Market report · Vietnam · AI-era tech jobs · October 2026

What Vietnam hires AI people to actually do

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Summary

    1What employers expect people to do

    Among the IT jobs where AI is the work: share of job descriptions that ask for each responsibility. A job can ask for several.

    Four kinds of AI job, and integration is the largest

    2How the job changes with seniority

    The same ten responsibilities, split by level. Darker cells mean a larger share of that level's job descriptions ask for it.

    3The problems employers are paying to solve

    Why the hire exists, coded from each job description.

    In employers' own words

    Who is hiring

    Industries of AI jobs
    Employers on Job site No. 2 (AI jobs)

    4AI is spreading into every IT role

    How each role family involves AI. Non-AI roles now ask people to integrate AI features or to use AI tools in their daily work.

    What "use AI tools" looks like in non-AI job descriptions

    5What it pays

    Monthly salary from IT job descriptions that state one (Job site No. 1 and No. 3). Only of IT roles state a salary, so read these figures as directional.

    Most job postings hide salary, so this figure is for reference only.

    Median by seniority

    Most job postings hide salary, so this figure is for reference only.

    Median by responsibility (at least 5 job descriptions)

    Most job postings hide salary, so this figure is for reference only.

    What each pay band asks for

    Most job postings hide salary, so this figure is for reference only.

    6Vietnam versus the US

    Compared with my earlier read of 1,405 US postings at 14 AI companies (OpenAI, Anthropic, Databricks, Scale AI, Cursor and others). The methods differ (keywords in the US, responsibility coding here), so compare the direction, not the exact numbers.

    7Where demand is heading (2027–2028)

    Predictions combine this snapshot (where demand clusters by seniority and pay), the gap with the US market, and published Vietnamese surveys. Confidence reflects how much evidence supports each one.