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 Sept 2026 · 1389 current deduplicated opportunities analysed.

Usable Requirements1281
Requirements coverage92%
Qualification-signal vacancies1026
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

1026 current opportunities contain at least one configured qualification signal. Percentages use the 1281 vacancies with usable Requirements as the denominator.

  1. 1
    Matric / Grade 1256% of vacancies with usable Requirements
    716
  2. 2
    Degree33% of vacancies with usable Requirements
    421
  3. 3
    Diploma28% of vacancies with usable Requirements
    354
  4. 4
    Postgraduate qualification3% of vacancies with usable Requirements
    38
  5. 5
    Certificate2% of vacancies with usable Requirements
    32
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
    483
  2. 2
    Degree38% of vacancies where a configured qualification was detected · 31% of covered Requirements
    393
  3. 3
    Diploma9% of vacancies where a configured qualification was detected · 7% of covered Requirements
    89
  4. 4
    Postgraduate qualification4% of vacancies where a configured qualification was detected · 3% of covered Requirements
    38
  5. 5
    Certificate2% of vacancies where a configured qualification was detected · 2% of covered Requirements
    23
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.

173 current opportunities meet SpanSam's conservative entry-level classifier; 160 of them have usable Requirements.

Matric / Grade 1279 mentions · 49% of covered entry-level RequirementsDegree70 mentions · 44% of covered entry-level RequirementsDiploma64 mentions · 40% of covered entry-level RequirementsCertificate12 mentions · 8% of covered entry-level RequirementsPostgraduate qualification9 mentions · 6% of covered entry-level Requirements
Public vs non-public

How qualification mentions differ by market segment

This compares 427 public-sector and 541 non-public vacancies with usable Requirements. Percentages are calculated within each segment.

  1. 1
    Matric / Grade 12Public 49% (208) · Non-public 53% (288) · 4 percentage points higher in non-public
    496
  2. 2
    DegreePublic 29% (122) · Non-public 34% (182) · 5 percentage points higher in non-public
    304
  3. 3
    DiplomaPublic 29% (122) · Non-public 23% (127) · 6 percentage points higher in public
    249
  4. 4
    Postgraduate qualificationPublic 2% (9) · Non-public 3% (16) · 1 percentage points higher in non-public
    25
  5. 5
    CertificatePublic 1% (5) · Non-public 3% (16) · 2 percentage points higher in non-public
    21

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.

71 current opportunities · 100% Requirements coverage

Store Manager

4 employers
Matric / Grade 1269 mentions · 97% of covered RequirementsDiploma68 mentions · 96% of covered RequirementsDegree67 mentions · 94% of covered Requirements
50 current opportunities · 100% Requirements coverage

Nursing

7 employers
Diploma38 mentions · 76% of covered RequirementsDegree37 mentions · 74% of covered RequirementsMatric / Grade 1219 mentions · 38% of covered RequirementsPostgraduate qualification6 mentions · 12% of covered Requirements
37 current opportunities · 100% Requirements coverage

Accounting & Bookkeeping

14 employers
Matric / Grade 1225 mentions · 68% of covered RequirementsDegree6 mentions · 16% of covered RequirementsDiploma5 mentions · 14% of covered Requirements
36 current opportunities · 100% Requirements coverage

Administration Clerk

15 employers
Matric / Grade 1231 mentions · 86% of covered Requirements
35 current opportunities · 94% Requirements coverage

Driver

10 employers
Matric / Grade 1222 mentions · 67% of covered Requirements
25 current opportunities · 96% Requirements coverage

Sales Representative

6 employers
Matric / Grade 1223 mentions · 96% of covered Requirements
24 current opportunities · 100% Requirements coverage

General Assistant

2 employers
Matric / Grade 1224 mentions · 100% of covered Requirements
23 current opportunities · 96% Requirements coverage

Artisan

5 employers
Certificate3 mentions · 14% of covered RequirementsMatric / Grade 123 mentions · 14% of covered Requirements
14 current opportunities · 100% Requirements coverage

Social Worker

3 employers
Degree4 mentions · 29% of covered RequirementsMatric / Grade 124 mentions · 29% of covered Requirements
12 current opportunities · 92% Requirements coverage

Teacher

3 employers
Degree7 mentions · 64% of covered RequirementsDiploma3 mentions · 27% 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

Qualification history is accumulating from 14 Sept 2026. Seven-, 30- and 90-day comparisons will appear only after a suitable prior daily snapshot exists.

1 stored market snapshot7 / 30 / 90-day windows
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: 1281 of 1389 current opportunities (92%) contain usable structured Requirements.