SpanSam Skills Intelligence

What skills employers are asking for right now

Explore recurring skill signals in structured vacancy Requirements across SpanSam's current South African opportunity inventory, without inflating demand from responsibilities, marketing copy or related jobs.

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

Usable Requirements1542
Requirements coverage93%
Configured skills observed24
Top configured signalComputer literacy
Method

Requirements first, or it does not count

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SpanSam counts a configured skill only when its signal appears in a vacancy's structured Requirements. Responsibilities, employer descriptions, related jobs and promotional copy do not contribute to these counts.

Missing Requirements are treated as unknown, not as proof that a skill is unnecessary. Percentages on this page therefore use vacancies with usable Requirements as the denominator unless stated otherwise.

Overall skills

Most frequent configured skill signals

1123 current opportunities contain at least one configured skill signal. The ranking below shows how often each configured signal appears and its share of the 1542 vacancies with usable Requirements.

  1. 1
    Computer literacy39% of vacancies with usable Requirements
    600
  2. 2
    Communication24% of vacancies with usable Requirements
    364
  3. 3
    Microsoft Office14% of vacancies with usable Requirements
    209
  4. 4
    Excel11% of vacancies with usable Requirements
    175
  5. 5
    Health & safety10% of vacancies with usable Requirements
    156
  6. 6
    Customer service8% of vacancies with usable Requirements
    118
  7. 7
    Project management7% of vacancies with usable Requirements
    104
  8. 8
    Sales5% of vacancies with usable Requirements
    82
  9. 9
    Accounting5% of vacancies with usable Requirements
    76
  10. 10
    Supply chain & procurement5% of vacancies with usable Requirements
    75
  11. 11
    Data analysis5% of vacancies with usable Requirements
    70
  12. 12
    People leadership4% of vacancies with usable Requirements
    64
  13. 13
    CRM2% of vacancies with usable Requirements
    35
  14. 14
    Stock & inventory2% of vacancies with usable Requirements
    34
  15. 15
    SQL1% of vacancies with usable Requirements
    16
Public vs non-public

How requirement signals differ by market segment

This compares 614 public-sector and 555 non-public vacancies with usable Requirements. Percentages are calculated within each segment, so differently sized inventories remain comparable.

  1. 1
    Computer literacyPublic 57% (353) · Non-public 22% (123) · 35 percentage points higher in public
    476
  2. 2
    CommunicationPublic 38% (235) · Non-public 15% (83) · 23 percentage points higher in public
    318
  3. 3
    Microsoft OfficePublic 8% (52) · Non-public 18% (101) · 10 percentage points higher in non-public
    153
  4. 4
    Health & safetyPublic 22% (137) · Non-public 1% (8) · 21 percentage points higher in public
    145
  5. 5
    ExcelPublic 12% (75) · Non-public 10% (57) · 2 percentage points higher in public
    132
  6. 6
    Project managementPublic 13% (80) · Non-public 3% (15) · 10 percentage points higher in public
    95
  7. 7
    Customer servicePublic 3% (19) · Non-public 13% (73) · 10 percentage points higher in non-public
    92
  8. 8
    Supply chain & procurementPublic 6% (35) · Non-public 5% (25) · 1 percentage points higher in public
    60
  9. 9
    AccountingPublic 5% (30) · Non-public 5% (29) · similar share
    59
  10. 10
    Data analysisPublic 7% (41) · Non-public 3% (15) · 4 percentage points higher in public
    56
  11. 11
    People leadershipPublic 6% (37) · Non-public 3% (16) · 3 percentage points higher in public
    53
  12. 12
    SalesPublic 0% (1) · Non-public 7% (40) · 7 percentage points higher in non-public
    41

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

Career skill profiles

What different Career Paths ask for

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Career profiles are shown only when a published Career Path has at least 10 current matching opportunities and at least 60% usable Requirements. This prevents tiny samples from being presented as stable patterns.

