As of Oct 6, 2026, our inventory holds 29 open Leidos postings that are either fully remote or hybrid. Fully remote among them: 29. Posted in the last 30 days: 16. Those figures are a count, not an estimate: every day we read Leidos’s public careers listings, keep the ones that allow remote or hybrid work, and add them to the inventory beside the federal postings we pull from USAJOBS. The numbers on this page refresh with each daily rebuild, so they can be different tomorrow. Leidos gets a page of its own because it is one of the largest federal contractors by revenue, its work touches many of the government’s civilian and defense missions, and a contractor is not subject to the federal return-to-office rules that thinned the direct federal remote pool.
What Leidos does
Leidos, headquartered in Reston, Virginia, sells technology, engineering and scientific services to government customers. The work falls into a few broad lines: information technology and cybersecurity for agencies that run large networks; systems engineering and integration for defense and intelligence programs; health technology and health services for agencies that deliver or pay for care; and mission support, from logistics to analysis, for civil agencies. The customer base spans the Department of Defense, the intelligence community, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Veterans Affairs, NASA, and a long list of civilian departments.
That breadth is the point for a job seeker. A company that only served one customer would post one kind of job. Leidos posts across software, networks, data, engineering, program management, finance, contracts, logistics, clinical and health-IT roles, and the business support functions that a large contractor needs. If your background is not technical, do not skip the Leidos hub; read the titles.
Fully remote or hybrid at Leidos
Two tiers decide where you can live, and they mean the same thing for a contractor as for an agency. A posting is fully remote when the company’s listing says the work can be done from home anywhere in its hiring footprint, with no office or customer site you must report to. A posting is telework eligible, which in contractor language is usually called hybrid, when it names an office or a customer site and allows some of the week from home. We never merge the two into a vague “remote-friendly” label, because the difference is whether you must live near a particular building. Here is today’s split across every Leidos posting we hold:
Contractor postings carry an extra wrinkle that federal postings do not: the customer. A Leidos job supporting a classified program is tied to the customer’s facility no matter what the company’s own telework policy says, and a job supporting an unclassified civilian system can be genuinely remote because nothing about the work requires a secure room. The tier on each listing reflects what the posting says today; the posting itself says why. The remote vs. telework guide explains the federal side of the distinction, which is the vocabulary most of our readers arrive with.
Where Leidos sits among the contractors we track
Leidos’s share of all the contractor postings in our inventory: 8.0%. The contractors with the most open remote and hybrid postings right now are:
- CACI International 208 listings
- Booz Allen Hamilton 52 listings
- Guidehouse 39 listings
- GDIT 34 listings
- Leidos 29 listings
Each name links to that company’s hub. We track a deliberately small set of large federal contractors, chosen because they publish public careers feeds we can read without scraping and because they hire for government work in volume. So the share above is Leidos’s slice of that set, not of the whole contractor labor market, which no site counts completely. Use the list to decide where else to look: a company near the top posts enough that checking it weekly pays off, and the contractors page shows every company we cover with its current count.
How fast new ones appear
Posted in the last 30 days: 16 Leidos postings. In the last 7 days: 6. Most recent Leidos posting date: Oct 6, 2026.
Set the 30-day figure beside the total at the top of the page and you have the pace: how much of the current Leidos pool arrived within the past month. Contractor hiring runs on contract awards, so postings arrive in bursts when the company wins or renews work and need to be staffed quickly, and a posting is often filled or withdrawn within weeks. A posting that leaves the company’s feed drops out of our inventory at the next daily refresh. Check the Leidos hub every few days, newest first, rather than once a month.
Security clearances
Clearance requirements at Leidos follow the contract, not the company. Civil and health work often needs no clearance, or a public trust background check that the company sponsors after an offer. Defense and intelligence work frequently requires an active Secret or Top Secret clearance on day one, because the customer will not wait months for a new investigation. Every Leidos posting states what it requires, and a posting that asks for an active clearance you do not hold is not a near miss; it is a posting you are not eligible for. If you hold a clearance, say so, with the level and the investigation date, at the top of your resume. It is the single most valuable line you can write for a defense contractor.
How applying works, and how it differs from a federal job
Leidos hires under ordinary private-sector employment terms. You apply through the company’s careers site, with a standard professional resume rather than the long federal format described in the federal resume guide. A recruiter screens, a hiring manager interviews, and an offer can come within weeks, not the months typical of a USAJOBS process laid out in the application timeline guide. Pay is negotiated, not read off a grade table; benefits are the company’s, not FERS and FEHB. For a side-by-side of what the federal package is worth, the federal benefits guide puts dollar figures on the pension, the TSP match and the health premium share, so you can compare a contractor offer against a GS one honestly.
The work itself can be close to identical. A systems administrator at Leidos supporting an agency’s network sits beside, or logs in beside, the agency’s own administrators. What differs is the employment relationship: you work for Leidos, on a contract with a term, and when the contract ends or changes hands your job may move with it, to the next contractor or away. Contractor employees often follow the work from one company to the next for exactly that reason. That is the trade: faster hiring and more remote work, against a federal career’s tenure protections and defined benefits.
Frequently asked questions
Is Leidos only a defense contractor? No. Defense and intelligence are large parts of its business, but civil and health customers are substantial too, and those are the lines where remote work and uncleared entry points are most common. A candidate without a defense background has real routes in through the civil and health work.
Does a Leidos remote job mean remote anywhere? Usually remote within the United States, and some postings restrict the states they hire in for tax or customer reasons. The posting states the footprint; read it before you assume.
Should I apply to Leidos and to the agency it supports? Yes, if both are posting. They are separate employers with separate processes, and nothing stops you from running both at once. The agency route is slower and the contractor route is faster, so starting both on the same day gives you an answer from one while the other is still in progress.
How to search for these
Start at the Leidos hub, which lists every open Leidos posting we hold with its tier and posting date, refreshed daily from the company’s public careers listings. Every listing links to Leidos’s own posting, which is where you apply. If fully remote is non-negotiable, the fully remote list is the complete set across every employer we track, federal and contractor; if a Leidos posting is on it, it will be there. The contractors page is the place to compare Leidos with the other companies we cover, and the contracting jobs guide explains how the contractor market as a whole works.