Jobs portal CareerJunction has published its latest employment insights report, detailing supply and demand trends in the South African job market.
The research is based on extensive data acquired from Saongroup South Africa, where millions of registered job searchers can view job postings from around 5,000 of the nation’s leading recruiters (both agencies and companies).
The report showed that there was a slight decline in recruitment activity over the past month (-2%), while hiring activity year-on-year has remained 23% higher in July 2022 than it was in July 2021.
In-demand skills
According to CareerJunction, the Finance sector saw the biggest increase in hiring activity, followed by Business and Management as well as Information Technology.
In each sector, several roles have been advertised more frequently:
Finance: +8%
- Financial/Project Accounting
- Internal auditing
- Bookkeeping
- Purchasing and procurement
- Cost and management accounting
- Accounts payable/receivable
- Payroll and wage
Information Technology: +4%
- Software development
- Systems/ Network Administration
- Business analysis
- Data analysis/ data warehousing
- IT project administration management
- Technical/Business architecture
- Systems analysis
Business and Management: +3%
- Middle/Department management
- Team leader and supervisor
- Infrastructure/Operations consulting
- Staff recruitment/selection
- Executive management/director
- Senior management
- Business development
There has been no significant decline in hiring activity for any job sector over the past three years, said CareerJunction.
Warehousing and Logistics
The jobs portal noted significant growth in job opportunities in the warehousing and logistics sectors of South Africa.
The roles within certain sub-sectors that have been particularly driving the job growth include:
- Warehouse manager
- Stock controller
- Logistics Manager
The majority of warehousing and logistics positions are for Gauteng (58%), followed by the Western Cape (13%) and KwaZulu Natal (15%).
CareerJunction said that logistics has become more important since the growing population demands further sufficient food supplies and supply chain mechanisms to access food & nutritional products as well as other consumer goods.
“The digitalisation age has brought many products “closer” to consumers in that products can be ordered with a few clicks. As such, delivery drivers and logistics companies have grown in demand significantly in recent years.”
Although some reshaping of work environments can be expected (more E-commerce shopping and virtual services), labour demand within these occupational sectors will remain stable over the near future, said CareerJunction.
Salaries in the sector for select jobs include:
- Stock Controller: R10,199 to R14,280
- Storeman: R10,057 to R14,136
- Fleet Controller: R12,611 to R13,545
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