Mar/26: Analysis - total professionals by cert

Analysis of the Google Cloud Platform certification program.

How many GCP certified professionals are there, by cert, on 31/Mar/26?

Total number of GCP certificates

Certification Total MoM %MoM
Total 661857 11032 1.70%
Foundational      
Cloud Digital Leader 118914 1296 1.10%
Generative AI Leader 60716 5469 9.90%
Associate      
Cloud Engineer 194208 1269 0.66%
Data Practitioner 7805 310 4.14%
Google Workspace Administrator 4536 219 5.07%
Professional      
Cloud Architect 122468 749 0.62%
Data Engineer 61375 478 0.78%
Cloud Developer 15807 198 1.27%
Network Engineer 10521 88 0.84%
Security Engineer 17234 141 0.82%
DevOps Engineer 17992 180 1.01%
Machine Learning Engineer 19254 385 2.04%
Cloud Database Engineer 8966 102 1.15%
Security Operations Engineer 2061 148 7.74%

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Analysis

  1. Numbers continue last months trends consistently, as in last month, each cert with the same relative growth.
  2. The PSOE cert, the last one, continues to stabilize its growth: 125%-22%-10%-8%.
  3. Total MoM growth declines from around 16k every month to 11k, after December’s 21K peak, signaling end-of-year programs and new-year calm season have more people getting new certs.
  4. PMLE continues to have notable growth, closer than before to PDE numbers.
  5. PCA saw little growth last month, even less than before - reason not clear for now.
  6. GAIL continues growing at high numbers, both absolute and percentage MoM, and represents close to 50% of new certs - huge success.
  7. PCD, PCNE, and PCSE certs growth shink, as expected when total certs shrink.
  8. PCDOE shrank more than the previous certs, showing a different trend, from 50% more than PCD to around the same growth, 50% less growth than last month.
  9. While ADP and AGWA growth is also reduced from last months, they still see higher percentage MoM than other certs, 4% and 5%.