IT & PROGRAMMING II / SALARY
CAPE TOWN

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18.3 ZAR = 1 USD

817,575 ZAR

$44,688 USD

Johannesburg

904,972 ZAR

585,446 ZAR

$32,000 USD

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Average Salary / IT & Programming II / Cape Town

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Average salary for IT & Programming II / Cape Town is 817,575 ZAR per year. The most typical earning is 585,446 ZAR. All data are based on 46 salary surveys. Salaries are different between men and women. Men receive an average salary of 847,067 ZAR. Women receive a salary of 953,179 ZAR.

Based on education, the highest salaries receive people with Doctorate Degree with salary of 1,242,244 ZAR. The second most paid education level is Bachelors Degree with salary of 907,441 ZAR.

Different experiences affect earning as well. People with 16-20 Years of experience receive salary of 1,487,399 ZAR. Employees with 20+ Years of experience receive 1,306,277 ZAR.

Levels / IT & Programming II / Cape Town (Gross ZAR)

Salary Levels (ZAR) per Year	Surveys	[%]
54,900 ZAR - 91,499 ZAR	0	n/a
91,500 ZAR - 182,899 ZAR	0	n/a
183,000 ZAR - 274,399 ZAR	2	100% 4.35%
274,400 ZAR - 365,899 ZAR	5	95.65% 10.87%
365,900 ZAR - 457,399 ZAR	5	84.78% 10.87%
457,400 ZAR - 548,799 ZAR	5	73.91% 10.87%
THE MOST TYPICAL SALARY
548,900 ZAR - 640,299 ZAR	6	63.04% 13.04%
640,300 ZAR - 731,799 ZAR	5	50% 10.87%
731,800 ZAR - 823,299 ZAR	3	39.13% 6.52%
823,300 ZAR - 914,699 ZAR	3	32.61% 6.52%
914,800 ZAR - 1,006,199 ZAR	1	26.09% 2.17%
1,006,200 ZAR - 1,097,699 ZAR	3	23.91% 6.52%
1,097,700 ZAR - 1,189,199 ZAR	1	17.39% 2.17%
1,189,200 ZAR - 1,280,599 ZAR	0	n/a
1,280,700 ZAR - 1,372,099 ZAR	0	n/a
1,372,100 ZAR - 1,463,599 ZAR	1	15.22% 2.17%
1,463,600 ZAR - 1,555,099 ZAR	0	n/a
1,555,100 ZAR - 1,646,499 ZAR	1	13.04% 2.17%
1,646,600 ZAR - 1,737,999 ZAR	1	10.87% 2.17%
1,738,000 ZAR - 1,829,499 ZAR	1	8.7% 2.17%
1,829,500 ZAR - 1,920,999 ZAR	1	6.52% 2.17%
1,921,000 ZAR - 2,012,499 ZAR	0	n/a
2,012,500 ZAR - 2,103,899 ZAR	0	n/a
2,103,900 ZAR - 2,195,399 ZAR	1	4.35% 2.17%
2,195,400 ZAR - 2,286,899 ZAR	0	n/a
2,286,900 ZAR - 2,378,399 ZAR	0	n/a
2,378,400 ZAR - 2,469,799 ZAR	0	n/a
2,469,900 ZAR - 2,561,299 ZAR	0	n/a
2,561,300 ZAR - 2,652,799 ZAR	0	n/a
2,652,800 ZAR - 2,744,299 ZAR	0	n/a
HIGH SALARIES
2,744,300 ZAR - 2,927,199 ZAR	0	n/a
2,927,200 ZAR - 3,110,199 ZAR	0	n/a
3,110,200 ZAR - 3,293,099 ZAR	0	n/a
3,293,100 ZAR - 3,476,099 ZAR	1	2.17% 2.17%
3,476,100 ZAR - 3,658,999 ZAR	0	n/a
3,659,000 ZAR - 3,841,999 ZAR	0	n/a
3,842,000 ZAR - 4,024,899 ZAR	0	n/a
4,024,900 ZAR - 4,207,899 ZAR	0	n/a
4,207,900 ZAR - 4,390,799 ZAR	0	n/a
4,390,800 ZAR - 4,573,799 ZAR	0	n/a
4,573,800 ZAR - 6,403,299 ZAR	0	n/a

