[entuno]

Qualifications are an interesting one, because they seem to be something that gets very little regard the development space.

Other areas like IT security or systems/network administration have tons of different qualifications/certifications that you can take, aligned to specific roles and career paths. Whether they're actually any good is another question - but at least there is some kind of structure there. And there are some attempts being made to further formalise it, with bodies like the UK Cyber Security Council establishing a professional register and chartership status.

But I don't think I've never met a developer who's talked about any programming-related certifications that they have. I'm sure that there must be some out there, but they don't seem to be widely used or respected.

And I suspect that any attempt to formalise the industry and require people to get certified to specific standards would result in a lot of pushback.

[aaronbaugher]

The ones I'm familiar with are mainly administered by corporate platforms like Salesforce, and appear to be mainly a revenue stream for them.