While surveys of top-paying IT certifications are good barometers for employment trends, they're not always dependable proof for better compensation and should be treated with caution. Here's how you canmake sense of the 2014 Top-Paying Certs survey and use it to your advantage
I subscribe to the Global Knowledge newsletter and was pleased to see an article of great interest from an old friend and former co-author, John Hales. Entitled 15 Top-Paying Certifications for 2014 it reports on Global Knowledge's own 2014 Skills and Salary Survey, conducted with partner and publishing firm Penton, completed in October 2013. The fine print surrounding the results states that the rankings are "derived from certifications that received the minimum number of responses to be statistically relevant. Certain certifications pay more but are not represented due to their exclusive nature. Examples include Cisco Certified Internetworking Expert (CCIE) and VMware Certified Design Expert (VCDX)."
The 2014 top 15 list that results from the survey includes:
- Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC): $118,253
- Certified Information Security Manager (CISM): $114,844
- Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA): $112,040
- Six Sigma Green Belt: $109,165
- Project Management Professional (PMP): $108,525
- Certified Scrum Master: $107,396
- Citrix Certified Enterprise Engineer (CCEE): $104,240
- Citrix Certified Administrator for NetScaler (CCA): $103,904
- Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH): $103,822
- ITL v3 Foundation: $97,682
- Citrix Certified Administrator for XenServer (CCA): $97,578
- ITIL Expert Certification: $96,194
- Cisco Certified Design Associate (CCDA): $95,602
- Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MSCE, old-style): $95,276
- Citrix Certified Administrator for XenDesktop (CCA): $95,094
In addition to the CCIE and VCDX, certifications that registered salaries over $90K that didn't meet the size requirements for statistical significance also include:
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