ICT quality assurance specialist
AI displacement risk
40%
Range 35.68–43.55%
ICT quality assurance specialist has 83% AI task overlap but 27% human bottleneck protection — at the 87th percentile across 562 occupations. High exposure meets organizational friction, creating offsetting forces.
Professionals·SGD 7,666/mo (4,797–14,424)·~4.5K workers in SG·Updated 2026-06-11
Structural pressure, not a prediction of job loss. Displacement tends to arrive through slower hiring, wage compression and role redesign before layoffs.
Why This Score
83% of tasks overlap with current AI
27% human advantage from judgment & presence
63% demand buffer from the local labour market
These factors interact with each other — the final score is not a simple sum of these bars.
How much AI overlaps with this job's tasks, offset by human advantages and local demand. How this works
Tasks AI can handle
With 83% AI task overlap (based on Felten AIOE), the ICT quality assurance specialist tasks most exposed include: financial modeling, data extraction from filings, ratio analysis, report generation, transaction categorization, and regulatory document summarization.
- • Monitor bug resolution efforts and track successes.
- • Investigate customer problems referred by technical support.
- • Test system modifications to prepare for implementation.
O*NET tasks for this occupation with the most observed AI usage (Anthropic task data).
What AI can't do here
At 27% human bottleneck protection, the tasks that remain hardest to automate for ICT quality assurance specialist include: judgment on risk vs. return, client advisory relationships, regulatory interpretation in edge cases, fraud detection in novel scenarios, and strategic capital allocation.
Skills to focus on
Sources: Felten AIOE (2021), Pizzinelli et al. bottleneck model. Full methodology.
Singapore Now
Current labour market conditions and how they affect this role.
Cooling, but not collapsing. Vacancies and re-entry are softer, yet retrenchment remains low and hiring still exceeds resignations.
Vacancy
3.1%
↓ 3.1% YoY
Hiring
1.5%
vs 0.9% resign
Retrenchment
1.5
per 1,000 · low
Re-entry
67.7%
find work in 12mo· -5.3pp
Professionals, Managers, Executives & Technicians · 2025 Q4
Top Industries
Industry vacancy overlays use the latest published detailed cross-tab, which can lag the main labour monitor.
What You Can Do
ICT quality assurance specialist has some offset potential, but it depends on transition pathways holding up in practice and on workers clearing the main switching frictions.
Published transition support
Related roles you could transition to
Risk-reducingThis occupation sits in the structurally vulnerable quadrant: high displacement pressure, and its best adjacent move ranks in the weakest quarter of exit options among high-risk occupations. Mobility research finds outcomes hinge on escape-route quality, not pressure alone. See all occupations in this quadrant.
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Higher risk than 87% of occupations · V7 structural score
Raw scores
AIOE 1.241 · θ 0.648 · C-AIOE 1.039
Stability
stable · Optimistic 38% · Pessimistic 49%
Score range (best/worst case)
Exposure 83–83% · Net risk 35.68–43.55%
Scoring basis
V7 structural score. Uses task-concentration-weighted exposure, human bottleneck, and demand resilience. V6 baseline fields are retained for release-to-release comparison.-4.1pp versus retained V6 baseline.
Wage range (SGD/mo)
25th 4,797 · Median 7,666 · 75th 14,424
Evidence & sources
Data matching
direct · SSOC 25151
Data quality
54% · Matching 0.98 · Market data 0.70 · Freshness 0.55
100% weighted task match · 35% effective coverage
AI overlap by data source
Weights: aioe 100%
Conflicting data signals
Tools & offset factors
What could slow it down
- Current demand support is thin, so offsets may take longer to show up.
Worker profile & local context
- Vacancy rate is 3.1% and was essentially flat versus last quarter.
- Hiring read: recruitment is running above resignation (1.5% vs 0.9%).
- Retrenchment was low at 1.5 per 1,000 employees.
- 67.7% of retrenched workers re-entered employment within 12 months.
- Employer pressure is low, based on 2 recent Singapore-relevant company signals.
Worker profile
Gender mix
70% male / 30% femalePublished Singapore worker composition for the detailed occupation family 25 Information & Communications Technology Professionals.
Employment structure
Employee-heavy96% employees, 4% employers or self-employed workers.
Work arrangement
Mostly full-time4% part-time and 96% full-time in 2025.
Age profile
Mid-career heavy14% aged 15 to 29, 62% aged 30 to 49, and 24% aged 50 or older.
Qualification mix
Degree-heavyDegree 81%; Diploma / professional qualification 15%.
Gross wage by sex
Female median 53% lowerPublished June 2024 gross wage medians: male $12,902, female $6,015.
Where this work is concentrated
Top planning areas
Sengkang, Bedok, Tampines19% of workers in this occupation group live in these three planning areas.
Residential concentration
Broadly distributed30% live across the top five planning areas in the 2020 Census.
Commute pattern
Mid-range commutesEstimated average commute 37.5 minutes. 33% take 46 minutes or more.
Role profile
How this role's work breaks down across key dimensions. This is a general profile, not an individual measurement.
Workflow dimensions (0 = low, 1 = high)
How this changes by career stage
Senior workers benefit from institutional knowledge and judgment that AI cannot replicate. Entry-level roles have higher task overlap with AI.
Frequently asked questions
Will AI replace ICT quality assurance specialist?
ICT quality assurance specialist has 83% AI task overlap but 27% human bottleneck protection — at the 87th percentile across 562 occupations. High exposure meets organizational friction, creating offsetting forces. Net displacement risk: 40% (High). Median wage: SGD 7,666/month.
What is the AI risk score for ICT quality assurance specialist?
ICT quality assurance specialist has an AI displacement risk of 40%, rated High. AI task overlap: 83%. Human advantage: 27%. Local demand buffer: 63%.
What career transitions are available for ICT quality assurance specialist?
ICT quality assurance specialist has modeled transition pathways to related occupations. The strongest adjacent pathway is ICT auditor, based on skill and wage similarity (model-estimated). Transition scoring accounts for wage preservation, training ease, and destination quality.
How does ICT quality assurance specialist salary compare in the live market?
ICT quality assurance specialist earns a median gross wage of SGD 7,666/month in the live market (25th-75th percentile: SGD 4,797-14,424). This is 70% above median across all 562 scored occupations, and 18% above group median within Professionals occupations.