Your Guide to Nutanix Certifications (and What They Pay)

April 25, 2024 | What's Hot | 6 min read

"The cloud" has become more than just a buzzword. It's the cornerstone of modern business. Cloud computing offers unparalleled agility, scalability, and cost-efficiency to businesses of all sizes and sectors, fundamentally reshaping how organizations operate.

As businesses increasingly migrate to or rely on the cloud, the demand for skilled professionals who can navigate this ever-expanding realm continues to surge. In fact, according to our recent IT Skills and Salary Report, 82% of decision-makers say the demand for cloud computing skills is increasing within their organizations.

Consequently, individuals who are proficient in cloud computing have emerged as some of the most sought-after in the job market. As a result, most tech leaders are dealing with an unwavering skills gap. 

When it comes to cloud computing, only 13% of tech leaders feel very confident in their team's abilities. The majority (37%) assess their teams' skills as somewhere between novice and expert.

To navigate this landscape, where skills are important currency, certifications have emerged as powerful credentials that validate expertise and differentiate candidates. 

Nutanix is a Top Cloud Provider

Looking at the results from our IT Skills and Salary Report, Nutanix is one of the top 10 vendors that tech leaders plan to invest in this year. Becoming certified is a valuable investment for those professionals who work with Nutanix’s platform or plan to specialize their skills further.

Nutanix offers certifications that not only validate expertise but also provide in-depth knowledge and practical skills essential for deploying, managing, and optimizing modern cloud environments.

Globally, 408 survey respondents reported having earned a Nutanix certification in our recent IT Skills and Salary survey. We break down the most popular certifications worldwide below, showing the average earnings of individuals with the respective certifications. You can also see our methodology for this list at the end of the post.

What Nutanix Certifications Pay Worldwide (on Average)

CertificationAverage Salary
Nutanix Platform Expert (NPX) $138,573*
Nutanix Certified Professional - End User Computing (NCP-EUC) v6 $110,034*
Nutanix Certified Professional - Database Automation (NCP-DB) v6 $109,056*
Nutanix Certified Expert - Multicloud Infrastructure (NCX-MCI) $102,952*
Nutanix Certified Master - Multicloud Infrastructure (NCM-MCI) v6.5 $92,900
Nutanix Certified Professional - Multicloud Automation (NCP-MCA) v6 $91,974*
Nutanix Certified Master - Multicloud Infrastructure (NCM-MCI) v5.20 $79,777
Nutanix Certified Professional - Unified Storage (NCP-US) v6 $76,495
Nutanix Certified Professional - Multicloud Infrastructure (NCP-MCI) v6.5 $73,506
Nutanix Certified Associate (NCA) v6.5 $67,428

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What Nutanix Certifications Pay in the U.S. (on Average)*

CertificationAverage Salary
Nutanix Certified Professional - Database Automation (NCP-DB) v6 $167,495
Nutanix Certified Professional - End User Computing (NCP-EUC) v6 $166,116
Nutanix Certified Master - Multicloud Infrastructure (NCM-MCI) v5.20 $155,949
Nutanix Certified Professional - Unified Storage (NCP-US) v6 $151,309
Nutanix Certified Expert - Multicloud Infrastructure (NCX-MCI) $147,246
Nutanix Platform Expert (NPX) $140,667
Nutanix Certified Professional - Multicloud Infrastructure (NCP-MCI) v6.5 $139,361
Nutanix Certified Associate (NCA) v6.5 $139,318
Nutanix Certified Professional - Multicloud Automation (NCP-MCA) v6 $139,306
Nutanix Certified Master - Multicloud Infrastructure (NCM-MCI) v6.5 $136,875

Nutanix Certified Associate (NCA)

Those looking to pursue a Nutanix Certified Associate (NCA) certification are typically looking to be in a systems administrator, engineer, or IT operator role.

Despite being an associate-level exam, the most successful candidates have approximately 6 to 12 months of holistic IT infrastructure experience, as well as 3 to 6 months of Nutanix virtualization experience. Participants will be asked to navigate and identify components within the Nutanix user interface such as:

  • Describe lifecycle management
  • Describe Nutanix fundamental concepts
  • Explain cluster alerts and monitoring administration
  • Describe storage concepts
  • Explain virtual infrastructure administration
  • Describe Nutanix solutions

Nutanix Certified Professional - Multicloud Infrastructure (NCP-MCI)

The Nutanix Certified Professional - Multicloud Infrastructure (NCP-MCI) certification confirms your ability to administer the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform and successfully deploy and manage Nutanix products in your organization.

Being a professional-level certification, it is recommended that candidates have approximately 1 to 2 years of general IT infrastructure experience, and at least 6 months of Nutanix virtualization experience as the exam will cover one’s ability to:

  • Manage cluster, nodes, features, as well as cluster storage
  • Configure cluster networking and network security
  • Configure, analyze, and remediate performance issues, alerts, and events
  • Manage VM deployment and configuration

Resources to help you earn this certification:

  • how-to guide to earn the Nutanix Multicloud Infrastructure Certification
  • Skillsoft’s Global Knowledge live, instructor-led prep course

Nutanix Certified Professional - Unified Storage (NCP-US)

For IT professionals, architects, and systems administrators, the Nutanix Certified Professional – Unified Storage (NCP-US) certification validates your skills and abilities to deploy, configure, optimize, troubleshoot, and perform administrative tasks on the Nutanix Unified Storage technologies: Files, Objects, and Volumes.

