Posted 9 years 7 months 3 weeks ago.

As Acquia Drupal Certification turned 1 recently, I was trying to make sense of how many people have taken the certification exam, especially from India.

The certification team had recently launched the Acquia Certification Registry portal @ http://training.acquia.com/registry where you can search through and browse the list of candidates that have cleared the certification exam(s).

I built a small script that scraped the results, crawling through all 20 pages currently available on the registry portal, into a spreadsheet as well as a MySQL database, that I could run queries later to mine for the data I was looking for.

Finally, after a few minutes, I had a local consolidated database of the data publicly available from the certification registry, which I could run queries against, to find the answers I was looking for.

FInally, I have the numbers that I was interested in...

Total Number of Certifications = 777

(As on the registry on Sat April 11 9am IST)

Number of People Certified = 685

Unites States tops the chart with

307 certifications of

259 certified candidates, followed by

India with 86 candidates!

Number of Certifications - Top 6 Countries

United States

307

India

86

Canada

58

Australia

48

United Kingdom

44

Belgium

35

Number of Certified Developers - Top 6 Countries

United States

259

India

76

Canada

53

Australia

45

United Kingdom

34

Belgium

32

Acquia Certified Developers are spread over 40+ Countries!

On this context, I had a quick chat with Peter Minijak from the Acquia Certification team for a more deeper insight into the numbers. Was surprised to know that this list is going to explode soon to at least 150% as the total number of registered profiles including those who are yet to give their exam currently stands at 60+!

66 Developers have

more than 1 certification!

Acquia also gives a ”Grand Master”title to candidates who have cleared the first 3 examinations. There are

11 such candidates currently.

The same are listed @ http://training.acquia.com/registry/grand-masters  

14 countries have developers holding

more than 1 certification

Feels good to see India at #2, by absolute numbers. But if seen relatively, considering the large number of Drupal shops and Service Integrators in India, I think the number is still small and definitely bound to make a huge leap in the coming months.

NOTE: These numbers were scraped from the Certification Registry portal. They are no where close to being reliable. There could be some bugs from my script or the bad queries I write ;-)  

Submitted by tanay on Sat, 04/11/2015 - 12:38