SpanSam Qualifications Intelligence

What qualifications appear in vacancy requirements right now

Explore qualification signals found in structured Requirements across SpanSam's current South African opportunity inventory, with separate views for mentions, highest-level signals, entry-level opportunities, market segments and Career Paths.

Snapshot: 25 Oct 2026 · 1667 current deduplicated opportunities analysed.

Usable Requirements1542
Requirements coverage93%
Qualification-signal vacancies1266
Top mention signalMatric / Grade 12
Method

Requirements first, with alternatives kept explicit

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SpanSam counts qualification signals only when configured wording appears in a vacancy's structured Requirements. Missing Requirements are unknown, not evidence that a qualification is unnecessary.

A mention is not automatically a hard minimum. A vacancy can say “degree or diploma”, so both signals can be counted in the mention view. The separate highest-signal view is only a text summary of the highest configured level observed; it does not claim that level is the sole or minimum acceptable credential.

Qualification mentions

Most frequent configured qualification signals

1266 current opportunities contain at least one configured qualification signal. Percentages use the 1542 vacancies with usable Requirements as the denominator.

  1. 1
    Matric / Grade 1255% of vacancies with usable Requirements
    852
  2. 2
    Degree30% of vacancies with usable Requirements
    464
  3. 3
    Diploma26% of vacancies with usable Requirements
    405
  4. 4
    Certificate5% of vacancies with usable Requirements
    73
  5. 5
    Postgraduate qualification2% of vacancies with usable Requirements
    34
Highest-level summary

Highest qualification signal observed

Each Requirements block with one or more configured qualification signals is assigned the highest-ranked signal detected for this summary only. This avoids double-counting within the distribution, but does not determine the vacancy's minimum credential.

  1. 1
    Matric / Grade 1247% of vacancies where a configured qualification was detected · 38% of covered Requirements
    592
  2. 2
    Degree35% of vacancies where a configured qualification was detected · 29% of covered Requirements
    440
  3. 3
    Diploma11% of vacancies where a configured qualification was detected · 9% of covered Requirements
    138
  4. 4
    Certificate5% of vacancies where a configured qualification was detected · 4% of covered Requirements
    62
  5. 5
    Postgraduate qualification3% of vacancies where a configured qualification was detected · 2% of covered Requirements
    34
Entry-level qualification mix

Qualification signals in opportunities for candidates starting out

This subset reuses SpanSam's conservative entry-level classifier. Ordinary “1–2 years experience” wording is not enough by itself to classify a vacancy as entry-level.

226 current opportunities meet SpanSam's conservative entry-level classifier; 213 of them have usable Requirements.

Matric / Grade 1291 mentions · 43% of covered entry-level RequirementsDegree79 mentions · 37% of covered entry-level RequirementsDiploma57 mentions · 27% of covered entry-level RequirementsCertificate18 mentions · 8% of covered entry-level RequirementsPostgraduate qualification7 mentions · 3% of covered entry-level Requirements
Public vs non-public

How qualification mentions differ by market segment

This compares 614 public-sector and 555 non-public vacancies with usable Requirements. Percentages are calculated within each segment.

  1. 1
    Matric / Grade 12Public 48% (294) · Non-public 52% (287) · 4 percentage points higher in non-public
    581
  2. 2
    DegreePublic 26% (162) · Non-public 30% (169) · 4 percentage points higher in non-public
    331
  3. 3
    DiplomaPublic 26% (158) · Non-public 23% (130) · 3 percentage points higher in public
    288
  4. 4
    CertificatePublic 3% (20) · Non-public 7% (41) · 4 percentage points higher in non-public
    61
  5. 5
    Postgraduate qualificationPublic 1% (6) · Non-public 2% (12) · 1 percentage points higher in non-public
    18

The classification reflects SpanSam source/employer signals and is not an official national public/private labour-market measure.

Career qualification profiles

Qualification signals by Career Path

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Profiles are shown only when a published Career Path has at least 10 current matching opportunities and at least 60% usable Requirements. Individual qualification signals must appear in at least 3 matching vacancies.

75 current opportunities · 99% Requirements coverage

Artisan

8 employers
Matric / Grade 1225 mentions · 34% of covered RequirementsCertificate10 mentions · 14% of covered Requirements
75 current opportunities · 100% Requirements coverage

Store Manager

5 employers
Diploma72 mentions · 96% of covered RequirementsMatric / Grade 1270 mentions · 93% of covered RequirementsDegree69 mentions · 92% of covered Requirements
56 current opportunities · 100% Requirements coverage

Administration Clerk

21 employers
Matric / Grade 1255 mentions · 98% of covered RequirementsCertificate4 mentions · 7% of covered RequirementsDegree3 mentions · 5% of covered Requirements
34 current opportunities · 97% Requirements coverage

Nursing

6 employers
Degree29 mentions · 88% of covered RequirementsDiploma29 mentions · 88% of covered RequirementsMatric / Grade 1215 mentions · 45% of covered Requirements
29 current opportunities · 90% Requirements coverage

Driver

15 employers
Matric / Grade 1221 mentions · 81% of covered Requirements
29 current opportunities · 100% Requirements coverage

General Assistant

2 employers
Matric / Grade 1229 mentions · 100% of covered Requirements
28 current opportunities · 100% Requirements coverage

Accounting & Bookkeeping

13 employers
Matric / Grade 1217 mentions · 61% of covered RequirementsDegree9 mentions · 32% of covered RequirementsDiploma5 mentions · 18% of covered Requirements
27 current opportunities · 96% Requirements coverage

Sales Representative

5 employers
Matric / Grade 1223 mentions · 88% of covered Requirements
26 current opportunities · 100% Requirements coverage

Cashier

3 employers
Matric / Grade 1226 mentions · 100% of covered Requirements
Current examples

Vacancies behind the qualification signals

A small live sample connects configured qualification mentions to current opportunities. Read the vacancy itself for exact alternatives, fields of study, registration requirements and application rules.

Historical intelligence

How highest qualification signals are moving

Compared with 18 Oct 2026, these highest qualification signals changed most in SpanSam's current inventory.

  1. 1
    Degree29% of covered Requirements now · -5 percentage points
    -77
  2. 2
    Matric / Grade 1238% of covered Requirements now · +3 percentage points
    +53
  3. 3
    Diploma9% of covered Requirements now · +1 percentage points
    +22
  4. 4
    Certificate4% of covered Requirements now · +1 percentage points
    +11
  5. 5
    Postgraduate qualification2% of covered Requirements now · -1 percentage points
    -9
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Topic reports

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These pages are published only when current sample size, employer diversity and Requirements coverage clear SpanSam's SEO intelligence quality gates.

Matric / Grade 12Current Requirements evidence →DegreeCurrent Requirements evidence →DiplomaCurrent Requirements evidence →

Methodology and limits

This report analyses current deduplicated opportunities indexed by SpanSam. It describes SpanSam's inventory and is not a complete census of qualifications requested across the South African labour market.

The configured taxonomy tracks 5 broad qualification levels. It does not yet attempt to classify every field of study, NQF level or professional credential. Multiple levels can appear in one vacancy as alternatives, so mention totals can overlap.

The “highest qualification signal observed” is a summarisation rule, not a statement of the sole or minimum qualification accepted. Career profiles are quality-gated by sample size and Requirements coverage, while historical comparisons are shown only when a suitable prior daily market snapshot exists.

Current data quality: 1542 of 1667 current opportunities (93%) contain usable structured Requirements.