IT & Programming II | ZA | Average Salary Survey 2024

Software Engineer

Posted 23 August 2023
Key knowledge and tasks

"Back end network automation engineer."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Johannesburg	Bachelors Degree	0-1 Year	Intermediate	489,100 ZAR

System Administrator

Posted 05 April 2022
Key knowledge and tasks

"Systems administrators - also called sysadmins - are responsible for ensuring their organization's computer systems are well maintained and operate reliably. Tasks performed by systems administrators include performing regular systems and security monitoring, handling backup procedures and helping set up, maintain and delete user accounts as required. They are also responsible for developing and maintaining relevant procedures and standards. ensuring that hardware and systems work as expected and maintaining archives as needed. Additionally, systems administrators provide technical support related to systems within their organization as needed. They also handle patches and upgrades to ensure that systems are maximally efficient and effective."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Johannesburg	Some College	4-8 Years	Advanced	513,700 ZAR

System Engineer

Posted 08 March 2022
Key knowledge and tasks

"System Engineer IT."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Johannesburg	Bachelors Degree	4-8 Years	Advanced	963,900 ZAR

Network Architect

Posted 21 November 2021
Key knowledge and tasks

"Bandwidth Optimization and cyebrsecurity design, deployment and support."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Johannesburg	High School	12-16 Years	Advanced	958,100 ZAR

Sr. Application Engineer

Posted 29 September 2021
Key knowledge and tasks

"•	Application design of products. 
•	Research and develop ideas for new products
•	Improve performance, efficiency and aesthetics of present systems
•	Customer support with integration and design for manufacturing
•	Customer support with product release
•	Embedded microcontroller code development
•	Design of Evaluation kits, including hardware, firmware, software and documentation
•	Development of marketing and other collateral material."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Cape Town	Masters Degree	4-8 Years	Advanced	794,700 ZAR

Full Stack Engeneer

Posted 29 September 2021
Key knowledge and tasks

"If you need any software I make it."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Johannesburg	Bachelors Degree	0-1 Year	Intermediate	645,900 ZAR

Senior Software Engineer

Posted 19 September 2021
Key knowledge and tasks

"I design, write and maintain software for mobile and desktop systems."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Cape Town	Bachelors Degree	4-8 Years	Expert	1,765,500 ZAR

It Security Specialist

Posted 10 July 2021
Key knowledge and tasks

"Medium level."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Johannesburg	Bachelors Degree	1-2 Years	Intermediate	760,400 ZAR

Devops Engineer

Posted 18 May 2021
Key knowledge and tasks

"System Adminstration, Support, Database Administrator, Development, Server Maintenance."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Johannesburg	High School	8-12 Years	Intermediate	912,500 ZAR

Network And Infrastructure Engineer

Posted 28 March 2021
Key knowledge and tasks

"Comptia Security+
Comptia CySA+."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Johannesburg	High School	8-12 Years	n/a	433,900 ZAR

Implementation Consultant

Posted 19 March 2021
Key knowledge and tasks

"System implementation."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Johannesburg	Bachelors Degree	2-4 Years	n/a	626,200 ZAR

Service Desginer

Posted 12 March 2021
Key knowledge and tasks

"Service Design
Financial Modelling."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Johannesburg	Bachelors Degree	20+ Years	n/a	1,849,000 ZAR

Quality Assurance Engineer

Posted 01 March 2021
Key knowledge and tasks

"Test automation
selenium."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Johannesburg	Bachelors Degree	1-2 Years	n/a	266,300 ZAR

Manager : Cyber Risk, Governance And Compliance

Posted 28 January 2021
Key knowledge and tasks

"CISM
ISO22301
Security +
vulnerability management 
EDR
SIEM."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Tshwane	Bachelors Degree	12-16 Years	n/a	1,026,800 ZAR

Senior Consultant

Posted 25 January 2021
Key knowledge and tasks

"- Technical Implementation, Training and Support
- Information Systems Engineering."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Cape Town	Some College	12-16 Years	n/a	1,030,500 ZAR

