Top 8 scarce IT skills in South Africa
The CareerJunction Index (CJI) report for July 2016 was published recently, showing that skilled IT professionals are in high demand in the country.
According to the report, programmers and software developers are at the top in terms of market demand. There is a strong demand for programmers with .Net or C# skills.
Although not as recent as the CJI, the Media, Information and Communications Technology (MICT) SETA’s priority skills list provides a good overview of scarce IT skills in South Africa.
Each year, the Sector Education and Training Authority (SETA) gathers data on scarce skills.
The MICT SETA compiles a scarce skills list through a modelling exercise that ranks priority skills across five sub-sectors.
In compiling the top scarce skills, the following was considered:
- Number of times an occupation is identified as scarce in the WSP submission.
- Occupations identified as scarce skills per sub-sector during interviews.
- Reasons for scarcity given during the survey.
The table below lists the MICT SETA top 8 scarce skills across the MICT SETA sub-sectors.
| Top 8 Scarce IT Skills | |
| Occupation | Specialisation |
| Multimedia Designer | Digital Media Designer Instructional Designer Interactive Media Designer Multimedia Artist |
| ICT Systems Analyst | Capacity Planner Computing Computer Analyst ICT Business Systems Analyst ICT Systems Advisor ICT Systems Architect ICT Systems Consultant ICT Systems Contractor ICT Systems Coordinator ICT System Designer ICT Systems Specialist ICT Systems Strategist Internet Consultant Specialist LAN / WAN Consultant Specialist Systems Programmer |
| Software Developer | Information Architect Software Software Architect Software Designer Software Engineer ICT Risk Specialist |
| Developer Programmer | Applications Developer ICT Developer ICT Programmer |
| Multimedia Specialist | Animation Programmer Computer Games Programmer Digital Media Specialist Graphical Programmer Multimedia Developer Multimedia Programmer |
| Computer Network and Systems Engineer | Communications Analyst (Computers) Computer Network Engineer Computer Systems Integrator Computer Systems / Service Engineer Network Engineer Network Programmer / Analyst Network Support Engineer Systems Engineer Systems Integrator ICT Customer Support Officer |
| Computer Network Technician | Network Support Technician |
| Telecommunications Technical Officer or Technologist | Engineering Technician (Telecommunications) |
Hat tip to John Recruit for the link to the list.
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