84 certifications sorted by field and level, each with the roles it serves and a link to the issuer.
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The first step for business analysts. No prior experience needed; covers BABOK fundamentals: eliciting, analysing and managing requirements.
A well-known European credential in requirements engineering: eliciting, documenting and validating requirements. No experience required; a great fit for junior systems analysts.
Official site ↗For analysts with hands-on project experience (usually two to three years). Shows you can manage requirements on real projects.
Official site ↗For BAs working with Scrum teams: user stories, slicing work and continuous analysis instead of heavy documents.
Official site ↗Improving processes and reducing defects with data using DMAIC. Valued for process improvement, quality and operational excellence roles.
Official site ↗IIBA's senior credential. Requires several years of documented BA work and is valued for lead roles.
An online beginner programme covering planning, scheduling, agile and project tools. A gentle start before CAPM.
PMI's official entry credential, made for students and new graduates. No experience needed, just 23 hours of project management education.
Official site ↗Shows you understand the Scrum framework, roles and events. An online exam with no mandatory course, and it never expires.
Official site ↗For the product owner role: ordering the backlog by value and working with stakeholders. Very close to a business analyst's work.
Official site ↗A project method widely used in government and organisations influenced by UK practice. No experience required.
Covers several agile approaches such as Scrum, Kanban and Lean. Requires agile project experience.
Specialises in project risk: identifying, assessing and responding to it. Requires years of risk management experience.
The world's best-known project management credential. Requires 3–5 years leading projects; its exam changed in July 2026.
A beginner programme covering spreadsheets, SQL, Tableau and R, with a capstone project for your portfolio.
Official site ↗Proves solid Excel skills: formulas, tables and charts. Useful for any business or analytical job.
Official site ↗The advanced level: advanced functions, analysis tools, macros and data cleaning. Stands out for financial and business analysis roles.
The step after Data Analytics: Python, statistics, regression and machine learning. A bridge towards data science.
The most requested data analyst certification in the region. Covers preparing and modelling data and building reports in Power BI.
For analysts using Tableau: connecting and analysing data and building interactive dashboards.
The step after PL-300: building lakehouses, warehouses and semantic models on Microsoft Fabric for a whole organisation.
For data engineering: building pipelines that move, transform and process data on Microsoft Fabric.
Databricks is common in large companies. Covers processing data with SQL and Python on the lakehouse.
Fundamentals of the Snowflake cloud data warehouse: storage, querying, security and cost.
Building, storing and governing data pipelines on AWS. A good fit after some SQL and AWS experience.
Based on DAMA-DMBOK: data governance, data quality and master data. Valued for data governance roles in government bodies.
Relational and non-relational data and analytics concepts on Azure. Fundamentals certifications do not expire.
Proves SQL skills on Oracle Database: queries, joins, functions and managing tables.
Official site ↗Running SQL databases on Azure: performance, security, backup and high availability.
A beginner programme: troubleshooting, networking, operating systems and customer service. A strong start for a service desk job.
The classic support certification: hardware, operating systems, basic networking and security. Two exams.
Official site ↗An easier step before CCNA: addressing, devices and network troubleshooting basics.
Vendor-neutral networking fundamentals: design, operation and troubleshooting.
Official site ↗Networking basics on Juniper equipment, common at telecom providers. An alternative or complement to Cisco.
The best-known networking certification: routing, switching, subnetting, and basic security and automation.
Linux administration: users, permissions, services and scripting. Most servers and cloud workloads run on Linux.
Official site ↗A hands-on exam administering Red Hat Enterprise Linux on a live system. Highly respected by companies and banks.
For experienced engineers: designing and running large enterprise networks.
Official site ↗The first security credential from the issuer of CISSP. No experience needed; covers security principles, incident response and networks.
A beginner programme with Python, Linux, SQL and SIEM tools that prepares you for an entry SOC analyst role.
An introduction to security, identity and compliance concepts in Microsoft services. Approachable for any MIS graduate.
