IT Project Management Careers in Japan: What 672 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.
- 672
- 142
- 53%
- 30%
What Gets You In
1-2 years of experience
60
3-4 years of experience
135
5-9 years of experience
126
10+ years of experience
37
32%
16% day-to-day or above
PMP 28%
Project Management
75%
Stakeholder Management
34%
AWS
27%
Azure
23%
Data Analysis
21%
Generative AI
20%
Agile
17%
Java
17%
672 postings
Levels by Experience
1–2 years
30%
8% day-to-day or above
PMP 30%
60 postings
3–4 years
39%
16% day-to-day or above
PMP 36%
Cloud certification (AWS / Azure / GCP) 10%
Project Management 79% (+16)
Generative AI 33% (+11)
135 postings
5–9 years
33%
22% day-to-day or above
PMP 30%
126 postings
10+ years
41%
35% day-to-day or above
PMP 30%
37 postings
Stated Pay
Median ¥8,400,000 · 203 postings state pay
¥7,300,000
25th to 75th percentile of stated salaries
¥10,100,000
Median ¥8,300,000 · 53 postings state pay
¥7,300,000
25th to 75th percentile of stated salaries
¥11,500,000
Median ¥9,000,000 · 36 postings state pay
¥8,400,000
25th to 75th percentile of stated salaries
¥9,700,000
Working Conditions
- 124 days
75 postings
- 20 h
51 postings
- 30%
- 15%
Fully remote
53
Hybrid
154
On-site
7
672 postings
What Comes Next
People management
27
Project management
24
Senior leadership
20
Specialist track
13
Employers naming each step, of 34 that name one
Levels by Job Title
Specialist track
Entry / new graduate
4
Senior
20
Management track
Team lead
155
Manager
30
Director
7
Individual-contributor level
24 postings from 16 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.
IT Project Management · individual-contributor level
English · 21 postings
Daily English
14%
Some English
29%
No English stated
57%
Japanese · 22 postings
Native/Fluent (Native or JLPT N1)
77%
Professional Working Proficiency (JLPT N2)
9%
Limited Working Proficiency (JLPT N3)
5%
No level stated
9%
5 years median (middle half 5 to 8)
over 15 postings stating a threshold
42% of postings (10)
PMP (33%)
Team-lead level
155 postings from 25 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.
IT Project Management · team-lead level
median ¥7,700,000 · 35 postings
¥6,500,000
Typical advertised range (25th to 75th percentile)
¥8,300,000
English · 154 postings
Daily English
7%
Some English
15%
No English stated
78%
Japanese · 154 postings
Native/Fluent (Native or JLPT N1)
98%
Professional Working Proficiency (JLPT N2)
1%
Limited Working Proficiency (JLPT N3)
1%
No level stated
1%
3 years median (middle half 3 to 5)
over 92 postings stating a threshold
21% of postings (33)
PMP (35%)
Cloud certification (AWS / Azure / GCP) (9%)
Azure 28% (+24 pts over the level below)
AWS 32% (+19 pts over the level below)
Java 19% (+11 pts over the level below)
terms counted over 155 postings at this level
16 openings are titled as a candidate for this level
Manager level
30 postings from 13 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.
IT Project Management · manager level
English · 29 postings
Daily English
24%
Some English
14%
No English stated
62%
Japanese · 29 postings
Native/Fluent (Native or JLPT N1)
86%
Professional Working Proficiency (JLPT N2)
10%
Limited Working Proficiency (JLPT N3)
3%
5 years median (middle half 4 to 9)
over 15 postings stating a threshold
37% of postings (11)
PMP (23%)
5 openings are titled as a candidate for this level
Who Is Hiring
122
55
52
42
23
23
16
16
All IT Project Management openings
672 postings from 142 employers, as of 2026-09-22
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is the IT Project Management career ladder?
A level-by-level summary of what live IT Project Management 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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