8 Top-Paying IT Certifications In 2014

BANGALORE: Getting certified is a reliable way to advance your career in the IT industry. Whether you work for an enterprise, government, or any other organization that employs IT professionals, your best chance for career advancement is to validate your skills and knowledge through a valued certification. But certifications can get expensive, that's why knowing what is hot with employers is important when considering your professional development.
Here is a list of 2014's hottest IT certifications that will benefit you the most, as reported by Rich Hein of CIO.
Open Group
The Open Group is a vendor and technology-neutral industry consortium, currently with over four hundred member organizations. Formed in 1996, The Open Group is most famous for its certification in the UNIX trademark, and its publication of the Single UNIX Specification technical standard, which extends the POSIX standards.
With the market responding to anything that has to do with architecture these certification are in demand and employers are willing to pay a premium for them. In fact all three of these IT certifications made it into Foote Partner's highest paying IT certifications. Additionally, the Open Group’s TOGAF standard, which is an industry standard enterprise architecture framework, has increased by 25 percent in the last 6 months.
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