New data from online jobs portal, Adzuna, provides insight into the most sought-after skills by companies and their demand from job seekers in South Africa.<\/p>\n
The company lists the skills that push both factors the most, which combine to reveal the ‘rarest’ skills in the country.<\/p>\n
Adzuna<\/a> looked at the listed job requirements in over 130,000 job listings, assessing the demand for a particular skill, versus job seekers looking for jobs in that specific field.<\/p>\n This is what the jobs site refers to as the “Rareness Factor” – where a factor of 2.0 effectively means there are twice as many vacancies for job seekers looking for those positions.<\/p>\n If a skill is in high demand but low in supply, this makes it rarer than skills which are low in both available candidates and low in demand.<\/p>\n Many of the job skills that were rarest in 2016 have remained at the top of the list in 2017 – particularly in the field of software development, where Java and php developers are in great demand, but with little supply.<\/p>\n Developer and other tech positions make up seven of the top 10 rarest job skills, with the other skill types found in the financial, management and consultancy fields.<\/p>\n The rarity of the skills listed by Adzuna also correlate to the average salaries paid out, with rare skills attracting some of the highest salaries.<\/p>\n However, this isn’t true across the board – for example, engineering jobs still have some of the highest salaries listed, but ‘only’ carry a rareness factor of five, the data showed.<\/p>\n “As expected, STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) skills are still the most sought after and best paid in South Africa. And this is a global trend that is simply exacerbated in SA,” said\u00a0Jesse Green, country manager for Adzuna South Africa.<\/p>\n