Gender / IT & Programming II / Cape Town (Gross ZAR)

#		Surveys		AVERAGE SALARY / YEAR
1	Women	5	953,179 ZAR
2	Men	28	847,067 ZAR

Education / IT & Programming II / Cape Town (Gross ZAR)

#		Surveys
1	Doctorate Degree	2	1,242,244 ZAR
2	Bachelors Degree	19	907,441 ZAR
3	Some College	16	775,716 ZAR
4	Masters Degree	5	669,604 ZAR
5	High School	4	525,072 ZAR

Experience / IT & Programming II / Cape Town (Gross ZAR)

#		Surveys
1	16-20 Years	2	1,487,399 ZAR
2	20+ Years	4	1,306,277 ZAR
3	12-16 Years	7	929,396 ZAR
4	8-12 Years	7	775,716 ZAR
5	4-8 Years	13	773,886 ZAR
6	1-2 Years	4	649,479 ZAR
7	2-4 Years	7	545,196 ZAR
8	0-1 Year	2	499,458 ZAR

Age / IT & Programming II / Cape Town (Gross ZAR)

#		Surveys
1	41-45	3	1,723,407 ZAR
2	51-55	1	885,487 ZAR
3	31-35	11	859,874 ZAR
4	26-30	11	808,647 ZAR
5	n/a	13	704,365 ZAR
6	36-40	5	601,912 ZAR
7	46-50	2	515,924 ZAR

Work Type / IT & Programming II / Cape Town (Gross ZAR)

#		Surveys
1	Self Employed	1	3,311,431 ZAR
2	Contract	7	984,281 ZAR
3	Permanent	38	720,830 ZAR

Careers / IT & Programming II / Cape Town (Gross ZAR)

#		Surveys
1	Unix or Linux System Administrator	1	2,169,810 ZAR
2	Computer Architect	2	1,642,908 ZAR
3	System Administrator	5	1,178,210 ZAR
4	Security Specialist	1	1,030,019 ZAR
5	Software Engineer	8	806,818 ZAR
6	Other IT Career	13	737,296 ZAR
7	CISCO Certified Specialist	2	673,263 ZAR
8	IT Researching	1	643,991 ZAR
9	System Analyst	5	638,502 ZAR
10	Computer Engineer	1	614,718 ZAR
11	SAP Consulting	1	614,718 ZAR
12	Network Administrator	2	499,458 ZAR
13	Consulting, Speaker	1	459,209 ZAR
14	Windows System Administrator	2	439,084 ZAR
15	Hardware Engineer	1	437,255 ZAR

People's individual salary examples (surveys)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sales Specialist

Posted 04 November 2018
Key knowledge and tasks

"Hewlett Packard Enterprise Sales Specialist -."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Cape Town	Doctorate Degree	12-16 Years	n/a	1,840,000 ZAR

Senior Business/system Analyst

Posted 23 October 2018
Key knowledge and tasks

"I work with the users to elicit there requirements as well as design the underlying system that is required."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Cape Town	Some College	16-20 Years	n/a	1,380,000 ZAR

Senior Researcher

Posted 11 October 2018
Key knowledge and tasks

"Economic research on ICT access and Use. Competition analysis."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Cape Town	Doctorate Degree	2-4 Years	n/a	644,000 ZAR

Software Engineer

Posted 02 May 2018
Key knowledge and tasks

"Work on ecommerce and posillion systems."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Cape Town	Some College	12-16 Years	n/a	493,100 ZAR

Service Manager

Posted 21 September 2017
Key knowledge and tasks

"Consulting, Advice, Planning, Administration, Maintenance, SUpport."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Cape Town	Some College	12-16 Years	n/a	687,800 ZAR

Qa Manager

Posted 05 August 2017
Key knowledge and tasks

"Manage QA team testing web and mobile applications."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Cape Town	Some College	20+ Years	n/a	884,800 ZAR

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