{"id":171833,"date":"2020-12-05T08:25:48","date_gmt":"2020-12-05T08:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/?p=171833"},"modified":"2020-12-30T12:19:51","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T12:19:51","slug":"the-most-in-demand-jobs-right-now-2020-2021-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/the-most-in-demand-jobs-right-now-2020-2021-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most In Demand Jobs Right Now (2020-2021) in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa&#8217;s unemployment rate climbed to a new high of 30,1% during the first quarter of this year &#8211; due to the damaging effects of Corona on the economy.<\/p>\n<p>That said, Blade Nzimande has released a list of jobs that are in high demand now and that will be increasing in demand as of 2021 for both the private and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/filling-out-the-z83-form-step-by-step-with-pictures\/\">public sector<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We have extracted a few of the in-demand jobs subdivided by industry &#8211; if you want to view the full list, you can do so <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.za\/sites\/default\/files\/gcis_document\/202011\/43937gon1266.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Jobs that are in high demand<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"\/job-category\/information-technology\"><strong>Information Technology<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Chief Information Officer<\/li>\n<li>ICT Project Manager<\/li>\n<li>Data Management Manager<\/li>\n<li>Application Development Manager<\/li>\n<li>Information Technology Manager<\/li>\n<li>Information Systems Director<\/li>\n<li>Multimedia Designer<\/li>\n<li>Web Designer<\/li>\n<li>ICT Systems Analyst<\/li>\n<li>Data Scientist<\/li>\n<li>Software Developer<\/li>\n<li>Database Designer and Administrator<\/li>\n<li>Network Engineer<\/li>\n<li>ICT Security Specialist<\/li>\n<li>Geographic Information Systems Technician<\/li>\n<li>Data Entry Operator<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"\/job-category\/agriculture\"><strong>Agriculture &amp; Food<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Agriculture consultant<\/li>\n<li>Agricultural scientist<\/li>\n<li>Wine Maker<\/li>\n<li>Food and beverage scientist<\/li>\n<li>Agricultural Engineer<\/li>\n<li>Agricultural Engineering Technologist<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"\/job-category\/healthcare\"><strong>Medical<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>General medical practitioner<\/li>\n<li>Registered Nurse<\/li>\n<li>Pharmacist<\/li>\n<li>Life Science Technician<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Care<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Child Care Worker<\/li>\n<li>Family day care worker<\/li>\n<li>Nanny<\/li>\n<li>Residential care officer<\/li>\n<li>Carer for the Aged<\/li>\n<li>Community healthcare worker<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Emergency Worker<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fire Fighter<\/li>\n<li>Hazardous Materials Removal Worker<\/li>\n<li>Diver<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Farming<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Horticultural farmer<\/li>\n<li>Mixed crop and livestock farmer<\/li>\n<li>Tree feller<\/li>\n<li>Crop Produce Analyst<\/li>\n<li>Tobacco Grader<\/li>\n<li>Cotton Grader<\/li>\n<li>Wool Classer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa&#8217;s unemployment rate climbed to a new high of 30,1% during the first quarter of this year &#8211; due to the damaging effects of Corona on the economy. That said, Blade Nzimande has released a list of jobs that are in high demand now and that will be increasing in demand as of 2021 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":171840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171833"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171833"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171992,"href":"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171833\/revisions\/171992"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}