Data Specialist
Skills Certificate
Program Details
This skills certificate provides students with the specific knowledge and skills needed for an entry-level data analyst position or to expand their current job skills to include basic data analytics. Today's business decisions are data driven and the skills developed in this sequence of classes will allow you to help businesses understand their data better. A skills certificate is designed to provide career technical skills; it is not equivalent to an associate degree.
Data Specialist Pathways
Pathways listed below are for the catalog year 2025-2026.
Featured Careers
Find your calling. Explore high-earning careers with entry-level data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
- Job growth: Rising
- Low salary: 52,650
- High salary: 176,800
- Average salary: 108970
Career/Technical Education Teachers, Postsecondary
Associate's degree, Bachelor's degree
- Job growth: Declining
- Low salary: 38,680
- High salary: 106,580
- Average salary: 61490
- Job growth:
- Low salary: 52,650
- High salary: 176,800
- Average salary: 108970
All Careers in Data Specialist (17)
| Blockchain Engineers | - n/a | Rising | 108,970 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Computer Occupations, All Other | - n/a | - n/a | 108,970 |
| Computer Systems Engineers/Architects | Certificate after high school, Associate's degree | Rising | 108,970 |
| Digital Forensics Analysts | - n/a | Rising | 108,970 |
| Document Management Specialists | Bachelor's degree, Master's degree | Rising | 108,970 |
| Geographic Information Systems Technologists and Technicians | - n/a | Rising | 108,970 |
| Information Security Engineers | - n/a | Rising | 108,970 |
| Information Technology Project Managers | Bachelor's degree, Associate's degree | Rising | 108,970 |
| Penetration Testers | - n/a | Rising | 108,970 |
| Web Administrators | Bachelor's degree, Some college | Rising | 108,970 |
| Special Effects Artists and Animators | Bachelor's degree, Some college | Stable | 99,800 |
| Video Game Designers | Bachelor's degree, High school diploma/GED | Rising | 98,090 |
| Web and Digital Interface Designers | - n/a | Rising | 98,090 |
| Web Developers | Bachelor's degree, Certificate after high school | Rising | 90,930 |
| Career/Technical Education Teachers, Postsecondary | Associate's degree, Bachelor's degree | Declining | 61,490 |
| Graphic Designers | Bachelor's degree, High school diploma/GED | Stable | 61,300 |
| Data Entry Keyers | High school diploma/GED, Some college | Declining | 39,850 |
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