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Fin24 reports that thousands of jobs must be filled in South Africa's IT sector, according to a new skills survey. The 2021 ICT Skills Survey assessed the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown on working conditions and skills supply and demand in SA.
It found nearly 10,000 hard-to-fill positions in the ICT sector and attributed an ongoing skills gap in the sector to insufficient numbers coming through the skills pipeline. The survey, by Wits University's Joburg Centre for Software Engineering (JCSE) in partnership with the Institute of Information Technology Professionals South Africa (IITPSA), said South African ICT employers and practitioners had adapted well to the Covid-19 pandemic and associated lockdowns. Employees have adapted to working from home, and many companies reported an improvement in productivity, saying this model would likely remain in place in the long term. The report lists the top hard-to-fill vacancies in the Media Information and Communication Technologies sector.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard compiled by Carin Smith at Fin24
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