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: 04 Oct 2026 · 1433 current deduplicated opportunities analysed.

Usable Requirements1320
Requirements coverage92%
Qualification-signal vacancies1135
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

1135 current opportunities contain at least one configured qualification signal. Percentages use the 1320 vacancies with usable Requirements as the denominator.

  1. 1
    Matric / Grade 1257% of vacancies with usable Requirements
    752
  2. 2
    Degree34% of vacancies with usable Requirements
    453
  3. 3
    Diploma31% of vacancies with usable Requirements
    405
  4. 4
    Postgraduate qualification5% of vacancies with usable Requirements
    70
  5. 5
    Certificate3% of vacancies with usable Requirements
    33
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 1248% of vacancies where a configured qualification was detected · 41% of covered Requirements
    547
  2. 2
    Degree34% of vacancies where a configured qualification was detected · 29% of covered Requirements
    389
  3. 3
    Diploma9% of vacancies where a configured qualification was detected · 8% of covered Requirements
    103
  4. 4
    Postgraduate qualification6% of vacancies where a configured qualification was detected · 5% of covered Requirements
    70
  5. 5
    Certificate2% of vacancies where a configured qualification was detected · 2% of covered Requirements
    26
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.

193 current opportunities meet SpanSam's conservative entry-level classifier; 180 of them have usable Requirements.

Matric / Grade 1282 mentions · 46% of covered entry-level RequirementsDegree80 mentions · 44% of covered entry-level RequirementsDiploma72 mentions · 40% of covered entry-level RequirementsPostgraduate qualification26 mentions · 14% of covered entry-level RequirementsCertificate14 mentions · 8% of covered entry-level Requirements
Public vs non-public

How qualification mentions differ by market segment

This compares 393 public-sector and 603 non-public vacancies with usable Requirements. Percentages are calculated within each segment.

  1. 1
    Matric / Grade 12Public 37% (147) · Non-public 62% (371) · 25 percentage points higher in non-public
    518
  2. 2
    DegreePublic 42% (167) · Non-public 28% (168) · 14 percentage points higher in public
    335
  3. 3
    DiplomaPublic 45% (176) · Non-public 21% (126) · 24 percentage points higher in public
    302
  4. 4
    Postgraduate qualificationPublic 9% (36) · Non-public 3% (19) · 6 percentage points higher in public
    55
  5. 5
    CertificatePublic 3% (10) · Non-public 2% (12) · 1 percentage points higher in public
    22

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.

73 current opportunities · 100% Requirements coverage

Store Manager

5 employers
Diploma71 mentions · 97% of covered RequirementsMatric / Grade 1269 mentions · 95% of covered RequirementsDegree68 mentions · 93% of covered Requirements
36 current opportunities · 100% Requirements coverage

Administration Clerk

18 employers
Matric / Grade 1233 mentions · 92% of covered Requirements
34 current opportunities · 100% Requirements coverage

Nursing

8 employers
Diploma30 mentions · 88% of covered RequirementsDegree29 mentions · 85% of covered RequirementsMatric / Grade 129 mentions · 26% of covered RequirementsPostgraduate qualification4 mentions · 12% of covered Requirements
34 current opportunities · 100% Requirements coverage

Pharmacist

3 employers
Matric / Grade 1232 mentions · 94% of covered Requirements
26 current opportunities · 100% Requirements coverage

General Assistant

2 employers
Matric / Grade 1226 mentions · 100% of covered Requirements
25 current opportunities · 92% Requirements coverage

Driver

11 employers
Matric / Grade 1218 mentions · 78% of covered Requirements
24 current opportunities · 100% Requirements coverage

Cashier

6 employers
Matric / Grade 1224 mentions · 100% of covered Requirements
22 current opportunities · 95% Requirements coverage

Sales Representative

4 employers
Matric / Grade 1218 mentions · 86% of covered Requirements
20 current opportunities · 95% Requirements coverage

Accounting & Bookkeeping

14 employers
Diploma9 mentions · 47% of covered RequirementsDegree8 mentions · 42% of covered RequirementsMatric / Grade 124 mentions · 21% of covered Requirements
15 current opportunities · 100% Requirements coverage

Artisan

8 employers
Matric / Grade 126 mentions · 40% of covered RequirementsCertificate4 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

Compared with 27 Sept 2026, these highest qualification signals changed most in SpanSam's current inventory.

  1. 1
    Matric / Grade 1241% of covered Requirements now · +2 percentage points
    +56
  2. 2
    Diploma8% of covered Requirements now · +1 percentage points
    +14
  3. 3
    Certificate2% of covered Requirements now · 0 percentage points
    -3
  4. 4
    Postgraduate qualification5% of covered Requirements now · -1 percentage points
    -2
  5. 5
    Degree29% of covered Requirements now · -2 percentage points
    -1
18 stored market snapshots7 / 30 / 90-day windows
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: 1320 of 1433 current opportunities (92%) contain usable structured Requirements.