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SC-900 Security Fundamentals

Microsoft
RANK #93 / 100 STABLE DEMAND 88 2026-Q3 DATA
$348,666
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Now see where you stand

Your benchmark against real contributors — the median beside top-of-band, plus stacking uplift and vintage decay.

What the verdict means

STABLEHolding its value — steady this quarter
DEMAND 88Relative hiring demand for SC-900 Security Fundamentals this quarter — join free to see it.

The analyst note

The read

Microsoft's security-literacy credential. It's the fundamentals tier feeding the Microsoft security track, buoyed by the same E5-driven consolidation that's lifting the associate security certs.

Who holds it

IT staff, compliance-adjacent professionals and career entrants picking up the Microsoft-security vocabulary: identity, threat protection, compliance concepts.

The case for the verdict

It runs on fundamentals-tier economics: strong pipeline value, no standalone premium. Hold it briefly and move on promptly, because the value accrues at the associate security certs and the new SC-500 generation.

The risk

As with every fundamentals cert, scale is the ceiling. Microsoft wants millions of holders, and millions of holders means no scarcity premium. That's the design, not a flaw.

The benchmark check

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Where it sits

Bottom half of the CertBueno Top 100.

This certification pays 42% below the rest of the Top 100.

Vendor

One of 12 Microsoft certifications in the Top 100 — ranked 12th among them.

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