The highly skilled market reflects skills shortages, with employer competition fairly intense and unemployment low. This, in turn, generates strong salary increases, unhealthily feeding inequality and inflation. More jobs need to be created in this market, not just to reduce inequality and moderate inflation, but also to create more jobs for less-skilled workers.
What this segment of the labour market needs, in the longer run, is more and better education to open the highly skilled job market to more South Africans and better match what students study with the skills required by the private sector.