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: 14 Nov 2026 · 617 current deduplicated opportunities analysed.

Usable Requirements590
Requirements coverage96%
Qualification-signal vacancies471
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

471 current opportunities contain at least one configured qualification signal. Percentages use the 590 vacancies with usable Requirements as the denominator.

  1. 1
    Matric / Grade 1251% of vacancies with usable Requirements
    303
  2. 2
    Degree43% of vacancies with usable Requirements
    256
  3. 3
    Diploma39% of vacancies with usable Requirements
    229
  4. 4
    Certificate4% of vacancies with usable Requirements
    22
  5. 5
    Postgraduate qualification4% of vacancies with usable Requirements
    21
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
    Degree51% of vacancies where a configured qualification was detected · 40% of covered Requirements
    238
  2. 2
    Matric / Grade 1234% of vacancies where a configured qualification was detected · 27% of covered Requirements
    159
  3. 3
    Diploma8% of vacancies where a configured qualification was detected · 6% of covered Requirements
    37
  4. 4
    Postgraduate qualification4% of vacancies where a configured qualification was detected · 4% of covered Requirements
    21
  5. 5
    Certificate3% of vacancies where a configured qualification was detected · 3% of covered Requirements
    16
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.

78 current opportunities meet SpanSam's conservative entry-level classifier; 69 of them have usable Requirements.

Degree32 mentions · 46% of covered entry-level RequirementsMatric / Grade 1226 mentions · 38% of covered entry-level RequirementsDiploma24 mentions · 35% of covered entry-level RequirementsCertificate6 mentions · 9% of covered entry-level RequirementsPostgraduate qualification2 mentions · 3% of covered entry-level Requirements
Public vs non-public

How qualification mentions differ by market segment

This compares 305 public-sector and 139 non-public vacancies with usable Requirements. Percentages are calculated within each segment.

  1. 1
    Matric / Grade 12Public 37% (114) · Non-public 55% (76) · 18 percentage points higher in non-public
    190
  2. 2
    DegreePublic 38% (115) · Non-public 42% (58) · 4 percentage points higher in non-public
    173
  3. 3
    DiplomaPublic 34% (105) · Non-public 35% (49) · 1 percentage points higher in non-public
    154
  4. 4
    CertificatePublic 6% (17) · Non-public 3% (4) · 3 percentage points higher in public
    21
  5. 5
    Postgraduate qualificationPublic 3% (10) · Non-public 4% (6) · 1 percentage points higher in non-public
    16

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.

68 current opportunities · 100% Requirements coverage

Store Manager

2 employers
Degree68 mentions · 100% of covered RequirementsDiploma68 mentions · 100% of covered RequirementsMatric / Grade 1264 mentions · 94% of covered Requirements
39 current opportunities · 100% Requirements coverage

Administration Clerk

16 employers
Matric / Grade 1239 mentions · 100% of covered Requirements
33 current opportunities · 100% Requirements coverage

Nursing

2 employers
Degree26 mentions · 79% of covered RequirementsDiploma26 mentions · 79% of covered RequirementsMatric / Grade 126 mentions · 18% of covered RequirementsPostgraduate qualification5 mentions · 15% of covered Requirements
18 current opportunities · 100% Requirements coverage

Artisan

3 employers
Matric / Grade 1217 mentions · 94% of covered RequirementsCertificate14 mentions · 78% of covered Requirements
11 current opportunities · 100% Requirements coverage

Accounting & Bookkeeping

2 employers
Matric / Grade 1210 mentions · 91% of covered RequirementsDegree9 mentions · 82% of covered RequirementsDiploma8 mentions · 73% 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 07 Nov 2026, these highest qualification signals changed most in SpanSam's current inventory.

  1. 1
    Matric / Grade 1227% of covered Requirements now · -1 percentage points
    -56
  2. 2
    Diploma6% of covered Requirements now · -5 percentage points
    -45
  3. 3
    Degree40% of covered Requirements now · +8 percentage points
    -5
  4. 4
    Certificate3% of covered Requirements now · 0 percentage points
    -4
  5. 5
    Postgraduate qualification4% of covered Requirements now · +2 percentage points
    +3
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Topic reports

Explore focused intelligence reports

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: 590 of 617 current opportunities (96%) contain usable structured Requirements.