The Strategic Skills List is drawn up following consultations with industry and other government agencies. It lists the skills for which there is expected to be strong industry demand in the coming years.
Job seekers can use this list to help plan their career. In view of the expected demand for, and shortage of people with such skills, the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) will also accord added consideration to Employment Pass/S Pass applicants possessing such skills.
MOM will regularly update the Strategic Skills List to take into account broader labour market trends and information.
INDUSTRY | OCCUPATION |
Biomedical | 1. Chemist |
2. Production Engineer |
3. Quality Assurance Engineer |
4. Quality Controller/Quality Control Engineer |
Chemicals | 5. Chemical/Process Engineer |
6. Chemist |
7. Instrument Engineer |
8. Process Control Engineer |
Electronics | 9. IC Designer |
10. Media Engineer |
11. Wafer Fabrication Engineer |
Engineering & Environmental Services | 12. Environmental Engineer |
13. Instrument Engineer |
14. Materials Engineer |
15. Planning Engineer |
16. Process Engineer |
17. Process Control Engineer |
18. Project Engineer/Manager |
19. Research Scientist |
Finance | 20. Asset Securitisation Structurer |
21. Compliance Officer |
22. IT Development Officer |
23. Operations Officer |
24. Private Banker |
25. Product Controllers/Risk Managers/Analyst |
Healthcare | 26. Auditory Verbal Therapist |
27. Clinical Audiologist |
28. Clinical Laboratory Technician/Medical Technologist |
29. Doctor |
30. Dietician |
31. Nurse |
32. Occupational Therapist |
33. Pharmacist |
34. Physiotherapist |
35. Podiatrist |
36. Radiographer |
37. Radiation Therapist |
38. Respiratory Therapist Speech |
39. Speech Therapist |
Info-communications & Digital Media | 40. Applications Developer |
41. Animator |
42. Computer Graphics Artist |
43. Game Designer |
44. Game Developer |
45. Game Programmer |
46. Interactive and Digital Media Producer/Production Manager |
47. Network Engineer/Analyst/Manager |
48. Radio Frequency Engineer |
49. Solutions Architect |
Maritime/Marine & Offshore | 50. Designer Engineer |
51. Geologist |
52. Geophysicist |
53. Geoscientist |
54. Marine Engineer |
55. Naval Architect |
56. Petroleum Engineer |
57. Process Engineer |
58. Project Manager |
59. Reservoir Engineer |
60. Well Engineer |
Others | 61. Creative Director |
62. Embedded System Engineer |
63. Nano-Engineer |
64. Rearch & Development Engineer |
65. Software Engineer |
66. Research Scientists and Engineers/Post-doctoral fellows in Biomedical Sciences (e.g. those at: Genome Institute of Singapore, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, and etc.) [only for PhDs] |
67. Research Scientists and Engineers/Post-doctoral fellows in Physical and Engineering Sciences (e.g. those at: Institute of High Performance Computing, Data Storage Institute, and etc.) [only for PhDs] |
68. Systems Engineer |