It Systems Engineer

Posted 04 November 2020
Key knowledge and tasks

"Windows Server, Mac OS, Desktop Support, Network administration, Network Support,."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Johannesburg	High School	12-16 Years	n/a	441,500 ZAR

Network Engineer

Posted 13 October 2020
Key knowledge and tasks

"Mikrotik, Cisco."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Cape Town	Some College	8-12 Years	n/a	242,800 ZAR

Bi Consultant

Posted 06 August 2020
Key knowledge and tasks

"Reporting, data modelling, ETL."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Johannesburg	Bachelors Degree	2-4 Years	n/a	625,400 ZAR

Senior Consultant

Posted 01 August 2020
Key knowledge and tasks

"Team lead, Software Implementation Architect in Financial Sector(Enterprise apps/Cloud/ETL)."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Johannesburg	Bachelors Degree	8-12 Years	n/a	919,800 ZAR

Network Administartor

Posted 30 June 2020
Key knowledge and tasks

"All Network Admin."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
eThekwini	Some College	12-16 Years	n/a	797,100 ZAR

Manager

Posted 01 June 2020
Key knowledge and tasks

"Manager product development."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Johannesburg	Bachelors Degree	8-12 Years	n/a	441,500 ZAR

It Assistant Manager

Posted 23 April 2020
Key knowledge and tasks

"Active Directory,."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Buffalo, South Africa	Some College	1-2 Years	n/a	172,200 ZAR

It Specialist

Posted 30 March 2020
Key knowledge and tasks

"AWS, System, Windows, Cloud."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Cape Town	Some College	20+ Years	n/a	3,311,200 ZAR

Desktop Support Manager

Posted 25 February 2020
Key knowledge and tasks

"Management of Desktop Engineers / Manage Service Desk / Manage Application Monitoring / Manage Procurement."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Cape Town	Some College	20+ Years	n/a	572,500 ZAR

Computer Systems Engineering Technician

Posted 28 January 2020
Key knowledge and tasks

"Networking, Wireless."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Johannesburg	Bachelors Degree	1-2 Years	n/a	367,900 ZAR

It Support

Posted 27 January 2020
Key knowledge and tasks

"Support, CCTV support, Computer support, printer support."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Tshwane	Some College	4-8 Years	n/a	323,800 ZAR

Test Analyst

Posted 06 December 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"I test the functionality on the front-end of an application."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Cape Town	High School	4-8 Years	n/a	308,200 ZAR

Data Scientist

Posted 30 November 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"Junior data scientist."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Tshwane	Bachelors Degree	12-16 Years	n/a	608,300 ZAR

Data Scientist

Posted 21 November 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"Data Scientist doing data science."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Johannesburg	High School	0-1 Year	n/a	608,300 ZAR

Quality Engineering Analyst

Posted 21 November 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"The Quality Assurance Engineer is responsible for using their program coding and testing skills to help software developers enhance product performance."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Cape Town	Some College	4-8 Years	n/a	486,600 ZAR

Information Security Analyst

Posted 17 October 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"I’m a PKI specialist and work with HSM pay shields."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Johannesburg	Some College	16-20 Years	n/a	811,100 ZAR

Software Engineer/programmer

Posted 12 October 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"Making and repair softwares, programming and rectify and give solutions to systems."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Cape Town	Masters Degree	8-12 Years	n/a	405,500 ZAR

Business Analyst

Posted 04 September 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"I am the sole Business analysis for an apple and Pear supplier (Fruitways) which owns farms, packhouses and has a marketing business unit. My role includes servicing all the business units. 
My main tasks revolve around Business process optimization which includes understanding the current Processes and putting solutions forward given the requirements needed to close a problem gap or take advantage of an opportunity. I work closely with my stakeholders on a daily basis hosting workshops or communicating anything pertaining to current projects. Developing important documents such as a business case and requirements documentation is a weekly deliverable. I am also responsible for the BI section of the business which involves modeling data and delivering analysis reporting for operational or management use."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Cape Town	Bachelors Degree	8-12 Years	n/a	803,000 ZAR

