Career switch, measured
From Project Manager to IT Project Manager
Yes, it's a close move. Measured across current postings, the two roles have 64% skill overlap. Skills that carry over include Project management, Stakeholder management, Leadership, Budgeting; the main skills to add are AWS, Sales, Python, Customer success.
64%
skill overlap
243
open IT Project Manager postings read
Skills that carry over
Share of each role’s postings that ask for the skill.
SkillProject ManagerIT Project Manager
- Project management76%47%
- Stakeholder management40%67%
- Leadership58%55%
- Budgeting61%31%
- Risk management14%15%
- Process improvement16%20%
- Procurement29%13%
- Agile9%23%
Skills to add
Asked for often in IT Project Manager postings, rarely in Project Manager ones.
SkillProject ManagerIT Project Manager
- AWS–30%
- Sales11%27%
- Python–20%
- Customer success–20%
- SQL–19%
- Supply chain6%18%
- Databricks–16%
- LLMs–12%
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