There were 37034 jobs posted between 2016-09-07 and 2019-06-14 on jobmag Kenya. According to the chart below, 2019 has witnessed decrease in jobs posted.
Unsurprisingly, most of the top posters were recruitment agencies. Here are the recruitment and non-recruitment firms with highest number of posts:
In terms of number of jobs posted, Safaricom led the pack of non-recruitment organizations followed by Public Service Commission and Save the Children.A quick look at Safaricom posts shows that ICT/Engineering, Sales & Marketing, Administration, Finance/Accounting and Customer Care formed the bulk of its job posts.
When the job posts are classified according to the industry of the poster/employer, NGOs and the Government emerge as the top posters. Recruitment firms contribute to the Consulting Industry high rank.
The NGOs that posted a significant number of jobs include:
2718 jobs were posted by the Central Government and parastatals while 1610 jobs were posted by county governments.
The top 10 job fields are:
I was curious about data related jobs. I used the following keywords to filter job titles related data functions: data, machine learning, deep learning, artificial intelligence and statistic. Data analyst was the most common job title in this category and NGOs posted the highest number of data-related jobs.
The data and code is here.
Tools used:
- python to scrape data
- r to clean, analyse and visualize data
- OpenRefine to clean data
Data source: jobmag Kenya