Overview
CertWorthIt is a job-ad data site that answers a question most certification guides avoid: do employers actually ask for a given credential? It counts listings from the Adzuna API, runs them through AI analysis, and reports how often each certificate appears in real postings. The audience is career switchers, IT newcomers and anyone weighing whether to spend money and months on PMP, CCNA, CompTIA or a Google course certificate.
Key Features
- Real job-ad counts instead of surveys. Every figure links back to its source. The site counted 362,748 job ads across 10 countries in October 2026, pulled from the Adzuna API and used with permission.
- 78 certifications with data. Coverage runs from heavyweights like PMP (named in 24% of US project manager ads) and CompTIA A+ (20% of IT support ads) down to smaller entries such as AI-901, eJPT and SnowPro Core.
- Field and role browsing. Seven fields cover Cloud and DevOps, Cybersecurity, Data and analytics, IT support and networking, Project management, AI, and Agile and Scrum, with separate pages for project manager, data engineer, network engineer, cloud engineer and other roles.
- Course certificate versus industry certification. A chart on the home page contrasts what employers name: Google Data Analytics appears in 7 of 6,094 US data analyst ads while SQL shows up in 42%. That gap is the site's central argument.
- Comparisons and country rankings. Popular head-to-heads include CAPM vs PMP (1.7% vs 24%), CCNA vs CCNP (16% vs 20%) and CISSP vs OSCP (4.2% vs 73%). Rankings list the most-named certificate per country, from OSCP in the United States to PMP in India.
- Quiz and emailed report. A four-question quiz starts from a job, country, experience level and goal, then builds a country report that can be sent by email, with an optional monthly newsletter on which certifications gained or lost ground.
Use Cases
Someone moving into cybersecurity can check whether CISSP, CompTIA Security+ or the Google Cybersecurity certificate turns up in the ads for roles they want, and find that OSCP is named in 73% of the relevant US listings while the Google course appears in none of them. A project manager in India or the UK can pull a country report instead of relying on US-centric advice. The point is that the decision stops being about course-vendor copy and starts being about what hiring managers type into a posting.
