“The percentage gap between ICT vacancies and candidates has narrowed slightly in the past two years.” - Adrian Schofield, author of the 2022 JCSE-IITPSA ICT Skills Survey and production consultant at the IITPSA.
South Africa has seen a slight improvement in the ICT skills gap over the last two years; however, the struggle to fill tens of thousands of vacancies in the sector persists.. The 12th edition is carried out by Wits University’s Joburg Centre for Software Engineering , in partnership with the Institute of Information Technology Professionals South Africa , with the support of the Information Technology Association.
Although digitisation and automation already began developing during the third industrial revolution, the sector is now witnessing an increasing integration of such technologies in how people work and live. The pandemic brought about a number of new ways of doing things, such as working remotely, which caused an exponential rise in video calls/phone calls, as more people organised meetings via apps or collaboration platforms. There was also a rise in e-learning, online education and e-governance.
“There will always be an ICT skills gap in South Africa, simply because the older generation takes their skills to retirement pastures and we are not filling these skills fast enough from the bottom level. Employers are yet to understand that young people can be very effective in this industry without having to go through 16 years of the formal schooling system,” Schofield points out.
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