As of Oct 7, 2026, our inventory holds 227 open Information Technology Management postings that are either fully remote or telework eligible, spread across 76 agencies, and 197 of them were posted in the last 30 days. Those figures are a count, not an estimate: every day we pull the current federal listings from the USAJOBS API, keep the ones that allow remote work or telework, and tag each by occupational category. Information Technology Management is the federal 2210 series, the one most IT and cybersecurity jobs are posted under, and it is usually among the larger categories in our inventory. The rest of this guide explains what the data shows about federal IT work, how the 2210 qualification standard works, and how to search for these roles.
Why IT work suits remote and telework arrangements
A few structural reasons make technology roles a natural fit for remote and telework arrangements, and a hiring priority for agencies broadly. The work is inherently portable: writing code, administering systems, and analyzing security logs does not require presence at a particular building the way many operational government roles do. Government-wide investment in cybersecurity has grown steadily, driven by the volume of threats against federal systems, and that has meant sustained hiring across nearly every agency, not only defense and intelligence ones. And the federal government competes directly with the private sector for the same technical talent, so telework flexibility is one of the few levers an agency can pull without outbidding private salaries. Here are the largest occupational categories in our inventory today; where IT sits on it moves with each hiring round:
- Miscellaneous Administration and Program 317 listings
- Information Technology Management 227 listings
- Medical Officer 200 listings
- Management and Program Analysis 175 listings
- Attorney 173 listings
What roles fall under this category
The 2210 series covers a wide range of specific work, and announcements usually name the specialty in parentheses after the title. The parenthetical codes you will see include APPSW (applications software), INFOSEC (information security, which is where most cybersecurity jobs sit), NETWORK, SYSADMIN (systems administration), CUSTSPT (customer support), DATAMGT (data management), OS (operating systems), INET (internet), PLCYPLN (policy and planning), SYSANALYSIS (systems analysis), and ENTARCH (enterprise architecture). An “IT Specialist (INFOSEC)” and an “IT Specialist (APPSW)” are both 2210 jobs with the same pay scale and the same qualification standard, but very different daily work. If your background is in any of these areas, search the whole category rather than assuming only postings with your exact private-sector title apply to you; federal titles do not map cleanly onto industry ones.
Not every federal technology job is a 2210. Computer scientists, electronics engineers, and some data scientists are posted under other series and appear on other category pages, so if you do not find your specialty here, check the categories page as well.
Fully remote or telework eligible?
Two tiers decide where you can live. A posting is fully remote when the agency marks it remote on USAJOBS, so the work can be done from an approved location anywhere in the country. A posting is telework eligible when it carries a specific duty station and the agency lets you work from home part of the time. We never merge the two. Here is today’s split across every IT management posting we hold:
Fully remote postings make up 0.9% of the category right now. That share is the one to set your expectations by, and it is a reminder that IT being portable does not make it remote in practice: the 2025 return-to-office directive applied to technology staff like everyone else, and the explainer on why remote federal jobs became rare covers that history. If you can live near a federal office, the telework tier is where nearly all of the category sits.
Which agencies post IT jobs
IT postings are spread more widely across government than most categories, because every agency runs systems. The agencies with the most open IT management postings in our inventory right now are:
- U.S. Army Cyber Command 22 listings
- Deputy Assistant Secretary for Information and Technology 17 listings
- Defense Information Systems Agency 15 listings
- Immediate Office of the Chief of Naval Operations 11 listings
- Army National Guard Units 8 listings
- Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency 8 listings
- Defense Logistics Agency 8 listings
- Department of Education Headquarters 7 listings
Each name links to that agency’s hub, where you can see every listing we hold for it and judge whether its IT postings are a steady stream or a single hiring round. Defense agencies and military commands tend to lead the list, and they are also the ones most likely to require a security clearance. Civilian agencies post fewer IT jobs each but are more likely to need only a public trust determination.
What they pay
Advertised pay on IT management postings we hold currently runs from $48,719 to $264,489 a year, with a typical figure of $130,369. The GS grades advertised span 5–15.
A word on “typical,” because it is doing real work here. A federal announcement advertises a range, not a single salary, and the range can be wide when a job is open at several grades. For each posting we take the midpoint of its advertised range; the typical figure is the median of those midpoints across every posting in the category. The low and high ends are the lowest and highest bounds advertised on any posting, so they describe the edges of the market, not what most applicants are offered. Postings that publish no usable pay figure are left out of all three numbers, and the grade range counts only postings on the GS ladder; some agencies pay IT staff on their own systems. Remember that fully remote employees are generally paid on the locality table for where they live, which the GS pay scale guide explains.
How the 2210 qualification standard works
The 2210 series does not require a specific degree. Instead, OPM’s qualification standard asks for IT-related experience that demonstrates four competencies: attention to detail, customer service, oral communication, and problem solving. Announcements in the series typically list those four, and your resume needs to show each one in your own work history rather than simply list them. Beyond that, the usual grade rule applies: for most grades, you need one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower GS grade, and the announcement spells out what counts as specialized at that grade. At the lower grades, education can substitute for experience in ways each announcement specifies. Read the qualifications section line by line and address it directly in the federal resume; the questionnaire that follows is scored against that section.
Security clearances: read this carefully
A meaningful share of federal IT and cybersecurity positions require a security clearance, particularly anything touching defense, intelligence, or classified systems. Requirements vary enormously. Some roles need none, some need a public trust determination, and some need a Top Secret clearance with additional access requirements. Always check the requirement stated in the specific announcement; it is one of the biggest practical filters on which roles you can realistically pursue, and clearance investigations are one of the biggest sources of delay in the application timeline.
Federal vs. contractor IT work
Both agencies and federal contractors hire heavily in this space, and the experience differs. Direct federal roles go through the hiring process and GS pay structure described above, with federal job security and benefits. Contractor roles at companies such as GDIT, CACI, and Booz Allen Hamilton hire under ordinary private-sector processes, often move faster, and were never subject to the federal return-to-office directive, so the contractor side of our inventory has its own remote market. Contractor postings carry no occupational series, so they do not appear on the category page; find them on the companies page.
How to search for these
Start at the Information Technology Management category hub, which lists every open 2210 posting we hold with its tier, agency, and advertised pay, refreshed daily from USAJOBS. If you need fully remote work, the fully remote list is the complete set of fully remote postings in our inventory; it is small, so look for IT titles there every few days rather than once a month. If you can live near a federal office, the telework list holds every telework-eligible posting with its duty station. If you are starting out, the entry-level page collects federal postings whose lowest grade is GS-7 or below, and 2210 jobs do open at those grades. Every listing links to the original USAJOBS announcement, which is where you apply.