Fortinet's free-to-train credential on threats and basic defences. A gentle first step.
The most popular entry security certification: threats, cryptography, identity and incident response. Many job ads ask for it.
For SOC analysts: log analysis, threat detection, vulnerability management and response.
Official site ↗Detecting and investigating threats with Microsoft Sentinel and Defender. Valued in SOCs built on Microsoft.
Managing identity in Microsoft Entra: accounts, MFA, conditional access and access reviews.
Ethical penetration testing: planning, scanning, exploiting weaknesses and reporting.
Learn how attackers think so you can defend systems. Widely recognised in the region.
The gold-standard credential for security leaders. Requires 5 years' experience in two of its eight domains.
Official site ↗Advanced security for data and applications in the cloud. Requires long IT and security experience.
The IT governance framework from the governance track. An excellent entry to governance and audit roles.
Official site ↗How to build an information security management system from scratch under ISO 27001.
Official site ↗How to audit an information security management system against the standard. Valued for compliance and audit roles.
The best-known data privacy credential. It doesn't cover Saudi Arabia's PDPL specifically, but the principles are the same.
Official site ↗The leading IT audit credential. You can sit the exam early, but certification needs 5 years' experience (with some waivers for degrees).
Official site ↗For managing security programmes, governance and risk from a management view.
Official site ↗Specialises in IT risk management and designing controls.
Official site ↗The global internal audit credential, highly valued in Saudi Arabia. Together with CISA it opens audit leadership roles.
An online exam on Odoo apps: sales, inventory, accounting and purchasing. A practical way into ERP.
The first Salesforce credential, for the world's best-known CRM. Training is free on Trailhead.
Running Salesforce: users, permissions, fields, automation and reports. A common role for MIS graduates.
One of SAP's most requested: configuring financial accounting in S/4HANA. Similar certifications exist for procurement, inventory and more.
Official site ↗SAP's system for small and mid-sized firms, common among implementation partners in the region. More approachable than S/4HANA.
For Oracle ERP consultants: configuring General Ledger in Fusion Cloud. Similar certifications cover payables and receivables.
Cloud concepts, Azure services and pricing. Fundamentals certifications do not expire.
An introduction to AWS services, pricing and security. Suitable for non-developers too.
A non-technical certification on the business value of cloud, digital transformation and Google Cloud services. Suits MIS students and business roles.
Official site ↗Managing cloud cost: tagging, budgets, commitments and finance–tech collaboration. A natural fit for MIS.
Running an Azure environment: identity, networking, storage, virtual machines and monitoring.
The most requested cloud certification: designing secure, resilient, cost-effective systems on AWS.
Official site ↗Deploying and monitoring applications and managing projects and access on Google Cloud.
Designing complete Azure solutions for organisations. Requires AZ-104 first.
The IT service management framework: incidents, change and service levels. The ITIL (Version 5) Foundation exam is available in 2026, and ITIL 4 remains recognised alongside it.
ServiceNow is widely used by banks and large organisations to run service requests and IT services. This opens doors to platform admin and developer roles.
Official site ↗AI, machine learning and generative AI concepts and their Azure services. Exam AI-901 replaced AI-900 in 2026, and Fundamentals certifications do not expire.
An introduction to AI and generative AI on AWS: use cases, choosing models and responsible use. No programming background required.
A non-technical certification on how organisations use generative AI and weigh its opportunities and risks. A close fit for MIS graduates.
Building, training, deploying and monitoring ML models on AWS. Needs Python and ML fundamentals.
Proves Python basics: variables, loops, functions and lists. The site's Python track covers it.
Official site ↗The best-known software testing and QA credential. No experience needed; a great entry to QA analyst roles.
Building business solutions with little code: Power Apps, Power Automate flows and Power BI reports.
Official site ↗Robotic process automation (RPA): bots that do repetitive tasks such as keying invoices. Training is free in UiPath Academy.
The next level: object-oriented programming, modules, exceptions and string handling.
Oracle's official Java credential. Valued for enterprise and banking developers.