The demand for expertise in South Africa’s Data Know-how (IT) sector has grown considerably since pre-Covid ranges, however the common wage within the trade has dropped barely throughout the identical interval.
MyBroadband spoke to CareerJunction managing director Paul Byrne relating to the demand for expertise within the trade.
“The IT sector — as on the finish of 1Q22 — has grown to 113% of pre-Covid demand,” he mentioned.
“As a degree of reference, demand — as on the finish of 1Q21 — had fallen to 79% of the place it had been pre-Covid (1Q20).”
Nevertheless, the demand for such expertise has declined barely over the previous three months.
“Though Data Know-how continues to be the top-performing employment sector in South Africa, hiring exercise on this space has declined by 3% within the final three months,” CareerJunction’s Employment Insights report for June 2022 reads.
“This decline could also be partly attributed to elevated emigration as journey restrictions are relaxed in addition to the rising development of “digital nomads” within the IT house.”
Bryne defined that regardless of the nominal lower in demand, IT expertise stay essentially the most sought-after in South Africa’s job market.
Essentially the most in-demand software program developer expertise, and their wage ranges, are summarised within the desk beneath.
Most in-demand software program improvement expertise | |
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Function | Wage vary (month-to-month) |
1. Java builders | R44,015 – R64,802 |
2. C# developer | R39,202 – R57,222 |
3. .Web developer | R38,128 – R56,619 |
4. Full stack developer | R36,791 – R59,073 |
Based on CareerJunction’s information, the development of software program improvement salaries from late 2020 to the top of the primary quarter of 2022 exhibits a common decline.
Nevertheless, OfferZen’s State of the Developer Nation report for 2022 tells a barely totally different story.
Its information confirmed that the common salaries of senior software program builders have elevated by 19% since 2019whereas less-experienced builders noticed their wages improve by 7.4% over the identical interval.
Extra particularly, it confirmed that backend builders earn the best salaries amongst senior and junior builders.
OfferZen discovered that JavaScript stays essentially the most used programming language, adopted by C# and TypeScript, and that Go is climbing the ranks of essentially the most desired programming languages.
Nevertheless, Python stays essentially the most desired programming language amongst South African builders.
Based on OfferZen, software program builders working in Cape City are nonetheless the highest-earning in comparison with different South African cities.
Nevertheless, it specified that whereas this has been the development for the previous three years, the hole is closing.

For the reason that lifting of Covid-19 laws, many corporations nonetheless enable their staff to proceed with a hybrid working strategy, which means they want strong cloud computing software program to safe firm and consumer information.
Based on OfferZen, Amazon Net Providers (AWS) dominates in South Africa.
AWS is used for 43.2% of cloud platforms within the nation, adopted by Microsoft Azure with 29.6% and Google Cloud Platform with 14.4%.
OfferZen’s information additionally revealed that round 92% of South African builders work remotely, whether or not it’s in a hybrid format or an entire work-from-home setup.
Extra particularly, 51% of builders work in a remote-only setup, adopted by 41% who break up their time between the workplace and residential.