Career switch, measured
From IT Manager to Cloud Engineer
Yes, it's a close move. Measured across current postings, the two roles have 59% skill overlap. Skills that carry over include AWS, Stakeholder management, Leadership, LLMs; the main skills to add are Sales, Python, Google Cloud, Customer success.
59%
skill overlap
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Skills that carry over
Share of each role’s postings that ask for the skill.
SkillIT ManagerCloud Engineer
- AWS33%68%
- Stakeholder management36%41%
- Leadership72%47%
- LLMs13%26%
- Training and coaching54%24%
- Product management11%13%
- Azure10%36%
- Linux8%8%
Skills to add
Asked for often in Cloud Engineer postings, rarely in IT Manager ones.
SkillIT ManagerCloud Engineer
- Sales21%64%
- Python9%33%
- Google Cloud–27%
- Customer success9%26%
- Databricks–19%
- SQL7%18%
- Kubernetes6%16%
- Snowflake–11%
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