Career guides: which certifications do job ads actually name?

Job-ad data: October 2026 · Editor: · Updated

Mostly exam certifications tied to one job, almost never an online-course certificate: the PMP appears in 24% of the ads for US project managers and CompTIA A+ in 20% of the ads for IT-support jobs, while the Google Project Management Certificate appears in 19 of the 59,273 ads.

Which certificates do employers name for your job?

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Certificates named

  1. PMP24%
  2. CAPM1.7%
  3. ITIL1.2%
  4. PMI-ACP1.1%
  5. Six Sigma Green Belt0.6% (364 ads)

Skills asked for

  1. Agile12%
  2. Jira5.2%

Source: Adzuna job ads, October 2026.

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