Career switch, measured
From IT Project Manager to Cloud Engineer
Yes, it's a close move. Measured across current postings, the two roles have 55% skill overlap. Skills that carry over include Stakeholder management, AWS, Databricks, Leadership; the main skills to add are Sales, Google Cloud, LLMs, Kubernetes.
55%
skill overlap
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Skills that carry over
Share of each role’s postings that ask for the skill.
SkillIT Project ManagerCloud Engineer
- Stakeholder management67%41%
- AWS30%68%
- Databricks16%19%
- Leadership55%47%
- SQL19%18%
- Customer success20%26%
- Python20%33%
- Azure12%36%
Skills to add
Asked for often in Cloud Engineer postings, rarely in IT Project Manager ones.
SkillIT Project ManagerCloud Engineer
- Sales27%64%
- Google Cloud–27%
- LLMs12%26%
- Kubernetes–16%
- Java–15%
- Machine learning–13%
- Snowflake–11%
- C#–9%
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