- Open IT roles on ITviec: 655 → 701 (+7%)
- Roles asking for AI: 13% → 13.4%
- Senior, lead or manager roles: 47.5% → 45.6%
- Foreign-owned centres: 51 → 56 open roles, at 19 centres
Vietnam IT hiring pulse
What Vietnam’s IT job market is asking for, read every week by the vitX hiring tracker: the main job boards, the cities, the skills, and the foreign companies building delivery centres here.
Tracking since 23 March 2026203 days30 scans · weekly census since 3 August 2026Edition 8 · updated 12 October 2026
- open IT roles on ITviec since the 24 Aug peak (804 to 667)
- −17%
- of IT job ads ask for AI skills, from 11.3% in early August
- 13.4%
- of open roles are senior, lead or manager
- 46%
What changed
Each weekly census against the one before. New entries appear here first.
Earlier weeks
- Open IT roles on ITviec: 743 → 655 (−12%)
- Roles asking for AI: 12.8% → 13%
- Senior, lead or manager roles: 48.7% → 47.5%
- Foreign-owned centres: 23 → 51 open roles, at 15 centres
- Roles asking for AI: 13.4% → 12.8%
- Senior, lead or manager roles: 47.6% → 48.7%
- Foreign-owned centres: 27 → 23 open roles, at 6 centres
- Roles asking for AI: 14.1% → 13.4%
- Senior, lead or manager roles: 46% → 47.6%
- Foreign-owned centres: 31 → 27 open roles, at 9 centres
- Open IT roles on ITviec: 750 → 804 (+7%)
- Roles asking for AI: 12.9% → 14.1%
- Senior, lead or manager roles: 45.3% → 46%
- Foreign-owned centres: 40 → 31 open roles, at 13 centres
- Open IT roles on ITviec: 752 → 750 (−0%)
- Roles asking for AI: 11.7% → 12.9%
- Senior, lead or manager roles: 44.1% → 45.3%
- Foreign-owned centres: 59 → 40 open roles, at 17 centres
- Open IT roles on ITviec: 764 → 752 (−2%)
- Roles asking for AI: 11.3% → 11.7%
- Senior, lead or manager roles: 43.7% → 44.1%
- Foreign-owned centres: 66 → 59 open roles, at 19 centres
Open roles, board by board
Each board counts differently, so each gets its own scale. Hollow markers are readings the tracker has not confirmed yet.
ITviec: open IT roles
Vietnam’s largest IT-only job board. A full count of every listing, and the cleanest series we have.
LinkedIn: software developer jobs in Vietnam
Signed-in search results. LinkedIn now caps what it shows, so this series pauses until we have a clean count again.
TopDev: IT listings, without MB Bank
The noisiest board. One bank posts a third or more of its headline count, so we take it out, and the total still swings with the site’s own counting. Read the direction, not the level.
VietnamWorks no longer shows a full count to visitors who are not signed in, so it is not charted.
What employers are asking for
Share of IT roles asking for AI
In each full ITviec count: job titles naming AI, machine learning, LLMs, computer vision or NLP. 11.3% in early August, 13.4% now.
Share of roles at senior, lead or manager level
From 43.7% in early August to a high of 48.7%; 45.6% in the latest count.
Senior, lead and manager roles
Foreign-owned delivery centres
We track 79 foreign-owned delivery centres in Vietnam: 43 in-house centres of foreign companies, and 36 international IT services firms. 21 of the in-house centres posted roles in the last month.
- 79foreign-owned centres tracked
- 21in-house centres hiring in the last month
- 8%of open IT roles on ITviec are at in-house centres
- 58%of their roles are senior, lead or manager, against 45% elsewhere
Open roles at in-house centres
Roles posted on ITviec by in-house centres of foreign companies, in each weekly census.
In-house centres hiring
How many of them had at least one role open.
Who is building here
- NABAustralia · 57 roles
- MiTekUnited States · 40 roles
- BoschGermany · 35 roles
- ANDPADJapan · 34 roles
- Shinhan DSKorea · 27 roles
- Money ForwardJapan · 27 roles
- Motorola SolutionsUnited States · 24 roles
- NAKIVOUnited States · 23 roles
- NAVERKorea · 21 roles
- GrabSingapore · 19 roles
- LG ElectronicsKorea · 19 roles
- BinanceInternational · 17 roles
- RenesasJapan · 11 roles
- NVIDIAUnited States · 10 roles
- DaouKiwoomKorea · 9 roles
- SMG Swiss Marketplace GroupSwitzerland · 9 roles
- what3wordsUnited Kingdom · 7 roles
- RakutenJapan · 6 roles
- Live PaymentsAustralia · 6 roles
- RAKUSJapan · 5 roles
- HELLAGermany · 5 roles
- ToshibaJapan · 5 roles
- DatalogicItaly · 5 roles
- FUJIFILMJapan · 4 roles
In-house centres with the most roles since we began tracking. Logos and names identify companies in the data; they are not vitX clients and do not endorse vitX. IT services firms are counted but not shown.
In-house centres are a small, senior slice of the market: about 8% of open IT roles, but 58% of them senior, lead or manager. Their hiring fell from 66 open roles in early August to 23 on 3 Sep, then came back to 56 at 19 centres on 8 Oct. Japanese shows up in 4.8% of their ads that state a language, against 3.2% elsewhere.
Where and how they hire
Where the roles are
Share of roles by city, among ads that name one, by the month we first saw them.
April 20262,092 ads55%38%
May 2026389 ads53%42%
August 2026725 ads47%37%8%
October 2026459 ads63%31%
Ho Chi Minh CityHanoiDa NangSeveral citiesRemoteAbroadOther cities
Who is hiring
- 19%of open roles come from banks, fintechs and securities firms (3 September count)
- 10 of 96AI roles came from one employer, and it is a bank: MB Bank
- 341companies are hiring; 195 of them for a single role
- ~31 daysmedian time a role stayed live before it came down
What it means if you are hiring
- Senior people are the scarce part.
- Nearly half the market is chasing senior and lead engineers. Brief wide and screen hard, or the shortlist is whoever is left.
- AI talent is contested.
- Banks and product companies are hiring the same AI engineers you want. Expect AI roles to take longer, and decide fast when the right person appears.
- The window is open now.
- With fewer open roles than in August, good senior engineers are easier to reach. If the trend holds, it is a good quarter to secure them.
Monthly editions
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