 2026 found that sectors outside information and communications (I&C) remain the main growth driver, contributing more than two-thirds of the total. Their value-added from digitalisation grew 3.6 per cent year on year to S$97.0 billion, while the I&C sector expanded 6.1 per cent to S$47.1 billion.
Tech jobs grow fastest outside the tech industry
Tech employment rose 3.8 per cent to 222,200 jobs in 2025. Growth was led by non-I&C sectors at 5.3 per cent, compared with 1.8 per cent in the I&C sector. AI and data roles, and cybersecurity roles, are among the fastest-growing.
The median monthly wage for resident tech workers was S$8,000, 60 per cent higher than the overall resident median of S$5,000.
AI adoption deepens among enterprises
AI adoption among small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) rose from 14.5 per cent to 23.4 per cent. Among large local enterprises, it rose from 62.5 per cent to 70.4 per cent. The share of non-adopters planning to adopt AI within 12 months more than doubled, from 5.6 per cent in 2023 to 12.1 per cent in 2025.
Close to nine in 10 AI-adopting enterprises use commercial off-the-shelf AI tools, and 28.3 per cent customise them. Two in five are expanding deployment or have fully integrated AI across the enterprise. Among adopters, 87.6 per cent cited productivity and process improvement as a key benefit, and 44 per cent cited cost reduction.
Workers use AI, but training lags
About 86 per cent of workers use AI at work in 2026, up from 78 per cent in 2025. Content creation is the most common use at 77 per cent, followed by process automation at around two-thirds and data exploration and analytics at more than half.
Around 68 per cent of workers see a need to upskill or reskill in AI, but only 37 per cent attended AI-related training in the past 12 months. About 35 per cent of those who did not attend said their employers had not nominated them, a similar share cited a lack of time, and about one in four were unsure which course suited them.
IMDA is expanding its TechSkills Accelerator (TeSA) under the National AI Impact Programme (NAIIP). TeSA will upskill 40,000 tech professionals over the next three years in advanced AI skills, including agentic AI. NAIIP will train 100,000 professionals in domain-specific AI skills by 2029, with rollout under way in accountancy and law.
IMDA Chief Executive Ng Cher Pong said the agency remains committed to “equipping workers with practical, domain-specific AI skills” to maintain Singapore’s competitive edge.
