Single-Serving Certifications: Once More Unto the Further Morsels of Discrete Data from the CertMag Salary Survey

There were more than 900 certifications included in the most recent Salary Survey conducted by our friends at Certification Magazine. And more than 4,000 individuals from 99 different countries participated in the survey. Put all of those numbers together and you get an impressively large amount of data.

Lots of that data gets reported, both in Certification Magazine itself and online at CertMag.com. Even with somewhere around 75 additional Salary Survey articles appearing at the website in the course of each year, however, there's still a mountain of data that doesn't really get used for anything at all.

That's why today we have a fat serving of Salary Survey leftovers for you. These are odds and ends that ordinarily would get swept into the digital dustbin and be winked out of existence by the DELETE key. Sometimes it's interesting, of course, to look around at the (data) dump and see what ended up there.

Today we have a dozen rejects, 12 certifications each held by exactly one — and only one — individual who responded to the survey. We've also tossed in a few facts about the one survey respondent who holds each of these lonely credentials.

We hope you enjoy these oddments. As happened last year, we will present a series of these samplers throughout spring, summer, and early fall.

NOTE: This is our eleventh time serving up some 2021 Salary Survey leftovers. If you missed the tenth batch, click here to have a taste.

1) Juniper Networks Certified Design Associate (JNCDA) — This one is held by a man who lives in Brazil. He is between the ages of 35 and 44 and has an annual salary of between $120,000 and $124,999, or between R$672,384 and R$700,394. The highest level of formal education he has completed is a master's degree.

2) mile2 Certified Professional Ethical Hacker — This one is held by a man who lives in Canada. He is between the ages of 45 and 54 and has an annual salary of between $72,500 and $74,999, or between C$90,295 and C$93,407. The highest level of formal education he has completed is a bachelor's degree.

3) Red Hat Certified Storage Specialist in Gluster Storage Administration — This one is held by a man who lives in Arizona (in the United States). He is between the ages of 35 and 44 and has an annual salary of between $140,000 and $144,999. The highest level of formal education he has completed is a bachelor's degree.

4) SUSE Certified Engineer – Systems Management — This one is held by a man who lives in Saudi Arabia. He is between the ages of 35 and 44 and has an annual salary of less than $20,000, or less than ?.75,008. The highest level of formal education he has completed is a bachelor's degree.

5) Talend Data Integration v7 Certified Developer — This one is held by a man who lives in Canada. He is between the ages of 35 and 44 and has an annual salary of between $120,000 and $124,999, or between C$149,457 and C$155,683. The highest level of formal education he has completed is a master's degree.

6) Teradata Database Certified Associate — This one is held by a man who lives in India. He is between the ages of 35 and 44 and has an annual salary of between $20,000 and $22,499, or between ?1,489,567 and ?1,675,688. The highest level of formal education he has completed is a bachelor's degree.

7) Veeam Certified Engineer — This one is held by a man who lives in Florida (in the United States). He is between the ages of 45 and 54 and has an annual salary of between $165,000 and $169,999. The highest level of formal education he has completed is a master's degree.

8) VMware Certified Advanced Professional - Cloud Management and Automation Design 2020 — This one is held by a man who lives in Colorado (in the United States). He is between the ages of 45 and 54 and has an annual salary of between $140,000 and $144,999. The highest level of formal education he has completed is a master's degree.

9) VMware Certified Advanced Professional - Network Virtualization Deployment 2020 — This one is held by a woman who lives in California (in the United States). She is between the ages of 45 and 54 and has an annual salary of between $45,000 and $47,499. The highest level of formal education she has completed is a bachelor's degree.

10) VMware Certified Design Expert - Data Center Virtualization 2020 — This one is held by a man who lives in Nebraska (in the United States). He is between the ages of 45 and 54 and has an annual salary of between $100,000 to $104,999. The highest level of formal education he has completed is a bachelor's degree.

11) Wireshark Certified Network Analyst — This one is held by a man who lives in Arizona (in the United States). He is between the ages of 35 and 44 and has an annual salary of between $180,000 and $184,999. The highest level of formal education he has completed is a master's degree.

12) XML Master Professional Database Administrator — This one is held by a man who lives in Canada. He is between the ages of 55 and 64 and has an annual salary of between $82,500 and $84,999, or between C$102,751 and C$105,864. The highest level of formal education he has completed is a master's degree.