Feb/26: Analysis - total professionals by cert

Analysis of the Google Cloud Platform certification program.

How many GCP certified professionals are there, by cert, on 28/Feb/26?

Total number of GCP certificates

Total: 650825 (16613 2.62%)

Per certification

  • Foundational:
    • Cloud Digital Leader: 117618 (1594 1.37%)
    • Generative AI Leader: 55247 (6300 12.87%)
  • Associate:
    • Cloud Engineer: 192939 (2642 1.39%)
    • Data Practitioner: 7495 (441 6.25%)
    • Google Workspace Administrator: 4317 (302 7.52%)
  • Professional:
    • Cloud Architect: 121719 (2069 1.73%)
    • Data Engineer: 60897 (993 1.66%)
    • Cloud Developer: 15609 (279 1.82%)
    • Network Engineer: 10433 (145 1.41%)
    • Security Engineer: 17093 (306 1.82%)
    • DevOps Engineer: 17812 (425 2.44%)
    • Machine Learning Engineer: 18869 (774 4.28%)
    • Cloud Database Engineer: 8864 (158 1.81%)
    • Security Operations Engineer: 1913 (185 10.71%)

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Analysis

  1. Numbers continue last months trends consistently, each cert with the same growth relative to the rest.
  2. Except the PSOE, as it’s the last cert to come and thus its growth has been stabilizing: 125%-22%-10%.
  3. Total MoM growth stabilizes at around 16k new certs every month, after 21K peak on December, as many programs have an end date on new year.
  4. PMLE continues to have notable growth among professional certs, not so far from PDE
  5. ACE and PCA certs see higher growth at the beginning of the year, rather than at the end, while being some of the most common certs
    1. Maybe because specialized certs are more sought after at the end of the year for specialization programs
  6. GAIL continues to outperform CDL in new certs by large, around 5x growth and 13% MoM vs 1%, being around 50% CDL total certs
  7. While knowledge about networking is usually a prerequisite for security roles, PCSE growth is 2x PCNE, which is the least growing cert
    1. Seems to highligh the higher demand for security roles than networking
  8. New (~1.5 year old) ADP and AGWA certs didn’t seem to be such a hit at firts, but percentage growth at 6-8% is quite consistent