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: 05 Oct 2026 · 1423 current deduplicated opportunities analysed.

Usable Requirements1310
Requirements coverage92%
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

846 current opportunities contain at least one configured skill signal. The ranking below shows how often each configured signal appears and its share of the 1310 vacancies with usable Requirements.

  1. 1
    Computer literacy31% of vacancies with usable Requirements
    401
  2. 2
    Communication17% of vacancies with usable Requirements
    224
  3. 3
    Microsoft Office16% of vacancies with usable Requirements
    213
  4. 4
    Excel10% of vacancies with usable Requirements
    131
  5. 5
    Customer service7% of vacancies with usable Requirements
    87
  6. 6
    Sales6% of vacancies with usable Requirements
    80
  7. 7
    Supply chain & procurement6% of vacancies with usable Requirements
    76
  8. 8
    Accounting5% of vacancies with usable Requirements
    70
  9. 9
    Project management5% of vacancies with usable Requirements
    64
  10. 10
    Data analysis4% of vacancies with usable Requirements
    54
  11. 11
    Health & safety4% of vacancies with usable Requirements
    53
  12. 12
    People leadership4% of vacancies with usable Requirements
    50
  13. 13
    Stock & inventory2% of vacancies with usable Requirements
    29
  14. 14
    CRM2% of vacancies with usable Requirements
    23
  15. 15
    Stakeholder management1% of vacancies with usable Requirements
    18
Public vs non-public

How requirement signals differ by market segment

This compares 393 public-sector and 593 non-public vacancies with usable Requirements. Percentages are calculated within each segment, so differently sized inventories remain comparable.

  1. 1
    Computer literacyPublic 38% (148) · Non-public 25% (147) · 13 percentage points higher in public
    295
  2. 2
    CommunicationPublic 24% (93) · Non-public 15% (87) · 9 percentage points higher in public
    180
  3. 3
    Microsoft OfficePublic 10% (40) · Non-public 21% (125) · 11 percentage points higher in non-public
    165
  4. 4
    ExcelPublic 10% (38) · Non-public 9% (56) · 1 percentage points higher in public
    94
  5. 5
    Customer servicePublic 3% (11) · Non-public 9% (56) · 6 percentage points higher in non-public
    67
  6. 6
    Supply chain & procurementPublic 9% (36) · Non-public 5% (27) · 4 percentage points higher in public
    63
  7. 7
    Project managementPublic 11% (42) · Non-public 2% (13) · 9 percentage points higher in public
    55
  8. 8
    AccountingPublic 7% (27) · Non-public 5% (27) · 2 percentage points higher in public
    54
  9. 9
    SalesPublic 0% (0) · Non-public 7% (44) · 7 percentage points higher in non-public
    44
  10. 10
    Health & safetyPublic 8% (30) · Non-public 2% (14) · 6 percentage points higher in public
    44
  11. 11
    Data analysisPublic 6% (25) · Non-public 3% (16) · 3 percentage points higher in public
    41
  12. 12
    People leadershipPublic 4% (17) · Non-public 4% (22) · similar share
    39

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.

73 current opportunities · 100% Requirements coverage

Store Manager

5 employers
Computer literacy64 vacancies · 88% of covered RequirementsHealth & safety6 vacancies · 8% of covered RequirementsSupply chain & procurement6 vacancies · 8% of covered Requirements
36 current opportunities · 100% Requirements coverage

Administration Clerk

18 employers
Computer literacy22 vacancies · 61% of covered RequirementsCommunication16 vacancies · 44% of covered RequirementsExcel10 vacancies · 28% of covered RequirementsMicrosoft Office7 vacancies · 19% of covered RequirementsAccounting4 vacancies · 11% of covered Requirements
34 current opportunities · 100% Requirements coverage

Nursing

8 employers
Computer literacy11 vacancies · 32% of covered RequirementsCommunication10 vacancies · 29% of covered RequirementsExcel4 vacancies · 12% of covered RequirementsMicrosoft Office3 vacancies · 9% of covered Requirements
34 current opportunities · 100% Requirements coverage

Pharmacist

3 employers
Computer literacy33 vacancies · 97% of covered RequirementsMicrosoft Office32 vacancies · 94% of covered Requirements
24 current opportunities · 100% Requirements coverage

Cashier

6 employers
Computer literacy20 vacancies · 83% of covered RequirementsCustomer service11 vacancies · 46% of covered RequirementsMicrosoft Office8 vacancies · 33% of covered RequirementsPoint of sale / till8 vacancies · 33% of covered Requirements
22 current opportunities · 95% Requirements coverage

Sales Representative

4 employers
Sales20 vacancies · 95% of covered Requirements
20 current opportunities · 95% Requirements coverage

Accounting & Bookkeeping

14 employers
Accounting16 vacancies · 84% of covered RequirementsComputer literacy9 vacancies · 47% of covered RequirementsExcel7 vacancies · 37% of covered RequirementsCommunication6 vacancies · 32% of covered RequirementsProject management5 vacancies · 26% of covered Requirements
15 current opportunities · 100% Requirements coverage

Artisan

8 employers
Health & safety7 vacancies · 47% of covered RequirementsComputer literacy5 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 28 Sept 2026, these leading configured skills changed most in SpanSam's current inventory.

  1. 1
    Computer literacy31% of covered Requirements now · +4 percentage points
    +58
  2. 2
    Microsoft Office16% of covered Requirements now · +1 percentage points
    +30
  3. 3
    Supply chain & procurement6% of covered Requirements now · +2 percentage points
    +20
  4. 4
    Communication17% of covered Requirements now · +1 percentage points
    +17
  5. 5
    Health & safety4% of covered Requirements now · +1 percentage points
    +13
  6. 6
    Customer service7% of covered Requirements now · +1 percentage points
    +11
  7. 7
    People leadership4% of covered Requirements now · +1 percentage points
    +11
  8. 8
    Project management5% of covered Requirements now · +1 percentage points
    +9
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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: 1310 of 1423 current opportunities (92%) contain usable structured Requirements.