Information technology has consistently maintained its position as one of the highest compensating professional sectors in the global economy, and the structural reasons behind this reality show no meaningful signs of reversing in the years ahead. Organizations across every industry depend on technology infrastructure, software systems, and digital capabilities to operate, compete, and serve their customers, creating persistent demand for skilled professionals whose expertise is genuinely difficult to develop and therefore commands significant market premiums. The compensation advantage that IT professionals enjoy relative to many other professional fields reflects the…

The information technology certification market entered 2018 in a period of remarkable dynamism, shaped by converging forces including accelerating cloud adoption, expanding cybersecurity threat landscapes, the maturation of big data and analytics platforms, and the emergence of artificial intelligence and machine learning as mainstream enterprise technology concerns. Organizations worldwide were investing at unprecedented levels in digital transformation initiatives that required specialized technical talent across a wider range of disciplines than at any previous point in the industry’s history, and the certification market responded by expanding both the breadth of credentials…