How often do employers ask for Microsoft Office?

214 current opportunities mention Microsoft Office in structured Requirements. That is 16% 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 52 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
   Dis-Chem Pharmacies Limited25% of matching vacancies
   53
2. 2
   DEPARTMENT OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT6% of matching vacancies
   13
3. 3
   RCL Foods5% of matching vacancies
   10
4. 4
   PEP3% of matching vacancies
   7
5. 5
   DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND WELLNESS3% of matching vacancies
   6
6. 6
   Hire Resolve2% of matching vacancies
   5
7. 7
   Dermalogica South Africa2% of matching vacancies
   4
8. 8
   NATIONAL PROSECUTING AUTHORITY2% of matching vacancies
   4

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
   Gauteng24% of matching vacancies
   52
2. 2
   Western Cape20% of matching vacancies
   42
3. 3
   KwaZulu-Natal6% of matching vacancies
   13
4. 4
   Eastern Cape4% of matching vacancies
   8
5. 5
   Free State3% of matching vacancies
   6
6. 6
   North West3% of matching vacancies
   6
7. 7
   Limpopo1% of matching vacancies
   3
8. 8
   Mpumalanga1% of matching vacancies
   2

How the Requirements share differs by market segment

Public-sector: 40 matches among 393 covered vacancies (10%). Non-public: 126 among 603 (21%). 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 1268% of this Microsoft Office sample
   145
2. 2
   Degree29% of this Microsoft Office sample
   61
3. 3
   Diploma27% of this Microsoft Office sample
   57
4. 4
   Certificate3% of this Microsoft Office sample
   7
5. 5
   Postgraduate qualification3% of this Microsoft Office 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 literacy59% of this topic sample
   127
2. 2
   Communication28% of this topic sample
   60
3. 3
   Excel25% of this topic sample
   54
4. 4
   Customer service10% of this topic sample
   22
5. 5
   Data analysis7% of this topic sample
   16
6. 6
   People leadership7% of this topic sample
   16

How much of this sample is explicitly entry-level?

47 of 214 matching vacancies (22%) 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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