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PMI-ACP – Agile Certified Practitioner

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RANK #82 / 100 DIVERSIFY DEMAND 88 2026-Q3 DATA
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Your benchmark against real contributors — the median beside top-of-band, plus stacking uplift and vintage decay.

What the verdict means

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The analyst note

The read

PMI's agile credential is caught in the middle — PMP's brand dominates on one side, a glut of scrum credentials crowds the other, and the agile-roles market is shrinking around all of them.

Who holds it

Agile project managers and hybrid-delivery leads at organizations that blend predictive and agile governance. In practice it is often the same people who already hold PMP.

The case for the verdict

Next to a PMP it adds little, and next to real experience it adds nothing — while the premium on agile credentials as a class keeps deflating. Within PMI's line-up, PMP is the asset that holds its value.

The risk

The risk is category deflation. Employers are settling on a single project credential per CV, and PMI-ACP is rarely the one they pick.

The benchmark check

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Where it sits

Bottom half of the CertBueno Top 100.

This certification pays 26% below the rest of the Top 100.

Vendor

One of 3 PMI certifications in the Top 100 — ranked 3rd among them.

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