1430 job postings
Validates knowledge of administering Azure identities, governance, storage, compute and networking, and monitoring cloud infrastructure.
165IntermediateNo prerequisites
Most In-Demand Microsoft Certifications in 2026
8 Microsoft certifications ranked by how many US job postings ask for them.
2371 job postings
Validates knowledge of designing Azure solutions for identity, governance, monitoring, data, business continuity and infrastructure.
330AdvancedHas prerequisites
3163 job postings
Validates foundational knowledge of cloud concepts, Azure architecture and services, and Azure management and governance.
99EntryNo prerequisites
4138 job postings
Validates knowledge of administering Microsoft 365 tenants, including users, identity, security and compliance.
330AdvancedHas prerequisites
5105 job postings
Validates skills in preparing, modeling and visualizing data with Power BI, and managing and securing reports and models.
165IntermediateNo prerequisites
658 job postings
Validates foundational knowledge of AI concepts, responsible AI and building generative AI, vision and speech solutions.
99EntryNo prerequisites
720 job postings
Validates skills in building Microsoft Fabric pipelines, including ingestion and transformation with PySpark, SQL and KQL, and monitoring.
165IntermediateNo prerequisites
84 job postings
Validates knowledge of building Azure AI solutions, including generative AI, agents, computer vision, text analysis and information extraction.
165IntermediateNo prerequisites
Count of job postings in US postings that mention each certification, Sep 2025–Aug 2026. Source