RPO Recruitment
Executive Search · Human Resources
Overview
RPO Recruitment is a South African recruitment agency and executive search firm specializing in niche talent acquisition across multiple industries. The company connects leading corporate employers with skilled professionals in fields such as engineering, finance, supply chain, and manufacturing. Headquartered in Cape Town, South Africa, it provides flexible and performance-driven recruitment process outsourcing solutions to streamline hiring and support workforce growth.
How RPO Recruitment hires
Truth index
D 42/100
Ghost roles
96%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%
RPO Recruitment scores D on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 558 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 96% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
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Remote (South Africa) · Johannesburg
Dart
PostgreSQL
Mobile
Flutter
DevOps
Terraform
Git
AWS
Bitbucket
AWS Lambda
GitHub
GitLab
Amazon S3
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In office · 5+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Johannesburg
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In office · Bachelor's Degree · South Africa
JavaScript
C
Node JS
Embedded C
Frontend
React.js
DevOps
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$27k – $40k per year · In office · Bachelor's Degree · Cape Town
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$39k
Typical range
$11k – $78k
Open positions
87
82
Jobs
Junior
19.5%
Middle
19.5%
Senior
35.4%
Staff
20.7%
Principal
1.2%
Architect
3.7%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junior | 16 | $27k | $14k – $60k |
| Middle | 16 | $33k | $18k – $60k |
| Senior | 29 | $40k | $22k – $66k |
| Staff | 17 | $54k | $21k – $78k |
| Principal | 1 | $43k | $43k |
| Architect | 3 | $66k | $25k – $78k |
Highest paying role
Bridge Engineer (Pr Eng) - Consulting Industry - R1.3M - R900K
$78k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at RPO Recruitment
By role, level and city, against the market · 87 jobs with pay
Growth
Hiring Momentum
21/100
Hiring freeze
Open positions
564
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
210 days
faster than 5% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~5 hours
Today
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Industrial Engineering
35% ▲
Legal
26% ▼
Field & Service
16% ▼
Operations
10% ▲
Hardware
3% ▼
Administrative
3% ▼
Actively hiring for Industrial Engineering (+7 in 30 days)
Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at RPO Recruitment over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
1
Postings analysed
14
Stack modernity
64/100
Developer tools
AutoCAD100%
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
This company is a staffing agency: the cities below are where its clients hire, not its own offices.
Cities
38
Hiring now
38
Countries
4
Busiest office
Cape Town
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Headquarters
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Cape Town
South Africa
HQ
202 open roles 14 posted in 90 days 8% engineering $35k Avg Salary
hires for Industrial Engineering, Field & Service, Operations
Johannesburg
South Africa
106 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 7% engineering 2% remote $49k Avg Salary
hires for Industrial Engineering, Finance, Field & Service
Durban
South Africa
51 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 6% engineering $38k Avg Salary
hires for Industrial Engineering, Field & Service, Finance
Pretoria
South Africa
37 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 8% engineering $45k Avg Salary
hires for Industrial Engineering, Field & Service, Hardware
Centurion
South Africa
14 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 7% engineering $51k Avg Salary
hires for Industrial Engineering, Field & Service, Hardware
Pinetown
South Africa
10 open roles $25k Avg Salary
hires for Field & Service, Administrative, Sales
Midrand
South Africa
9 open roles
hires for Operations, Finance, Leadership
Gqeberha
South Africa
9 open roles 11% engineering $33k Avg Salary
hires for Finance, Field & Service, Hardware
Durbanville
South Africa
7 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 14% engineering
hires for Industrial Engineering, Field & Service, Hardware
Sandton
South Africa
6 open roles 17% engineering $45k Avg Salary
hires for Product, Analytics, Finance
Pietermaritzburg
South Africa
5 open roles 20% engineering
hires for Field & Service, Hardware
Paarl
South Africa
5 open roles 1 posted in 90 days $40k Avg Salary
hires for Field & Service, Finance, Operations
Germiston
South Africa
5 open roles 40% engineering $36k Avg Salary
hires for Analytics, Administrative, Field & Service
Stellenbosch
South Africa
5 open roles $40k Avg Salary
hires for Operations, Industrial Engineering, Finance
Bloemfontein
South Africa
4 open roles $39k Avg Salary
hires for Industrial Engineering, Field & Service
Polokwane
South Africa
4 open roles 2 posted in 90 days
hires for Finance, Legal, Operations
Nelspruit
South Africa
4 open roles 25% engineering $28k Avg Salary
hires for Industrial Engineering, Hardware, Sales
Rustenburg
South Africa
4 open roles
hires for Field & Service, Leadership, Sales
Middelburg
South Africa
4 open roles 25% engineering
hires for Leadership, Analytics, Management
Somerset West
South Africa
4 open roles
hires for Sales, Operations, Field & Service
Roodepoort
South Africa
4 open roles
hires for Finance, Management, Field & Service
Vanderbijlpark
South Africa
3 open roles $54k Avg Salary
hires for Industrial Engineering, Finance
George
South Africa
3 open roles
hires for Industrial Engineering, Finance
Richards Bay
South Africa
3 open roles
hires for Finance
Benoni
South Africa
3 open roles
hires for Sales, Management
Newcastle
South Africa
2 open roles 1 posted in 90 days
hires for Legal, Industrial Engineering
Lusaka
Zambia
2 open roles
hires for Management
Tzaneen
South Africa
2 open roles
hires for Finance, Industrial Engineering
Kroonstad
South Africa
2 open roles
hires for Finance, Customer Success
Alberton
South Africa
2 open roles
hires for Administrative, Industrial Engineering
Potchefstroom
South Africa
2 open roles
hires for Operations, Field & Service
Natal
Brazil
1 open roles
hires for Field & Service
Dar es Salaam
Tanzania
1 open roles
hires for Finance
East London
South Africa
1 open roles
hires for Industrial Engineering
Secunda
South Africa
1 open roles
hires for Sales
Krugersdorp
South Africa
1 open roles
hires for Industrial Engineering
Vereeniging
South Africa
1 open roles
hires for Operations
Boksburg
South Africa
1 open roles
hires for Field & Service