Top Skills Needed In South Africa

What are Skills Needed?

Problem-solving means finding solutions when you’re faced with difficulties or setbacks. It involves being able to use a logical process to figure things out.

Examples of ways you can develop or improve your problem-solving skills include: doing research assignments as part of your studies.

Top Skills Needed In South Africa

  • Digital economy
  • Energy
  • Infrastructure development
  • Tourism and agriculture
  • Web developer
  • Quantity surveyor
  • Computer network 
  • Technician
  • Systems and network administration
  • Microbiologist
  • FET phase schoolteachers (Grades 10-12)
  • Senior phase schoolteachers (Grades 8-9)
  • Aeronautical engineer
  • Civil engineer
  • Physicist
  • Electrical engineer
  • Concentrated solar power process controller
  • Mechatronic technician
  • Agricultural scientist

Which skill is most demanded in South Africa?

The most in-demand job skills in South Africa right now

  • Building and Construction +2%
  • Warehousing and Logistics +1%
  • Information Technology -14%
  • Admin, Office, and Support – 17%
  • People looking for jobs.
  • Read: You need more than a matric for the best chance at a job in South Africa.

What skills are most short in South Africa?

Among many others, the following roles are listed on the latest critical skills list:

  • Software Developers (IT)
  • Developer Programmers (IT)
  • Data Scientists (IT)
  • ICT Systems Analysts (IT)
  • Market Research Analysts (Marketing / IT)
  • Actuaries (Finance)
  • Investment Analysts (Finance)
  • Tax Professionals (Finance)

Why are skilled workers leaving South Africa?

Healy said most skilled people leave because of crime, security, corruption, an incompetent government, and a deteriorating outlook for the country.

Gumede added that many people leave because they don’t believe the ruling party has the ability to turn the country around.