Like other professional-level certifications, candidates for the NCP-US certification typically have 1 to 2 years of general IT experience, with 6 to 12 months of data storage experience. The exam covers the following areas:

  • Deploy and upgrade Nutanix Unified Storage
  • Configure and utilize Nutanix Unified Storage
  • Analyze and monitor Nutanix Unified Storage
  • Troubleshoot Nutanix Unified Storage

Nutanix Certified Professional - End User Computing (NCP-EUC)

Calling all end user computing administrators, architects, and consultants who need to manage the Nutanix platform. This is the exam for you.

The Nutanix Certified Professional - End User Computing (NCP-EUC) certification measures your ability to successfully deploy, monitor, administer, troubleshoot and maintain end user computing environments utilizing the Nutanix platform.

Successful candidates have approximately 6 to 12 months of experience administering EUC technologies in a Nutanix environment, and 18 to 24 months of support in one or more of these areas: desktop support, virtualization support, and network support.

Nutanix Certified Professional - Multicloud Automation (NCP-MCA)

This certification is for IT professionals who are interested in pursuing, or currently engaged in, DevOps concepts and/or multicloud automation using Nutanix technologies.

The Nutanix Certified Professional - Multicloud Automation (NCP-MCA) certification measures your knowledge of automation principles, as well as the automation capabilities built into the Nutanix platform. 

It’s recommended for candidates to have 3 to 6 months of experience with leveraging Nutanix products to automate the deployment of infrastructure and applications across a hybrid multicloud environment as you’ll be asked to:

  • Describe and differentiate automation concepts and principles
  • Deploy and configure self-service and related components
  • Validate blueprints, runbooks, playbooks, and automation settings

Nutanix Certified Professional - Database Automation (NCP-DB)

Those interested in this certificate are typically database administrators, Nutanix technical employees, Nutanix channel partners, Nutanix OEM vendors, and Nutanix customers who are capable of successfully provisioning, patching, protecting, and cloning Nutanix Database Service (NDB) managed databases. 

The Nutanix Certified Professional - Database Automation (NCP-DB) certification measures your ability to deploy, administer, optimize, and troubleshoot database workloads using NDB.

Successful candidates have approximately 1 to 2 years of database management experience, while having at least 6 months of Nutanix Database Service or Nutanix Era experience. 

Nutanix Certified Master - Multicloud Infrastructure (NCM-MCI)

For advanced IT professionals, the Nutanix Certified Master - Multicloud Infrastructure (NCM-MCI) certification measures your ability to analyze, evaluate, and optimize the Nutanix platform performance, configuration, and health. 

To earn this expert-level certification, it’s suggested that candidates have approximately 3 to 5 years of holistic IT infrastructure experience and 2 to 3 years of Nutanix virtualization experience as you’ll be tested on your ability to:

  • Analyze and optimize storage performance
  • Analyze and optimize network performance 
  • Conduct advanced configuration and troubleshooting 
  • Analyze and optimize VM performance 
  • Analyze BCDR plans for compliance 

Nutanix Certified Expert - Multicloud Infrastructure (NCX-MCI)

The goal of this certification is to prepare candidates to engage with enterprise customers and design Nutanix Multicloud solutions that deliver real business value.

The Nutanix Certified Expert - Multicloud Infrastructure (NCX-MCI) tests a candidate’s ability to design enterprise-scale solutions that support business-critical applications with service-level agreements specified by business stakeholders. 

As this is an expert-level exam, candidates must demonstrate mastery of the Nutanix Design Method and present a solution that meets or exceeds customer requirements for Scalability, Resiliency, Performance, Manageability, Data Protection, Recoverability, Regulatory Compliance, Security, and TCO/ROI.

Nutanix Platform Expert (NPX)

For those superb technologists, the Nutanix Platform Expert (NPX) is a peer-vetted, hypervisor agnostic certification designed for veteran solution engineers, consultants, and architects. 

Every NPX is a proven architect capable of designing and delivering a wide range of cutting-edge solutions custom built to support the business goals of the Global 2000 and government agencies in every region of the world.

How we built this list

This list of top-paying Nutanix certifications is based on survey responses from Skillsoft’s IT Skills and Salary Survey conducted from May to September 2023. The survey is distributed to IT professionals around the world by technology providers, certification bodies, and Skillsoft. It asks respondents about their current jobs and experience, certifications and salaries, and more. Respondents encounter multiple choice and multi-select, open-ended, rank choice, and other types of questions while taking the survey.

The focus of this list is on the 408 respondents who reported having one or more Nutanix certifications. When reporting salary figures, Skillsoft looks for at least 50 survey responses before considering relevance, demand, and other factors. *Salaries denoted with an asterisk and those salaries reported for the United States in this report do not meet the 50-respondent minimum. Salaries are not normalized for cost-of-living or location.