Counted October 17, 2026 · from employers’ own postings
It Specialist: $106K median posted pay.
From 190 salary bands employers posted on 203 open it specialist roles in it & security. Never an estimate.
The ladder, by level
What each rung pays.
| Level | Open roles | Median posted band | Middle half |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | 6 | — (6 of 8 bands) | — |
| Intern | 1 | — (0 of 8 bands) | — |
| Junior | 1 | — (1 of 8 bands) | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Air National Guard Units | 34 | — |
| Army National Guard Units | 20 | — |
| Deputy Assistant Secretary for Information and Technology | 19 | — |
| Immediate Office of the Chief of Naval Operations | 14 | — |
| Social Security Administration | 8 | — |
| Patent and Trademark Office | 6 | — |
| Naval Air Systems Command | 6 | — |
| Federal Aviation Administration | 6 | — |
| Defense Finance and Accounting Service | 5 | — |
| Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency | 4 | — |
Counted from employers’ own job boards. The ten with the most open it specialist roles tonight.
The skills, as the postings name them
What these postings ask for.
| Skill | Postings | At entry |
|---|---|---|
| Cybersecurity | 34 | — |
| Help Desk Support | 31 | — |
| System Administration | 14 | — |
| Cloud Infrastructure | 8 | — |
| Endpoint Management | 8 | — |
| Identity Governance | 8 | — |
| Customer Service | 7 | — |
| ITIL Practice | 6 | — |
| Account Management | 6 | — |
| Triage | 6 | — |
Where the work is
0% of these roles are remote.
- Remote0%1 roles
- Hybrid1%2 roles
- On site73%148 roles
- Not stated26%52 roles
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How this was counted
Every figure is counted from 203 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 190 of these postings carried one. Titles are grouped by the words the postings use, with levels, shifts and schedules removed, so “Senior It 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.