{"id":173583,"date":"2017-05-06T15:00:44","date_gmt":"2017-05-06T13:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=173583"},"modified":"2017-05-05T17:34:43","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T15:34:43","slug":"the-most-in-demand-skills-and-jobs-in-south-africa-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/173583\/the-most-in-demand-skills-and-jobs-in-south-africa-right-now\/","title":{"rendered":"The most in-demand skills and jobs in South Africa right now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CareerJunction has updated its internal jobs index to reflect the most in-demand skills and jobs in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The CJI analysis is based on comprehensive data gathered from the CareerJunction website, using data collected from 3,000 of the country\u2019s top Recruiters (both agencies and corporate companies) and the profiles of over 2,3 million registered job seekers.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, jobs for finance professionals are currently on the rise across the country, with trending jobs in March including\u00a0Cost &amp; Management Accountants, Financial Analysts and Internal Auditors.<\/p>\n<p>The report also noted that year-on-year, employment prospects have notably improved for ICT and Sales personnel and that currently, over 27% of job postings are allocated to IT professionals with software development remaining the most sought after skill set on CareerJunction.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Trending Jobs<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Calculator-e1487832582124.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-159793\" src=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Calculator-640x427.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trending jobs provide an indication \u00a0of positions that have become more popular \u00a0in the online job market and has \u00a0seen a recent spike in demand. (Average salary offerings are based on positions for an intermediate level position).<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Cost &amp; Management Accounting<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>GP<\/strong> &#8211;\u00a0R 39,133 \u00a0to R 45,941 \u00a0p.m<\/li>\n<li><strong>WC<\/strong> &#8211;\u00a0R 35,317 to R 40,179 p.m<\/li>\n<li><strong>KZN<\/strong> &#8211;\u00a0R 33,389 \u00a0to R 43,250 \u00a0p.m<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Financial Analysis\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>G<\/strong><strong>P &#8211; \u00a0<\/strong>R44,728 to R 53,850 p.m<\/li>\n<li><strong>WC &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>R34,087 \u00a0to R 44,345 p.m<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Internal Auditing<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>G<\/strong><strong>P &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>R 34,852 to R 40,516 p.m<\/li>\n<li><strong>W<\/strong><strong>C &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>R 31,649 \u00a0to R 37,917 \u00a0p.m<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Most Wanted Skills<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Software-architect.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-25817 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Software-architect.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Software-architect.jpg 600w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Software-architect-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The report showed that\u00a0\u00a0the following occupational \ufb01elds are by far the most in-demand skill sets in the job market currently.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Software Development<\/strong> remains the most sought \u00a0after skill set on CareerJunction. Currently, over 27% of job postings are allocated to IT professionals. Most of those vacancies are allocated to IT professionals specialising in Software Development.<\/p>\n<p>The report also noted that\u00a0employment prospects are evident across South Africa within the field of Department Management, particularly for <strong>Finance Managers<\/strong>. In March 2017, about\u00a022% of all managerial job posting are addressed to Financial Managers.<\/p>\n<p>It also noted that job advertising for <strong>Sales Representatives<\/strong> and Sales Consultants continued to strengthen \u00a0during March 2017. Job seekers within the Sales Consulting field are currently experiencing great employment prospects. However, the job market is very competitive, warns the report.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Annual Trends\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>In addition to updating its list of most in-demand jobs right now, CareerJunction has also\u00a0 published an updated list of the jobs that have seen an increasing and decreasing amount of demand in the past year.<\/p>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Demand.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-173589 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Demand.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"579\" height=\"718\" srcset=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Demand.jpg 579w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Demand-242x300.jpg 242w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 579px) 100vw, 579px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/170701\/13-words-you-should-always-include-on-your-cv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">13 words you should always include on your CV<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CareerJunction has updated its internal jobs index to reflect the most in-demand skills and jobs in South Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":108167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-173583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173583"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173593,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173583\/revisions\/173593"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}