How often do employers ask for Excel?

131 current opportunities mention Excel in structured Requirements. That is 10% of the 1310 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 45 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 WELLNESS8% of matching vacancies
   11
2. 2
   Core4% of matching vacancies
   5
3. 3
   Hire Resolve4% of matching vacancies
   5
4. 4
   NATIONAL PROSECUTING AUTHORITY4% of matching vacancies
   5
5. 5
   BDO South Africa3% of matching vacancies
   4
6. 6
   DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE3% of matching vacancies
   4
7. 7
   DEPARTMENT OF HIGHER EDUCATION AND TRAINING3% of matching vacancies
   4
8. 8
   Dis-Chem Pharmacies Limited3% of matching vacancies
   4

Career Paths where Excel 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
   Gauteng21% of matching vacancies
   27
2. 2
   Western Cape16% of matching vacancies
   21
3. 3
   KwaZulu-Natal10% of matching vacancies
   13
4. 4
   Mpumalanga2% of matching vacancies
   2
5. 5
   Eastern Cape1% of matching vacancies
   1
6. 6
   Free State1% of matching vacancies
   1
7. 7
   Northern Cape1% of matching vacancies
   1

How the Requirements share differs by market segment

Public-sector: 38 matches among 393 covered vacancies (10%). Non-public: 56 among 593 (9%). 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 Excel

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

1. 1
   Matric / Grade 1257% of this Excel sample
   75
2. 2
   Degree39% of this Excel sample
   51
3. 3
   Diploma32% of this Excel sample
   42
4. 4
   Certificate2% of this Excel sample
   3
5. 5
   Postgraduate qualification2% of this Excel sample
   2

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
   Microsoft Office40% of this topic sample
   53
2. 2
   Computer literacy40% of this topic sample
   52
3. 3
   Communication31% of this topic sample
   40
4. 4
   Accounting15% of this topic sample
   20
5. 5
   Data analysis11% of this topic sample
   14
6. 6
   Supply chain & procurement10% of this topic sample
   13

How much of this sample is explicitly entry-level?

15 of 131 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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