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In the United States, employers name PMP in 24% of project manager job ads. The most-named course certificate, Google Data Analytics, appears in 7 of 6,094 data analyst job ads. The same ads ask for SQL in 42%.

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Certification, course certificate or skill: what job ads in the United States name
In 10 of 10 jobs in the United States, the top skill is named in more ads than the course certificate.
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Certification, course certificate or skill: what job ads in the United States name. Share of job ads that name each item. Source: Adzuna job ads, October 2026.
JobIndustry certificationCourse certificateSkill
Project managerPMP 24%Google Project Management 19 of 59,273Agile 12%
Cybersecurity analystCISSP 4.2%Google Cybersecurity 0 of 8,110SIEM 5.1%
Data analystTableau certification 7 of 6,094Google Data Analytics 7 of 6,094SQL 42%
IT supportCompTIA A+ 20%Google IT Support 3 of 2,745Windows 43%
System administratorITIL 7.8%Google IT Automation with Python 0 of 6,233Linux 44%
SOC analystCompTIA CySA+ 15%Google Cybersecurity 0 of 233SIEM 58%
Business analystSix Sigma 23 of 13,543Google Business Intelligence 0 of 13,543SQL 13%
Data engineerDatabricks certification 173 of 21,791Meta Database Engineer 0 of 21,791SQL 28%
Data scientistAWS Machine Learning 64 of 8,250IBM Data Science 1 of 8,250Python 72%
AI engineerAWS AI Practitioner 103 of 23,274DeepLearning.AI 1 of 23,274Python 20%
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