Top Recruitment & Staffing Websites in South Africa

Key Insights on Top Recruitment & Staffing Websites in South Africa on January 2026

As of January 2026, pnet.co.za leads Recruitment & Staffing in South Africa with 3.14M monthly visits. Its audience skews mobile-first (31.79% desktop / 31.79% mobile), and traffic is up month over month 61.93% and up year over year 16.71%. mcidirecthire.com holds second with 1.25M visits and a mobile-leaning mix (30.24% desktop / 69.76% mobile), while adzuna.co.za ranks third with 601.76K visits.

Across the leaders, aldirecruitment.ie is the most mobile-first (100% of visits), whereas ceipal.com is the most desktop-reliant (100%). Momentum favors jobs.ie in the latest month (74,848.94%), while helloyouth.co.za shows the steepest pullback. On a yearly view, techfynder.com posts the strongest expansion (23,762.03%), contrasted with ceipal.com (-83.21%).

Acquisition patterns also differ: pnet.co.za is driven primarily by search, pnet.co.za by direct, and pnet.co.za by referral; overall, 84 of the top 100 sites are direct-led, 9 are search-led, and 7 lean on social.

These insights come from the Traffic & Market Toolkit, enriched with extensive clickstream data.

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