{"id":171563,"date":"2017-11-02T14:23:29","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T14:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/?p=171563"},"modified":"2018-10-28T14:45:10","modified_gmt":"2018-10-28T14:45:10","slug":"sas-5-most-in-demand-jobs-for-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/sas-5-most-in-demand-jobs-for-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"SA’s 5 Most In-demand Jobs For 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

What are the 5 most in-demand jobs in South Africa for 2017? These are not the jobs with the highest salaries. These are job which are most in-demand by companies across South Africa.<\/p>\n

Jesse Green is the Country Manager for Adzuna SA, a South African job advertising search engines. He says that\u00a0by matching supply and demand, Adzuna could provide a snapshot of which SA jobs were particularly in demand.<\/p>\n

Green continues: “The demand for a skill is the number of jobs posted for it by companies. The supply of a skill is the number of job seeker searches made for it.”<\/p>\n

Interestingly, 4 of 5 most in-demand jobs as specified by Adzuna is in the field of technology.<\/p>\n

The list below gives the five “rarest’ skills according to\u00a0Adzuna<\/a>‘s metrics.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

1. Java developer<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Rareness factor: 128.8. This means that for every 128.8 job adverts on Adzuna from employers for Java coders, there was one job seeker.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Average salary: R513 000<\/em><\/p>\n

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2. Developer<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Rareness factor: 66.5 – This means that, for every 66.5 job adverts on Adzuna from employers for developers, there was one job seeker.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Average salary: R467 000<\/em><\/p>\n

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3. PHP developer<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Rareness factor: 64.3 – This means that, for every 64.3 job adverts on Adzuna from employers for PHP developers, there was one job seeker.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Average salary: R410 000<\/em><\/p>\n

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4. Web developer<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Rareness factor: 53.1 – This means that, for every 53.1 job adverts on Adzuna from employers for web developers, there was one job seeker.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Average salary: R395 000<\/em><\/p>\n

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5. Financial accountant<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Rareness factor: 51.8 – This means that, for every 51.8 job adverts on Adzuna from employers for financial accountants, there was one job seeker.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Average salary: R471 000<\/em><\/p>\n

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As you can see 4\/5 of the most in demand jobs fall in the information technology sector<\/a>, this an indeed an area to look into in terms of upskilling yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What are the 5 most in-demand jobs in South Africa for 2017? These are not the jobs with the highest salaries. These are job which are most in-demand by companies across South Africa. Jesse Green is the Country Manager for Adzuna SA, a South African job advertising search engines. He says that\u00a0by matching supply and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":171570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171563"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171563"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171702,"href":"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171563\/revisions\/171702"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}