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: 14 Nov 2026 · 617 current deduplicated opportunities analysed.

Usable Requirements590
Requirements coverage96%
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

413 current opportunities contain at least one configured skill signal. The ranking below shows how often each configured signal appears and its share of the 590 vacancies with usable Requirements.

  1. 1
    Computer literacy46% of vacancies with usable Requirements
    269
  2. 2
    Communication24% of vacancies with usable Requirements
    144
  3. 3
    Excel15% of vacancies with usable Requirements
    91
  4. 4
    Microsoft Office13% of vacancies with usable Requirements
    74
  5. 5
    Supply chain & procurement7% of vacancies with usable Requirements
    42
  6. 6
    Project management6% of vacancies with usable Requirements
    36
  7. 7
    Accounting6% of vacancies with usable Requirements
    33
  8. 8
    Data analysis5% of vacancies with usable Requirements
    28
  9. 9
    Health & safety5% of vacancies with usable Requirements
    28
  10. 10
    Customer service3% of vacancies with usable Requirements
    15
  11. 11
    People leadership2% of vacancies with usable Requirements
    14
  12. 12
    Stock & inventory2% of vacancies with usable Requirements
    10
  13. 13
    Risk management2% of vacancies with usable Requirements
    9
  14. 14
    Sales1% of vacancies with usable Requirements
    8
  15. 15
    CRM1% of vacancies with usable Requirements
    7
Public vs non-public

How requirement signals differ by market segment

This compares 305 public-sector and 139 non-public vacancies with usable Requirements. Percentages are calculated within each segment, so differently sized inventories remain comparable.

  1. 1
    Computer literacyPublic 47% (143) · Non-public 35% (48) · 12 percentage points higher in public
    191
  2. 2
    CommunicationPublic 34% (104) · Non-public 18% (25) · 16 percentage points higher in public
    129
  3. 3
    ExcelPublic 18% (56) · Non-public 9% (13) · 9 percentage points higher in public
    69
  4. 4
    Microsoft OfficePublic 7% (20) · Non-public 19% (26) · 12 percentage points higher in non-public
    46
  5. 5
    Supply chain & procurementPublic 10% (31) · Non-public 5% (7) · 5 percentage points higher in public
    38
  6. 6
    Project managementPublic 10% (30) · Non-public 4% (5) · 6 percentage points higher in public
    35
  7. 7
    AccountingPublic 8% (25) · Non-public 4% (6) · 4 percentage points higher in public
    31
  8. 8
    Health & safetyPublic 6% (18) · Non-public 4% (6) · 2 percentage points higher in public
    24
  9. 9
    Data analysisPublic 6% (18) · Non-public 3% (4) · 3 percentage points higher in public
    22
  10. 10
    Customer servicePublic 1% (4) · Non-public 5% (7) · 4 percentage points higher in non-public
    11
  11. 11
    People leadershipPublic 3% (10) · Non-public 0% (0) · 3 percentage points higher in public
    10
  12. 12
    SalesPublic 0% (0) · Non-public 5% (7) · 5 percentage points higher in non-public
    7

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.

68 current opportunities · 100% Requirements coverage

Store Manager

2 employers
Computer literacy68 vacancies · 100% of covered Requirements
39 current opportunities · 100% Requirements coverage

Administration Clerk

16 employers
Computer literacy27 vacancies · 69% of covered RequirementsCommunication18 vacancies · 46% of covered RequirementsExcel18 vacancies · 46% of covered RequirementsMicrosoft Office10 vacancies · 26% of covered RequirementsSupply chain & procurement8 vacancies · 21% of covered Requirements
33 current opportunities · 100% Requirements coverage

Nursing

2 employers
Computer literacy17 vacancies · 52% of covered RequirementsCommunication11 vacancies · 33% of covered RequirementsExcel8 vacancies · 24% of covered Requirements
18 current opportunities · 100% Requirements coverage

Artisan

3 employers
Computer literacy4 vacancies · 22% of covered Requirements
11 current opportunities · 100% Requirements coverage

Accounting & Bookkeeping

2 employers
Accounting11 vacancies · 100% of covered RequirementsComputer literacy10 vacancies · 91% of covered RequirementsExcel9 vacancies · 82% of covered RequirementsSupply chain & procurement9 vacancies · 82% of covered Requirements
10 current opportunities · 90% Requirements coverage

Driver

8 employers
Communication3 vacancies · 33% 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 07 Nov 2026, these leading configured skills changed most in SpanSam's current inventory.

  1. 1
    Computer literacy46% of covered Requirements now · -1 percentage points
    -92
  2. 2
    Communication24% of covered Requirements now · -6 percentage points
    -86
  3. 3
    Health & safety5% of covered Requirements now · -9 percentage points
    -77
  4. 4
    Project management6% of covered Requirements now · -2 percentage points
    -27
  5. 5
    Customer service3% of covered Requirements now · -2 percentage points
    -23
  6. 6
    People leadership2% of covered Requirements now · -2 percentage points
    -16
  7. 7
    Microsoft Office13% of covered Requirements now · +2 percentage points
    -13
  8. 8
    Accounting6% of covered Requirements now · 0 percentage points
    -12
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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 →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: 590 of 617 current opportunities (96%) contain usable structured Requirements.