Wednesday, February 12, 2020

15 Top-Paying IT Certifications for 2020

Here's an interesting article from Global Knowledge. Notice that the top certifications are focused on cloud, security, and risk. Importantly, both here and from some of the pundits discussing this, you'll see that in many cases multiple certifications matter, demonstrating a broad level of knowledge, and the average level of experience may be more than you think.

Take a look at the details here:
https://www.globalknowledge.com/us-en/resources/resource-library/articles/top-paying-certifications/.

Top-paying certifications:

  1. Google Certified Professional Cloud Architect — $175,761
  2. AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate — $149,446
  3. CISM – Certified Information Security Manager — $148,622
  4. CRISC – Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control — $146,480
  5. PMP® – Project Management Professional — $143,493
  6. CISSP – Certified Information Systems Security Professional — $141,452
  7. CISA – Certified Information Systems Auditor — $132,278
  8. AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner — $131,465
  9. VCP6-DCV: VMware Certified Professional 6 – Data Center Virtualization — $130,226
  10. ITIL® Foundation — $129,402
  11. Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals — $126,653
  12. Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate — $125,993
  13. CCA-N: Citrix Certified Associate – Networking — $125,264
  14. CCNP Routing and Switching — $119,178
  15. CCP-V: Citrix Certified Professional – Virtualization — $117,069