How often do employers ask for Communication?

229 current opportunities mention Communication in structured Requirements. That is 17% of the 1320 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 68 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 LOCAL GOVERNMENT6% of matching vacancies
   13
2. 2
   DEPARTMENT OF WATER AND SANITATION5% of matching vacancies
   12
3. 3
   Woolworths5% of matching vacancies
   12
4. 4
   Managed People Solutions4% of matching vacancies
   9
5. 5
   DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND WELLNESS3% of matching vacancies
   8
6. 6
   FlySafair3% of matching vacancies
   7
7. 7
   NATIONAL PROSECUTING AUTHORITY3% of matching vacancies
   7
8. 8
   WESTERN CAPE MOBILITY DEPARTMENT3% of matching vacancies
   7

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 Cape24% of matching vacancies
   54
2. 2
   Gauteng19% of matching vacancies
   44
3. 3
   KwaZulu-Natal5% of matching vacancies
   11
4. 4
   Eastern Cape3% of matching vacancies
   7
5. 5
   Northern Cape2% of matching vacancies
   5
6. 6
   Free State1% of matching vacancies
   3
7. 7
   Mpumalanga1% of matching vacancies
   2
8. 8
   Limpopo0% of matching vacancies
   1

How the Requirements share differs by market segment

Public-sector: 93 matches among 393 covered vacancies (24%). Non-public: 92 among 603 (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 1256% of this Communication sample
   129
2. 2
   Degree29% of this Communication sample
   66
3. 3
   Diploma27% of this Communication sample
   61
4. 4
   Postgraduate qualification3% of this Communication sample
   7

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 literacy41% of this topic sample
   95
2. 2
   Microsoft Office26% of this topic sample
   60
3. 3
   Excel18% of this topic sample
   42
4. 4
   Customer service13% of this topic sample
   29
5. 5
   Data analysis8% of this topic sample
   19
6. 6
   Accounting7% of this topic sample
   17

How much of this sample is explicitly entry-level?

26 of 229 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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