How often do employers ask for Excel?

140 current opportunities mention Excel in structured Requirements. That is 11% 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 48 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 WELLNESS16% of matching vacancies
   23
2. 2
   PROVINCIAL ADMINISTRATION: LIMPOPO6% of matching vacancies
   9
3. 3
   NATIONAL PROSECUTING AUTHORITY5% of matching vacancies
   7
4. 4
   BDO South Africa3% of matching vacancies
   4
5. 5
   DEPARTMENT OF HIGHER EDUCATION AND TRAINING3% of matching vacancies
   4
6. 6
   Hire Resolve3% of matching vacancies
   4
7. 7
   DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH2% of matching vacancies
   3
8. 8
   Dis-Chem Pharmacies Limited2% 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
   Gauteng21% of matching vacancies
   29
2. 2
   Western Cape10% of matching vacancies
   14
3. 3
   KwaZulu-Natal6% of matching vacancies
   8
4. 4
   Eastern Cape3% of matching vacancies
   4
5. 5
   Free State1% of matching vacancies
   2
6. 6
   Limpopo1% of matching vacancies
   2
7. 7
   Mpumalanga1% of matching vacancies
   2
8. 8
   Northern Cape1% of matching vacancies
   1

How the Requirements share differs by market segment

Public-sector: 55 matches among 427 covered vacancies (13%). Non-public: 50 among 541 (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 1245% of this Excel sample
   63
2. 2
   Degree39% of this Excel sample
   54
3. 3
   Diploma32% of this Excel sample
   45
4. 4
   Postgraduate qualification5% of this Excel sample
   7
5. 5
   Certificate2% 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 literacy45% of this topic sample
   63
2. 2
   Communication41% of this topic sample
   57
3. 3
   Microsoft Office36% of this topic sample
   51
4. 4
   Accounting16% of this topic sample
   23
5. 5
   Data analysis16% of this topic sample
   22
6. 6
   Supply chain & procurement9% of this topic sample
   13

How much of this sample is explicitly entry-level?

13 of 140 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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