Career switch, measured
From Scrum Master to IT Project Manager
Yes, it's a close move. Measured across current postings, the two roles have 51% skill overlap. Skills that carry over include Stakeholder management, Project management, Leadership, Agile; the main skills to add are Budgeting, AWS, Sales, Python.
51%
skill overlap
243
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Skills that carry over
Share of each role’s postings that ask for the skill.
SkillScrum MasterIT Project Manager
- Stakeholder management56%67%
- Project management33%47%
- Leadership54%55%
- Agile100%23%
- Process improvement50%20%
- Azure19%12%
- CI/CD15%11%
- Risk management10%15%
Skills to add
Asked for often in IT Project Manager postings, rarely in Scrum Master ones.
SkillScrum MasterIT Project Manager
- Budgeting10%31%
- AWS–30%
- Sales–27%
- Python–20%
- Customer success–20%
- SQL–19%
- Supply chain–18%
- Databricks–16%
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