How often do employers ask for Communication?

364 current opportunities mention Communication in structured Requirements. That is 24% of the 1542 current opportunities where SpanSam has usable Requirements.

Missing Requirements remain unknown. Responsibilities, employer descriptions, marketing copy and related-job text do not add to this count.

Employers represented in this signal

The matches span 70 distinct meaningful employer names in the current inventory. This breadth helps prevent a single hiring burst from being presented as broad market demand.

1. 1
   DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS, ROADS AND TRANSPORT12% of matching vacancies
   42
2. 2
   DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY SAFETY6% of matching vacancies
   23
3. 3
   DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT6% of matching vacancies
   21
4. 4
   DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND WELLNESS5% of matching vacancies
   18
5. 5
   DEPARTMENT OF WATER AND SANITATION5% of matching vacancies
   18
6. 6
   SOUTH AFRICAN POLICE SERVICE5% of matching vacancies
   18
7. 7
   DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH5% of matching vacancies
   17
8. 8
   DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONAL SERVICES4% of matching vacancies
   16

Career Paths where Communication appears

Career links are shown only where at least three current matching vacancies fall into an existing published SpanSam Career Path.

Where the matching vacancies are located

These counts use the normalized province/region attached to current matching vacancies. Nationwide and unknown locations are not forced into a province.

1. 1
   Western Cape14% of matching vacancies
   52
2. 2
   Gauteng13% of matching vacancies
   48
3. 3
   Mpumalanga4% of matching vacancies
   13
4. 4
   KwaZulu-Natal2% of matching vacancies
   7
5. 5
   Limpopo2% of matching vacancies
   6
6. 6
   Free State1% of matching vacancies
   4
7. 7
   North West1% of matching vacancies
   3
8. 8
   Eastern Cape1% of matching vacancies
   2

How the Requirements share differs by market segment

Public-sector: 235 matches among 614 covered vacancies (38%). Non-public: 83 among 555 (15%). The observed share is currently higher in the public-sector segment.

This segmentation reflects SpanSam source/employer signals and is not an official national labour-market estimate.

Qualifications mentioned alongside Communication

These are co-occurring qualification signals inside the same matching vacancies. They are mentions, not automatically minimum credentials.

1. 1
   Matric / Grade 1255% of this Communication sample
   202
2. 2
   Diploma25% of this Communication sample
   92
3. 3
   Degree24% of this Communication sample
   87
4. 4
   Certificate3% of this Communication sample
   11
5. 5
   Postgraduate qualification2% of this Communication sample
   8

Skills that appear in the same vacancies

These configured skill signals co-occur in Requirements for this topic's matching vacancies. Co-occurrence does not mean one skill causes or requires another.

1. 1
   Computer literacy49% of this topic sample
   177
2. 2
   Microsoft Office22% of this topic sample
   81
3. 3
   Excel20% of this topic sample
   72
4. 4
   Health & safety13% of this topic sample
   47
5. 5
   Customer service8% of this topic sample
   30
6. 6
   Supply chain & procurement8% of this topic sample
   28

How much of this sample is explicitly entry-level?

42 of 364 matching vacancies (12%) meet SpanSam's conservative entry-level classifier. Ordinary “1–2 years experience” wording does not count as entry-level.

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Representative live vacancies

These are current examples behind the aggregate. Always open the vacancy itself for the complete Requirements, eligibility and application instructions.

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