How often do employers ask for Communication?

144 current opportunities mention Communication in structured Requirements. That is 24% of the 590 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 32 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 HEALTH AND WELLNESS14% of matching vacancies
   20
2. 2
   DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONAL SERVICES9% of matching vacancies
   13
3. 3
   SOUTH AFRICAN POLICE SERVICE8% of matching vacancies
   12
4. 4
   DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SETTLEMENTS8% of matching vacancies
   11
5. 5
   DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH7% of matching vacancies
   10
6. 6
   DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT5% of matching vacancies
   7
7. 7
   NATIONAL PROSECUTING AUTHORITY4% of matching vacancies
   6
8. 8
   PEP4% of matching vacancies
   6

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 Cape22% of matching vacancies
   32
2. 2
   Gauteng11% of matching vacancies
   16
3. 3
   Limpopo3% of matching vacancies
   4
4. 4
   KwaZulu-Natal2% of matching vacancies
   3
5. 5
   North West2% of matching vacancies
   3
6. 6
   Eastern Cape1% of matching vacancies
   2
7. 7
   Mpumalanga1% of matching vacancies
   2
8. 8
   Northern Cape1% of matching vacancies
   2

How the Requirements share differs by market segment

Public-sector: 104 matches among 305 covered vacancies (34%). Non-public: 25 among 139 (18%). 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 1244% of this Communication sample
   64
2. 2
   Degree37% of this Communication sample
   53
3. 3
   Diploma29% of this Communication sample
   42
4. 4
   Postgraduate qualification3% of this Communication sample
   4
5. 5
   Certificate1% of this Communication sample
   1

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 literacy55% of this topic sample
   79
2. 2
   Excel28% of this topic sample
   41
3. 3
   Microsoft Office21% of this topic sample
   30
4. 4
   Supply chain & procurement15% of this topic sample
   21
5. 5
   Project management9% of this topic sample
   13
6. 6
   Health & safety7% of this topic sample
   10

How much of this sample is explicitly entry-level?

16 of 144 matching vacancies (11%) 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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