How often do employers ask for Excel?

175 current opportunities mention Excel in structured Requirements. That is 11% 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 56 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 HEALTH11% of matching vacancies
   19
2. 2
   SOUTH AFRICAN POLICE SERVICE8% of matching vacancies
   14
3. 3
   DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND WELLNESS7% of matching vacancies
   13
4. 4
   RPO Recruitment3% of matching vacancies
   6
5. 5
   Hire Resolve3% of matching vacancies
   5
6. 6
   DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONAL SERVICES2% of matching vacancies
   4
7. 7
   DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS, ROADS AND TRANSPORT2% of matching vacancies
   4
8. 8
   Core2% of matching vacancies
   3

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
   Gauteng15% of matching vacancies
   27
2. 2
   Western Cape14% of matching vacancies
   24
3. 3
   KwaZulu-Natal6% of matching vacancies
   10
4. 4
   Mpumalanga4% of matching vacancies
   7
5. 5
   Limpopo3% of matching vacancies
   5
6. 6
   Free State2% of matching vacancies
   4
7. 7
   North West2% of matching vacancies
   4
8. 8
   Eastern Cape2% of matching vacancies
   3

How the Requirements share differs by market segment

Public-sector: 75 matches among 614 covered vacancies (12%). Non-public: 57 among 555 (10%). 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 1260% of this Excel sample
   105
2. 2
   Degree32% of this Excel sample
   56
3. 3
   Diploma25% of this Excel sample
   44
4. 4
   Certificate2% of this Excel sample
   3
5. 5
   Postgraduate qualification2% of this Excel sample
   3

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
   86
2. 2
   Microsoft Office46% of this topic sample
   81
3. 3
   Communication41% of this topic sample
   72
4. 4
   Accounting13% of this topic sample
   22
5. 5
   Supply chain & procurement12% of this topic sample
   21
6. 6
   Data analysis9% of this topic sample
   16

How much of this sample is explicitly entry-level?

16 of 175 matching vacancies (9%) 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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