Career switch, measured
From Engineering Manager to IT Manager
Yes, it's a close move. Measured across current postings, the two roles have 82% skill overlap. Skills that carry over include Leadership, Training and coaching, Stakeholder management, AWS; the main skills to add are Team management, Sales, Troubleshooting, Contract negotiation.
82%
skill overlap
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Skills that carry over
Share of each role’s postings that ask for the skill.
SkillEngineering ManagerIT Manager
- Leadership73%72%
- Training and coaching57%54%
- Stakeholder management31%36%
- AWS19%33%
- LLMs15%13%
- Product management11%11%
- Agile11%14%
- Process improvement18%15%
Skills to add
Asked for often in IT Manager postings, rarely in Engineering Manager ones.
SkillEngineering ManagerIT Manager
- Team management10%28%
- Sales10%21%
- Troubleshooting–11%
- Contract negotiation–10%
- Data visualization–9%
- Linux–8%
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