{"id":232191,"date":"2018-03-15T16:44:58","date_gmt":"2018-03-15T14:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=232191"},"modified":"2018-03-15T16:44:58","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T14:44:58","slug":"the-most-in-demand-job-skills-in-south-africa-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/232191\/the-most-in-demand-job-skills-in-south-africa-right-now\/","title":{"rendered":"The most in-demand job skills in South Africa right now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CareerJunction has released its latest monthly jobs index for February 2018, pointing to the most sought after positions in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.careerjunction.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the jobs portal<\/a>, the February index settled just below the 100 mark, indicating very little change in recruitment conditions during the month.<\/p>\n<p>Job volumes were unchanged from January, while job search activity only increased by a fraction (1%).<\/p>\n<p>The recruitment firm said that growth continued in the finance, ICT, manufacturing and business &amp; management sectors, while vacancy levels were down by between 12% and 30% year-on-year for architects and engineers, as well as professionals in marketing and sales.<\/p>\n<p>Trending jobs for February included switchboard\/reception, infrastructure\/operations consulting and human resources, it said.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Switchboard \/ Receptionist<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Average salary offerings for intermediate level positions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>GP: R9,071 to R11,711 p.m.<\/li>\n<li>WC: R6,756 to R8,219 p.m.<\/li>\n<li>KZN: R6,619 to R8,122 p.m.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Infrastructure \/ Operations Consulting<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Average salary offerings for intermediate level positions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>GP: R31,351 to R40,658 p.m.<\/li>\n<li>WC: R25,063 to R36,125 p.m.<\/li>\n<li>KZN: R26,843 to R33,255 p.m.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Human Resources<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Average salary offerings for intermediate level positions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>GP: R24,773 to R26,568 p.m.<\/li>\n<li>WC: R18,623 to R23,364 p.m.<\/li>\n<li>KZN: R17,125 to R18,917 p.m.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Most wanted skills<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to CareerJunction, the most wanted skills were the same as in January: <strong>software development<\/strong>, <strong>middle\/department management<\/strong> and <strong>representatives\/sales consulting<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The IT, business &amp; management and finance sectors are undoubtedly the most sought after sectors, followed by the sales, admin, office &amp; support and architecture &amp; engineering sectors,<br \/>\namong others listed,&#8221; CareerJunction said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Job-trends.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-232201\" src=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Job-trends.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Job-trends.png 1704w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Job-trends-300x117.png 300w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Job-trends-768x300.png 768w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Job-trends-1024x400.png 1024w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Job-trends-1200x469.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a> <a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Demand.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-232199\" src=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Demand.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Demand.png 2082w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Demand-300x123.png 300w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Demand-768x315.png 768w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Demand-1024x420.png 1024w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Demand-1200x492.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is a growing demand for skills in the finance, ICT, manufacturing &amp; assembly and business &amp; management sectors, while there has been a drop in demand for architecture &amp; engineering, marketing and sales, the group said.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/229945\/south-africans-in-these-16-jobs-could-now-have-a-ticket-to-the-uk-expert\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">South Africans in these 16 jobs could now have a ticket to the UK: expert<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CareerJunction has released its latest monthly jobs index for February 2018, showing which jobs are currently the most sought after in South Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":187977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872],"tags":[1438],"class_list":["post-232191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-careerjunction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232191","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=232191"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232215,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232191\/revisions\/232215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}