Counted October 17, 2026 · from employers’ own postings
It Cybersecurity Specialist: $125K median posted pay.
From 40 salary bands employers posted on 40 open it cybersecurity specialist roles in it & security. Never an estimate.
The ladder, by level
What each rung pays.
No level is named often enough in these postings to build a ladder.
Levels as the postings name them. A rung shows a median only where eight or more postings at that level carried a band.
Who is hiring
The employers with the most open.
| Employer | Open roles | Entry level |
|---|---|---|
| Defense Finance and Accounting Service | 12 | — |
| Defense Information Systems Agency | 10 | — |
| Office of Inspector General | 4 | — |
| Defense Logistics Agency | 4 | — |
| Secretary of the Navy Offices (SECNAV) | 3 | — |
| Naval Air Systems Command | 3 | — |
| Department of the Air Force Headquarters | 1 | — |
| Army National Guard Units | 1 | — |
| Office of Administration | 1 | — |
| U.S. Army Cyber Command | 1 | — |
Counted from employers’ own job boards. The ten with the most open it cybersecurity specialist roles tonight.
The skills, as the postings name them
What these postings ask for.
| Skill | Postings | At entry |
|---|---|---|
| Cybersecurity | 40 | — |
| Security Engineering | 4 | — |
| Military Operations | 3 | — |
| Auditing | 1 | — |
| Emergency Response | 1 | — |
Where the work is
0% of these roles are remote.
- Remote0%0 roles
- Hybrid0%0 roles
- On site55%22 roles
- Not stated45%18 roles
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How this was counted
Every figure is counted from 40 open postings read from employers’ own job boards on October 17, 2026, and recounted every night. Pay is the band the employer posted — never an estimate, never a model — and 40 of these postings carried one. Titles are grouped by the words the postings use, with levels, shifts and schedules removed, so “Senior It Cybersecurity Specialist (Nights)” counts here too. 100% of roles with this title sit in it & security, which is why this page belongs to that career. A title gets a page only where twenty-five or more roles are open, eight or more of them posted a band, three or more employers are hiring for it and four in five of its postings sit in one career, so no page here is a guess.