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 Sept 2026 · 1389 current deduplicated opportunities analysed.

Usable Requirements1281
Requirements coverage92%
Configured skills observed25
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

812 current opportunities contain at least one configured skill signal. The ranking below shows how often each configured signal appears and its share of the 1281 vacancies with usable Requirements.

  1. 1
    Computer literacy27% of vacancies with usable Requirements
    345
  2. 2
    Communication18% of vacancies with usable Requirements
    227
  3. 3
    Excel11% of vacancies with usable Requirements
    140
  4. 4
    Microsoft Office11% of vacancies with usable Requirements
    140
  5. 5
    Accounting7% of vacancies with usable Requirements
    93
  6. 6
    Sales6% of vacancies with usable Requirements
    75
  7. 7
    Customer service6% of vacancies with usable Requirements
    73
  8. 8
    Data analysis5% of vacancies with usable Requirements
    65
  9. 9
    Project management4% of vacancies with usable Requirements
    53
  10. 10
    Health & safety4% of vacancies with usable Requirements
    49
  11. 11
    Supply chain & procurement4% of vacancies with usable Requirements
    49
  12. 12
    People leadership3% of vacancies with usable Requirements
    44
  13. 13
    CRM2% of vacancies with usable Requirements
    27
  14. 14
    Stock & inventory2% of vacancies with usable Requirements
    26
  15. 15
    Stakeholder management2% of vacancies with usable Requirements
    20
Public vs non-public

How requirement signals differ by market segment

This compares 427 public-sector and 541 non-public vacancies with usable Requirements. Percentages are calculated within each segment, so differently sized inventories remain comparable.

  1. 1
    Computer literacyPublic 32% (138) · Non-public 20% (106) · 12 percentage points higher in public
    244
  2. 2
    CommunicationPublic 23% (100) · Non-public 16% (86) · 7 percentage points higher in public
    186
  3. 3
    ExcelPublic 13% (55) · Non-public 9% (50) · 4 percentage points higher in public
    105
  4. 4
    Microsoft OfficePublic 5% (23) · Non-public 14% (77) · 9 percentage points higher in non-public
    100
  5. 5
    AccountingPublic 11% (46) · Non-public 6% (30) · 5 percentage points higher in public
    76
  6. 6
    Customer servicePublic 3% (11) · Non-public 8% (43) · 5 percentage points higher in non-public
    54
  7. 7
    Data analysisPublic 9% (37) · Non-public 3% (16) · 6 percentage points higher in public
    53
  8. 8
    SalesPublic 0% (2) · Non-public 8% (42) · 8 percentage points higher in non-public
    44
  9. 9
    Project managementPublic 6% (24) · Non-public 4% (20) · 2 percentage points higher in public
    44
  10. 10
    Health & safetyPublic 8% (33) · Non-public 1% (7) · 7 percentage points higher in public
    40
  11. 11
    Supply chain & procurementPublic 3% (11) · Non-public 5% (25) · 2 percentage points higher in non-public
    36
  12. 12
    People leadershipPublic 5% (20) · Non-public 3% (14) · 2 percentage points higher in public
    34

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.

71 current opportunities · 100% Requirements coverage

Store Manager

4 employers
Computer literacy64 vacancies · 90% of covered RequirementsHealth & safety5 vacancies · 7% of covered RequirementsSupply chain & procurement5 vacancies · 7% of covered Requirements
50 current opportunities · 100% Requirements coverage

Nursing

7 employers
Computer literacy21 vacancies · 42% of covered RequirementsExcel14 vacancies · 28% of covered RequirementsCommunication12 vacancies · 24% of covered RequirementsMicrosoft Office4 vacancies · 8% of covered Requirements
37 current opportunities · 100% Requirements coverage

Accounting & Bookkeeping

14 employers
Accounting34 vacancies · 92% of covered RequirementsComputer literacy9 vacancies · 24% of covered RequirementsExcel8 vacancies · 22% of covered RequirementsCommunication4 vacancies · 11% of covered RequirementsCustomer service3 vacancies · 8% of covered Requirements
36 current opportunities · 100% Requirements coverage

Administration Clerk

15 employers
Computer literacy23 vacancies · 64% of covered RequirementsCommunication16 vacancies · 44% of covered RequirementsExcel12 vacancies · 33% of covered RequirementsMicrosoft Office7 vacancies · 19% of covered RequirementsSupply chain & procurement7 vacancies · 19% of covered Requirements
35 current opportunities · 94% Requirements coverage

Driver

10 employers
Health & safety6 vacancies · 18% of covered RequirementsCommunication4 vacancies · 12% of covered Requirements
25 current opportunities · 96% Requirements coverage

Sales Representative

6 employers
Sales22 vacancies · 92% of covered RequirementsComputer literacy3 vacancies · 13% of covered Requirements
23 current opportunities · 96% Requirements coverage

Artisan

5 employers
Computer literacy16 vacancies · 73% of covered RequirementsData analysis10 vacancies · 45% of covered RequirementsHealth & safety4 vacancies · 18% of covered Requirements
14 current opportunities · 100% Requirements coverage

Social Worker

3 employers
Communication9 vacancies · 64% of covered RequirementsData analysis9 vacancies · 64% of covered RequirementsExcel9 vacancies · 64% of covered Requirements
12 current opportunities · 92% Requirements coverage

Teacher

3 employers
Computer literacy4 vacancies · 36% of covered Requirements
10 current opportunities · 100% Requirements coverage

Cashier

2 employers
Computer literacy9 vacancies · 90% 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

Skill 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.

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: 1281 of 1389 current opportunities (92%) contain usable structured Requirements.