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15 highest-paying certifications for 2022 We may be compensated by vendors who appear on this page through methods such as affiliate links or sponsored partnerships.

The focus on cybersecurity and cloud certifications confirms the trend seen in the 2021 report in which the same two areas commanded the top salaries.

The 2022 list also provides details on the typical professional who holds each certification, including their average total number of certifications, whether they hold cybersecurity-related certifications, whether they're in management and their average age.

To be certified, you should have a certain level of expertise in information security governance, information security risk management, information security program and incident management.

Further, you should be familiar with AWS security services, logging and monitoring strategies, cloud security threat models, and security operations and risks.

Rounding up the top 15 are CISA-Certified Information Systems Auditor with a salary of $142,336, AWS Certified Big Data-Specialty with an annual pay of $138,403, VMware Certified Professional-Data Center Virtualization with a salary of $138,349, AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner with an annual rate of $135,612, and CCNP Enterprise with a salary of $133,568.

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