Software developers research, analyze and evaluate requirements for existing or new software applications and operating systems, and design, develop, test and maintain software solutions to meet these requirements.
Skill level:
Highly skilled
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- Salary range for the majority of workers in Software developers - from R24 050 to R78 949 per month - 2025.
- A Software developers typically earns between R24 050 and R47 383 net per month at the start of the job.
- After 5 years of service, this is between R35 059 and R67 130 per month for a working week of 45 hours.
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- A Information Systems Specialist in human health and social work activities in scale 8 with 5 years or more experience earned minimum R17 000,00 and maximum R74 310,00 per month in 2019.
Duties and tasks
- Researching, analyzing and evaluating requirements for software applications and operating systems
- Researching, designing, and developing computer software systems
- Consulting with engineering staff to evaluate interfaces between hardware and software
- Developing and directing software testing and validation procedures
- Modifying existing software to correct errors, to adapt it to new hardware or to upgrade interfaces and improve performance
- Directing software programming and development of documentation
- Assessing, developing, upgrading and documenting maintenance procedures for operating systems, communications environments and applications software
- Consulting with customers concerning maintenance of software systems
