How often do employers ask for Communication?

227 current opportunities mention Communication in structured Requirements. That is 18% of the 1281 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 66 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 WELLNESS9% of matching vacancies
   20
2. 2
   DEPARTMENT OF FORESTRY, FISHERIES AND THE ENVIRONMENT5% of matching vacancies
   12
3. 3
   Managed People Solutions5% of matching vacancies
   12
4. 4
   DEPARTMENT OF HIGHER EDUCATION AND TRAINING5% of matching vacancies
   11
5. 5
   NATIONAL PROSECUTING AUTHORITY4% of matching vacancies
   9
6. 6
   PROVINCIAL ADMINISTRATION: LIMPOPO4% of matching vacancies
   9
7. 7
   DEPARTMENT OF EMPLOYMENT AND LABOUR3% of matching vacancies
   7
8. 8
   DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH3% 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
   Gauteng19% of matching vacancies
   42
2. 2
   Western Cape12% of matching vacancies
   27
3. 3
   KwaZulu-Natal4% of matching vacancies
   9
4. 4
   Eastern Cape3% of matching vacancies
   7
5. 5
   Free State2% of matching vacancies
   5
6. 6
   Limpopo2% of matching vacancies
   4
7. 7
   North West1% of matching vacancies
   3
8. 8
   Northern Cape1% of matching vacancies
   3

How the Requirements share differs by market segment

Public-sector: 100 matches among 427 covered vacancies (23%). Non-public: 86 among 541 (16%). 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 1246% of this Communication sample
   105
2. 2
   Degree30% of this Communication sample
   69
3. 3
   Diploma30% of this Communication sample
   69
4. 4
   Postgraduate qualification2% of this Communication sample
   5
5. 5
   Certificate0% 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 literacy38% of this topic sample
   86
2. 2
   Excel25% of this topic sample
   57
3. 3
   Microsoft Office22% of this topic sample
   51
4. 4
   Data analysis11% of this topic sample
   25
5. 5
   Customer service10% of this topic sample
   23
6. 6
   Accounting7% of this topic sample
   17

How much of this sample is explicitly entry-level?

38 of 227 matching vacancies (17%) meet SpanSam's conservative entry-level classifier. Ordinary “1–2 years experience” wording does not count as entry-level.

Explore Entry-Level Intelligence →

Representative live vacancies

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

Related skill reports