Market intelligence

South African tech market trends

A live snapshot of what's being hired for across SA tech — derived from the last 30 days of fresh listings on PNet, Indeed SA, and OfferZen. Comparison data is "this 30 days vs the 30 days before".

Last refreshed: 2026/05/27, 17:31:07 SAST · auto-refreshes every 6 hours · based on 746 listings

The headline

SQL demand is up 999% this month.

Top 10 trending skills

Skills appearing most on fresh listings — and how that's changed vs the prior month.

Roles in demand

Primary-role buckets by listing count this month.

Companies hiring hardest

Companies posting the most live tech roles right now.

Cities with the most listings

Where SA tech work is concentrated.

Where the work actually happens

Workplace policy across this month's fresh listings.

  • Remote
    31%
    131 listings
  • Hybrid
    60%
    255 listings
  • Onsite
    9%
    36 listings

324 additional listings without an explicit workplace policy.

Methodology: I aggregate South African tech job listings daily and classify each listing using an LLM enrichment step before storing it. Rows older than 45 days are archived (not deleted) so historical analysis remains possible.

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