Cloud Infrastructure Careers in Japan: What 739 Job Postings Ask For
Every figure on this page summarizes job postings tracked on AirTA. It describes what employers asked for in their postings, in aggregate, and is shown the same way to every reader. It is not a description of any individual’s career or prospects.
- 739
- 198
- 50%
- 43%
What Gets You In
1-2 years of experience
96
3-4 years of experience
134
5-9 years of experience
112
10+ years of experience
30
11%
15% day-to-day or above
Cloud certification (AWS / Azure / GCP) 14%
PMP 8%
AWS
59%
Azure
41%
Project Management
31%
Linux
28%
Google Cloud
27%
Python
17%
Terraform
17%
CI/CD
16%
739 postings
Levels by Experience
1–2 years
6%
6% day-to-day or above
Cloud certification (AWS / Azure / GCP) 24%
PMP 13%
96 postings
3–4 years
7%
11% day-to-day or above
Cloud certification (AWS / Azure / GCP) 20%
PMP 11%
Google Cloud 36% (+17)
Terraform 29% (+16)
CI/CD 25% (+14)
Kubernetes 22% (+12)
SQL 23% (+10)
134 postings
5–9 years
16%
30% day-to-day or above
PMP 9%
Cloud certification (AWS / Azure / GCP) 6%
Project Management 46% (+19)
112 postings
10+ years
17%
33% day-to-day or above
Cloud certification (AWS / Azure / GCP) 17%
Stakeholder Management 40% (+24)
30 postings
Stated Pay
Median ¥7,200,000 · 320 postings state pay
¥6,200,000
25th to 75th percentile of stated salaries
¥9,000,000
Median ¥6,200,000 · 46 postings state pay
¥4,800,000
25th to 75th percentile of stated salaries
¥7,000,000
Median ¥7,300,000 · 69 postings state pay
¥6,300,000
25th to 75th percentile of stated salaries
¥9,000,000
Median ¥8,300,000 · 34 postings state pay
¥6,800,000
25th to 75th percentile of stated salaries
¥9,900,000
Working Conditions
- 124 days
118 postings
- 20 h
106 postings
- 32%
- 18%
Fully remote
47
Hybrid
190
On-site
27
739 postings
What Comes Next
People management
32
Specialist track
28
Project management
28
Senior leadership
11
Employers naming each step, of 39 that name one
Levels by Job Title
Specialist track
Entry / new graduate
8
Junior / associate
5
Senior
32
Principal
2
Management track
Team lead
72
Manager
20
Director
5
Individual-contributor level
47 postings from 28 employers
Every figure below summarizes job postings tracked on AirTA at this level. It describes what employers asked for in their postings, not any individual.
These figures summarize other postings tracked on AirTA, not this role.
Cloud Infrastructure · individual-contributor level
median ¥6,750,000 · 11 postings
Too few stated salaries to publish a range
English · 43 postings
Daily English
19%
Some English
47%
No English stated
35%
Japanese · 47 postings
Native/Fluent (Native or JLPT N1)
64%
Professional Working Proficiency (JLPT N2)
15%
Limited Working Proficiency (JLPT N3)
9%
Not required
6%
No level stated
6%
5 years median (middle half 3 to 5)
over 30 postings stating a threshold
9% of postings (4)
Cloud certification (AWS / Azure / GCP) (19%)
Team-lead level
72 postings from 21 employers
Every figure below summarizes job postings tracked on AirTA at this level. It describes what employers asked for in their postings, not any individual.
These figures summarize other postings tracked on AirTA, not this role.
Cloud Infrastructure · team-lead level
median ¥8,600,000 · 20 postings
Too few stated salaries to publish a range
English · 70 postings
Daily English
3%
Some English
14%
No English stated
83%
Japanese · 71 postings
Native/Fluent (Native or JLPT N1)
96%
Professional Working Proficiency (JLPT N2)
4%
5 years median (middle half 2 to 5)
over 37 postings stating a threshold
25% of postings (18)
PMP (18%)
Cloud certification (AWS / Azure / GCP) (15%)
Azure 60% (+24 pts over the level below)
Project Management 44% (+21 pts over the level below)
terms counted over 72 postings at this level
14 openings are titled as a candidate for this level
Manager level
20 postings from 10 employers
Every figure below summarizes job postings tracked on AirTA at this level. It describes what employers asked for in their postings, not any individual.
These figures summarize other postings tracked on AirTA, not this role.
Cloud Infrastructure · manager level
English · 18 postings
Daily English
33%
Some English
28%
No English stated
39%
Japanese · 20 postings
Native/Fluent (Native or JLPT N1)
55%
Professional Working Proficiency (JLPT N2)
35%
No level stated
10%
5 years median (middle half 3 to 5.75)
over 12 postings stating a threshold
45% of postings (9)
SQL 25% (+19 pts over the level below)
terms counted over 20 postings at this level
5 openings are titled as a candidate for this level
Who Is Hiring
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is the Cloud Infrastructure career ladder?
A level-by-level summary of what live Cloud Infrastructure job postings tracked on AirTA ask for. Levels come from job titles (manager, director, senior and so on) and, separately, from the years of experience a posting states. Every figure is a statistic over those postings, refreshed daily.
Where do the numbers come from?
From the job postings AirTA collects from employer career sites and applicant tracking systems. Years of experience, certifications and management experience are read from the posting text; the level is read from the title; pay is the salary the employer stated on the posting. Nothing is estimated for an individual.
Why is there no pay figure at some levels?
A pay band publishes only when at least 30 postings at that level state a salary, and a median only from 10. Senior-level pay is rarely published in Japan, so the honest answer at some levels is no figure rather than a figure borrowed from another level.
What does "candidate for" mean?
Some postings are titled 「マネージャー候補」 or "Manager Candidate": the employer states in the title that the opening is for someone who will grow into that level. The ladder counts those titles as the employer wrote them. It does not predict anyone’s promotion.
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