Certification can make a difference in your career. Global Knowledge published the 15 most wanted IT certifications. Hopefully, this list will help you find ways to improve your career.
Potential Annual Salary: $131,298
Intended for: IT professionals with experience with IT and enterprise risk management.
Requirements: You need at least three years of work experience in at least two of these areas: 1. Risk Identification, 2. Risk Assessment, 3. Risk Recognition and Mitigation, and 4. Risk and Control Monitoring and Reporting.
Potential Annual Salary: $128,156
Intended for: IT professionals managing, developing and overseeing information security.
Requirements: You need five years experience in information security (IS).
Potential Annual Salary: $125,091
Intended for: IT professionals with experience designing distributed systems on AWS cloud platform.
Requirements: Amazon recommends six months or more of hands-on AWS experience.
Potential Annual Salary: $121,729
Intended for: IT professionals in cybersecurity.
Requirements: You need five years experience in information security.
Potential Annual Salary: $119,349
Intended for: IT professionals involved in project management.
Requirements: You will need 7,500 hours of project management experience without a bachelor’s degree or 4,500 hours of project management experience with a bachelor’s degree or higher. You will also need 35 hours of PMP related training from certified authorities.
Potential Annual Salary: $115,471
Intended for: IT professionals who audit and manage information and business systems.
Requirements: You will need five years of experience in information system auditing, control or security to take the exam.
Potential Annual Salary: $105,086
Intended for: IT professionals involved in XenDesktop 7 solutions.
Requirements: You need to have Citrix Certified Associate – Virtualization (CCA-V) certification.
Potential Annual Salary: $103,408
Intended for: IT professionals in IT service management.
Requirements: There are no prerequisites to taking the exam.
Potential Annual Salary: $102,962
Intended for: IT professionals involved in virtualization and VMWare technology.
Requirements: You have to either take coursework or pass lower level certification programs.
Potential Annual Salary: $102,598
Intended for: IT professionals dealing with Citrix’s NetScaler Gateway for desktops, applications, and data access points.
Requirements: No prerequisites.
Potential Annual Salary: $101,150
Intended for: IT professionals running data centers with cloud technologies.
Requirements: You will have to pass the Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate (MCSA) exam related to on-premise or cloud certifications to qualify for this exam.
Potential Annual Salary: $99,558
Intended for: IT professionals involved with Windows Server 2008 and Active Directory.
Requirements: You will need hands-on knowledge or you can get the MTA certification.
Potential Annual Salary: $99,411
Intended for: IT professionals involved in XenDesktop 7 solutions.
Requirements: No prerequisites.
Potential Annual Salary: $96,826
Intended for: IT professionals involved in routing and switching of Local Area Network (LAN) and Wide Area Network (WAN).
Requirements: You need to have the associate level CCNA Routing and Switching certification to sit for this exam.
Potential Annual Salary: $93,718
Intended for: IT professionals involved with Windows Server 2012.
Requirements: You will need hands-on knowledge or you can get the MTA certification.