IT Consulting Careers in Japan: What 203 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.
- 203
- 56
- 55%
- 27%
What Gets You In
1-2 years of experience
25
3-4 years of experience
35
5-9 years of experience
39
10+ years of experience
12
23%
21% day-to-day or above
PMP 8%
Project Management
47%
Stakeholder Management
22%
Generative AI
21%
Data Analysis
17%
AWS
16%
SaaS
15%
Agile
14%
Azure
14%
203 postings
Levels by Experience
1–2 years
20%
24% day-to-day or above
25 postings
3–4 years
20%
20% day-to-day or above
SQL 23% (+23)
Java 17% (+17)
AWS 20% (+16)
Agile 26% (+14)
API Development 14% (+14)
35 postings
5+ years
22%
22% day-to-day or above
Stakeholder Management 37% (+20)
51 postings
Stated Pay
Median ¥10,400,000 · 54 postings state pay
¥8,000,000
25th to 75th percentile of stated salaries
¥12,500,000
Working Conditions
- 33%
Fully remote
9
Hybrid
35
On-site
2
202 postings
What Comes Next
People management
13
Specialist track
11
Project management
9
Senior leadership
6
Employers naming each step, of 16 that name one
Who Is Hiring
Related Functions
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the IT Consulting career ladder?
A level-by-level summary of what live IT Consulting 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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