Salary & demand intel
What does each certification actually pay?
Live market signals across role, country, experience, and industry — updated weekly from job-board telemetry and salary surveys.
Certification
Avg salary
Demand
Openings
Certified Information Systems Security Professional
ISC2
$178,000
92
21,300
Google Professional Cloud Architect
Google Cloud
$169,000
84
14,220
Azure AI Engineer Associate
Microsoft
$168,000
95
18,900
Certified Kubernetes Administrator
CNCF / Linux Foundation
$158,000
88
19,400
Databricks Data Engineer Associate
Databricks
$156,000
81
7,400
SnowPro Core
Snowflake
$152,000
83
8,900
AWS Solutions Architect — Associate
Amazon Web Services
$148,000
96
42,180
HashiCorp Terraform Associate
HashiCorp
$138,000
79
11,500
Microsoft Azure Administrator
Microsoft
$132,000
91
28,940
AWS AI Practitioner
Amazon Web Services
$124,000
87
12,200
CompTIA Security+
CompTIA
$102,000
86
26,100
Salesforce Certified Administrator
Salesforce
$96,000
82
17,300