JobShifu/Research/Relisting/South Africa

Updated 2026-08-18

How often are jobs in South Africa relisted?

About one in 15 of the 1,183 open roles in South Africa has been posted, closed, and posted again — the same requisition, on the same employer board.

6.8% of 1,183 open roles in South Africa, across 132 employers, have been relisted at least once. The rate across every role JobShifu tracks is 5.1%.

By function

FunctionOpen rolesEmployersRelisted
Engineering311612.9%
Customer Support462410.9%
Finance & Accounting112429.8%
Design34238.8%
Sales & Account Mgmt141948.5%
Marketing53385.7%
Operations & Admin63464.8%
(not tagged)3671324.6%
Data & Analytics71364.2%
Software Engineering95572.1%
EducationWithheld — too few postings to report
Food & HospitalityWithheld — too few employers to report
HR & RecruitingWithheld — too few postings to report
Logistics & WarehouseWithheld — too few postings to report
Medical & ClinicalWithheld — too few postings to report
ProductWithheld — too few postings to report
Project & Program MgmtWithheld — too few postings to report
RetailWithheld — too few postings to report
Skilled Trades & MfgWithheld — too few postings to report

How this was measured

JobShifu crawls employer applicant-tracking systems directly rather than buying a feed, so it sees a requisition disappear from a careers page and come back. A posting counts as relisted when the same requisition identifier was observed closed and later reopened; a second opening under a new identifier is a different job and is not counted.

9 rows were withheld above. Any figure resting on fewer than 25 postings, or spanning fewer than 5 employers, is reported as withheld rather than shown — at that size it describes one employer's hiring, not a market rate. Relist counts faster than a real requisition could turn over are excluded entirely; those come from instability in our own crawler, not from employers.

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