CareerJunction and OfferZen on South African software developer salaries

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Software developer salaries in South Africa

The demand for skills in South Africa's Information Technology sector has grown significantly since pre-Covid levels, but the average salary in the industry has dropped slightly during the same period.

MyBroadband spoke to CareerJunction managing director Paul Byrne regarding the demand for skills in the industry.
 
Anyone have some actual latest salary data on roles with those languages?
 
hj007 said:
Anyone have some actual latest salary data on roles with those languages?
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Language is largely non-causal. It’s mostly driven by the value of specific domain expertise and different domains tend to use different ratios of different languages.
 
cguy said:
Language is largely non-causal. It’s mostly driven by the value of specific domain expertise and different domains tend to use different ratios of different languages.
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Agreed, interesting that CJ still focuses on languages as the comparison rather than type of work. Perhaps that is why they keep lowballing the numbers.
 
xxx developers are now full stack developers xD that includes project management, team management, solution architecture and customer support.
 
I wonder why none of these surveys are ever close to accurate? I mean, its cliched at this point.

As a C# dev, I earned more than the supposed top end of the range 4 years ago, and I wasn't even leading a team.

Also.... something occurred to me.

When I was searching for a job in 2019, I signed up for a similar website to OfferZen but based in the UK. Can't remember what it was but similar basic idea. You sign up, upload your skills, and companies apply to you.

One thing I noticed is that at this website, it was impossible to ask for a salary higher than £100k. £100k sounds like a lot (R2 million per year), but for the UK, it isn't. If you make the right choices, you can make this kind of money in your twenties.

Anyway, so the question is, why limit the salaries like this? One potential answer is this is how they get hiring companies to sign up - they keep your salaries low. Companies know that if they use OfferZen or whatever, there is a limit to how much they can be expected to pay. It might help them save money.

Maybe this is the reason why the numbers in the article seem so low - maybe that's because OfferZen is limiting salaries?

I've never used OfferZen so I don't know if they do have a salary cap or not.
 
Ancalagon said:
I wonder why none of these surveys are ever close to accurate? I mean, its cliched at this point.

As a C# dev, I earned more than the supposed top end of the range 4 years ago, and I wasn't even leading a team.

Also.... something occurred to me.

When I was searching for a job in 2019, I signed up for a similar website to OfferZen but based in the UK. Can't remember what it was but similar basic idea. You sign up, upload your skills, and companies apply to you.

One thing I noticed is that at this website, it was impossible to ask for a salary higher than £100k. £100k sounds like a lot (R2 million per year), but for the UK, it isn't. If you make the right choices, you can make this kind of money in your twenties.

Anyway, so the question is, why limit the salaries like this? One potential answer is this is how they get hiring companies to sign up - they keep your salaries low. Companies know that if they use OfferZen or whatever, there is a limit to how much they can be expected to pay. It might help them save money.

Maybe this is the reason why the numbers in the article seem so low - maybe that's because OfferZen is limiting salaries?

I've never used OfferZen so I don't know if they do have a salary cap or not.
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In my experience the people using these websites are junior or not managing their career and public profile very well. This will drop the salaries a lot. Pretty much any sane job that’s ever come my way has been due to headhunters reaching out to me.

The nature of surveys is also heavy skewed downwards. High earners don’t want to fill them in because they have a higher risk of being identified, and/or being targeted by crime or fraud. They’re also generally busier, and swag is only a driver for juniors (or seniors with issues).
 
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