75 current opportunities · 99% Requirements coverage

Artisan

8 employers
Computer literacy59 vacancies · 80% of covered RequirementsHealth & safety55 vacancies · 74% of covered RequirementsCommunication18 vacancies · 24% of covered RequirementsProject management5 vacancies · 7% of covered Requirements
75 current opportunities · 100% Requirements coverage

Store Manager

5 employers
Computer literacy66 vacancies · 88% of covered RequirementsHealth & safety5 vacancies · 7% of covered RequirementsSupply chain & procurement5 vacancies · 7% of covered Requirements
56 current opportunities · 100% Requirements coverage

Administration Clerk

21 employers
Computer literacy35 vacancies · 63% of covered RequirementsCommunication28 vacancies · 50% of covered RequirementsExcel27 vacancies · 48% of covered RequirementsMicrosoft Office17 vacancies · 30% of covered RequirementsSupply chain & procurement9 vacancies · 16% of covered Requirements
34 current opportunities · 97% Requirements coverage

Nursing

6 employers
Communication13 vacancies · 39% of covered RequirementsComputer literacy11 vacancies · 33% of covered RequirementsMicrosoft Office3 vacancies · 9% of covered Requirements
29 current opportunities · 90% Requirements coverage

Driver

15 employers
Computer literacy3 vacancies · 12% of covered Requirements
28 current opportunities · 100% Requirements coverage

Accounting & Bookkeeping

13 employers
Accounting20 vacancies · 71% of covered RequirementsComputer literacy14 vacancies · 50% of covered RequirementsCommunication9 vacancies · 32% of covered RequirementsExcel7 vacancies · 25% of covered RequirementsCustomer service4 vacancies · 14% of covered Requirements
27 current opportunities · 96% Requirements coverage

Sales Representative

5 employers
Sales25 vacancies · 96% of covered Requirements
26 current opportunities · 100% Requirements coverage

Cashier

3 employers
Computer literacy26 vacancies · 100% of covered RequirementsCustomer service13 vacancies · 50% of covered RequirementsMicrosoft Office13 vacancies · 50% of covered RequirementsPoint of sale / till13 vacancies · 50% of covered Requirements
Current examples

Vacancies behind the skill signals

A small live sample connects leading configured skills back to current source opportunities. Always use the vacancy page itself for the full eligibility and application requirements.

Historical intelligence

Which skill signals are moving

Compared with 18 Oct 2026, these leading configured skills changed most in SpanSam's current inventory.

  1. 1
    Health & safety10% of covered Requirements now · +4 percentage points
    +69
  2. 2
    Computer literacy39% of covered Requirements now · +4 percentage points
    +60
  3. 3
    Communication24% of covered Requirements now · +3 percentage points
    +46
  4. 4
    Microsoft Office14% of covered Requirements now · +2 percentage points
    +24
  5. 5
    Excel11% of covered Requirements now · +1 percentage points
    +24
  6. 6
    Customer service8% of covered Requirements now · +2 percentage points
    +24
  7. 7
    Supply chain & procurement5% of covered Requirements now · -1 percentage points
    -11
  8. 8
    Data analysis5% of covered Requirements now · +1 percentage points
    +6
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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.

Computer literacyCurrent Requirements evidence →CommunicationCurrent Requirements evidence →ExcelCurrent Requirements evidence →Microsoft OfficeCurrent Requirements evidence →AccountingCurrent Requirements evidence →Customer serviceCurrent Requirements evidence →Data analysisCurrent Requirements evidence →Project managementCurrent Requirements evidence →Supply chain & procurementCurrent 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 every vacancy or skill requested in South Africa.

The configured taxonomy currently tracks 25 skill signals. A count means the configured term or pattern was observed in structured Requirements; it does not imply every employer uses identical wording, and skills outside the configured taxonomy are not counted yet.

Career-specific profiles are quality-gated by sample size and Requirements coverage. Public/non-public comparisons use only classified vacancies with usable Requirements. Historical movement is published only when an appropriate prior daily snapshot exists.

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