It Audit Manager

Posted 22 August 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"IT internal and external audit."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Cape Town	Bachelors Degree	4-8 Years	n/a	878,600 ZAR

Business Analyst

Posted 18 August 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"Analysis work
Wireframe design."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
eThekwini	Bachelors Degree	4-8 Years	n/a	608,300 ZAR

Security Administrator

Posted 23 July 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"Access Management."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Johannesburg	High School	4-8 Years	n/a	337,900 ZAR

Systems Engineer

Posted 09 July 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"Deploy and patch management of servers."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Johannesburg	Some College	4-8 Years	n/a	567,700 ZAR

Technical Test Analyst

Posted 24 June 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"Performance and Automation Testing."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Johannesburg	Bachelors Degree	8-12 Years	n/a	1,161,400 ZAR

Qa Automation Engineer

Posted 17 June 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"Automating. Simulating everything a human can do with our software to find new release bugs in each sprint."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Cape Town	Some College	2-4 Years	n/a	615,000 ZAR

It Superintendent

Posted 04 June 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"Manage the day to day IT back office operations in the Alloys And Coal Division. This includes the servers, network, storage, backup, data centers and support team staff. 
Key non-technical duties: Budget, Capacity Planning; Change, Business Continuity, Data Centre/Facilities and Incident Management; Escalation Management; Knowledge Transfer; Mentorship; Performance, Procurement Project and Problem Management; Recruitment; Report Writing; Resource Planning; Team Leadership; Translation and Integration of Business Requirements into IT Solutions; Vendor Management. 
Key technical duties: Backup and Recovery; Disaster Recovery Design and Implementation; End User Computing, Enterprise Services Design, Implementation and Support; Monitoring; Network and Security Design, Implementation and Support; Problem Solving; Root Cause Analysis; Troubleshooting and Solutions Architecture."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Johannesburg	Some College	12-16 Years	n/a	1,229,700 ZAR

It Engineer Network, Infrastructure & Security

Posted 24 April 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"It Security, Network, Servers, virtualization."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Nelson Mandela Bay Metro	Some College	20+ Years	n/a	702,900 ZAR

Tier 2 Wintel Engineer

Posted 21 April 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"DHCP, DNS, ACTIVE DIRECTORY, SEP, VMWARE."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Cape Town	Bachelors Degree	1-2 Years	n/a	452,800 ZAR

Second Line Wintel Analyst

Posted 18 April 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"Manage AD, DNS, DHCP, SEP."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Cape Town	Bachelors Degree	2-4 Years	n/a	425,800 ZAR

Sap Consultant

Posted 10 April 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"Implement and advice on SAP products as well as manage delivery team."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Cape Town	Bachelors Degree	4-8 Years	n/a	615,000 ZAR

Telecommunication Software Engineer

Posted 26 March 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"Java development of telecommunication solutions."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Cape Town	Masters Degree	4-8 Years	n/a	973,300 ZAR

Solution Architect

Posted 15 March 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"Design end to end document for systems."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Tshwane	Bachelors Degree	0-1 Year	n/a	324,400 ZAR

Senior Project Analyst

Posted 18 February 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"Data solutions, derived from functional requirements. Tailored into specification documents, data warehouse design, data consolidation and analysis."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Cape Town	Bachelors Degree	4-8 Years	n/a	352,000 ZAR

Retail Operational Design

Posted 15 February 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"Operational Design and Business Process Improvement of Retail."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Cape Town	Bachelors Degree	2-4 Years	n/a	567,700 ZAR

Tx Manager

Posted 11 February 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"Working as Roll-out project Manager."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Johannesburg	Bachelors Degree	12-16 Years	n/a	1,751,900 ZAR

Business Analyst

Posted 06 February 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"Data analysis, SQL."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Cape Town	Bachelors Degree	2-4 Years	n/a	259,500 ZAR

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