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No security certification is demanded more often in hiring: on around 41% of the postings that mention it, it is listed as a hard requirement — the highest rate found anywhere in this research. Its status as a US DoD 8140 baseline underwrites permanent demand.
Early-career security staff, government contractors and IT generalists broadening into security. Security+ is the gate most people walk through on the way into the profession.
It is a gateway credential with a compliance moat: no premium growth, but no obsolescence risk on any horizon you can see either. Hold it for what it is, an entry asset, and treat CySA+ or a cloud security cert as the next rung.
Gateway certs inflate as more people pass through them. The moat protects demand for the certificate, not the pay of the person holding it. Anyone parked at Security+ for years is quietly falling behind a rising baseline.
How CompTIA Security+'s market value changes with years since it was earned.
Bottom half of the CertBueno Top 100.
This certification pays 37% below the rest of the Top 100.
One of 4 CompTIA certifications in the Top 100 — ranked 2nd among them.
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