A vendor or industry certification tests whether you can do the work and says nothing about where you learned it. In some occupations employers weight it above a four-year degree. It is also the fastest thing to stack on top of an existing job, which matters if you cannot stop earning.
For this occupation specifically
2,254,000 people do this work. 20.3% are women and 6.1% are Hispanic, so roughly 27,911 are Latina. BLS describes the usual way in as apprenticeship, bootcamp, CS associate degree, self-taught with portfolio.
Sources. Employment totals and the share of each
occupation that is women and that is Hispanic: US Bureau of Labor Statistics,
Current Population Survey annual
averages, reproduced as published. The Latina share is an estimate: BLS publishes the two shares
separately and not their intersection, so the two are multiplied and labelled as such everywhere it
appears. County economic type: USDA Economic Research Service County Typology Codes; labour markets:
2020 Commuting Zones. Funded training routes: WIOA through local workforce boards, registered
apprenticeships via apprenticeship.gov, and federal student aid via studentaid.gov. We publish the
source so the arithmetic can be checked rather than trusted.