Cybersecurity has biggest dip in salary among tech roles: NodeFlair report
Such engineers across junior, mid, senior and lead roles all report lower salaries
[SINGAPORE] The salaries of some Singapore tech roles dipped in 2025, with cybersecurity having the biggest drop at 4.6 per cent, tech talent platform NodeFlair indicated.
In a report released on Tuesday (Apr 8), seven of 16 job categories reported a decrease in salary. The report gathered more than 130,000 salary data points across roles and countries.
Cybersecurity engineers in Singapore across junior, mid, senior and lead roles all reported lower salaries, with senior roles reporting the biggest dip at 13.8 per cent. Salary at the 50th percentile fell from S$8,750 to S$8,000. Similarly, the salary range at the 10th percentile fell from S$5,700 to S$5,000 and at the 90th percentile from S$15,750 to S$12,500.
Despite the hype around artificial intelligence (AI), salaries of AI-related roles were lower. Data scientists’ salaries dropped by 1.2 per cent, data analysts by 2.4 per cent and data engineers by 1.5 per cent.
More traditional software engineer roles reported an uptick in salary of 3.3 per cent. However, more senior roles of principal and manager posted a drop of 2.3 per cent and 1 per cent, respectively. Salaries of junior software engineers ranged from S$3,750 in the 10th percentile to S$5,000 in the 50th percentile to S$9,000 in the 90th percentile.
The rise in AI-related investments and projects require more traditional software engineers than data-related talent, noted NodeFlair.
Game engineers posted the highest uptick in salary of 28 per cent in 2025, with junior, mid and senior roles all reporting an increase. Salaries of game engineers in junior roles ranged from S$3,500 in the 10th percentile to S$5,000 in the 50th percentile to S$6,500 in the 90th percentile.
“It is heartening to see signs of recovery with software engineer salaries rising again, reversing the downward trend from last year,” said Ethan Ang, founding director of NodeFlair.
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