How often do employers ask for Microsoft Office?

131 current opportunities mention Microsoft Office in structured Requirements. That is 12% of the 1085 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 37 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
   PEP6% of matching vacancies
   8
2. 2
   DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS, ROADS AND TRANSPORT4% of matching vacancies
   5
3. 3
   Dermalogica South Africa4% of matching vacancies
   5
4. 4
   Dis-Chem Pharmacies Limited4% of matching vacancies
   5
5. 5
   Hire Resolve4% of matching vacancies
   5
6. 6
   DEPARTMENT OF WATER AND SANITATION3% of matching vacancies
   4
7. 7
   South African Employer3% of matching vacancies
   4
8. 8
   DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND WELLNESS2% of matching vacancies
   3

Career Paths where Microsoft Office 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 Cape13% of matching vacancies
   17
2. 2
   Gauteng12% of matching vacancies
   16
3. 3
   KwaZulu-Natal4% of matching vacancies
   5
4. 4
   Mpumalanga3% of matching vacancies
   4
5. 5
   Eastern Cape2% of matching vacancies
   3
6. 6
   Free State2% of matching vacancies
   2
7. 7
   Northern Cape2% of matching vacancies
   2
8. 8
   North West1% of matching vacancies
   1

How the Requirements share differs by market segment

Public-sector: 24 matches among 335 covered vacancies (7%). Non-public: 53 among 399 (13%). The observed share is currently higher in the non-public segment.

This segmentation reflects SpanSam source/employer signals and is not an official national labour-market estimate.

Qualifications mentioned alongside Microsoft Office

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

1. 1
   Matric / Grade 1251% of this Microsoft Office sample
   67
2. 2
   Degree43% of this Microsoft Office sample
   56
3. 3
   Diploma40% of this Microsoft Office sample
   52
4. 4
   Postgraduate qualification6% of this Microsoft Office sample
   8
5. 5
   Certificate5% of this Microsoft Office sample
   6

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 literacy44% of this topic sample
   57
2. 2
   Communication40% of this topic sample
   53
3. 3
   Excel38% of this topic sample
   50
4. 4
   Customer service12% of this topic sample
   16
5. 5
   Project management10% of this topic sample
   13
6. 6
   Supply chain & procurement8% of this topic sample
   11

How much of this sample is explicitly entry-level?

22 of 131 matching vacancies (17%) 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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