Remote IT Jobs: Remote IT Careers, IT Support Jobs and Remote Cybersecurity Jobs

Essentially all of them except the ones that require your hands on the hardware. If the work is done through a terminal, a ticketing system, a cloud console or a code repository, location stops mattering, and that describes most of modern IT. The jobs that still pull people on site are the ones involving physical kit: racking servers, running cable, imaging laptops for new starters, and depot repair.

The federal telework data confirms it at group level. Here is how computer and mathematical occupations compare with the rest of the workforce, using 2025 annual averages from the Current Population Survey.

One limit worth stating plainly, because most pages that quote this data hide it: BLS publishes these telework shares at the level of the occupational group, never for a single occupation. So the 36.1 percent covers software developers, systems administrators, security analysts, database administrators and statisticians together. It tells you the lane is wide open. It does not tell you the exact odds for one job title, and anyone presenting a per occupation figure from this table has made it up.

The ones where the work is already mediated by tools rather than by presence. There is a federal dataset that measures exactly this, and almost nobody uses it. O*NET, which is built for the US Department of Labor, scores every occupation on a work context descriptor called Degree of Automation (element 4.C.3.b.2), rated 0 to 100. It asks how automated the job already is. A job that runs through consoles, scripts and monitoring systems scores high, and a job that runs through a room full of people scores low.

Here is the whole computer and IT family on that scale, alongside the May 2025 median wage and the 2025 to 2035 employment projection for each.

Read that table next to the usual career advice and something is off. The standard line is that the help desk is the most automated corner of IT and therefore the first to go. The federal descriptor says the opposite: computer user support specialists score 27, near the bottom of the family, while the most automated IT work by a distance is infrastructure and security engineering, at 50 and 53. For scale, the highest scoring occupation in the entire O*NET catalogue is travel agents at 70, so even the sysadmins are nowhere near the ceiling.

Two things follow, and they matter in different ways. First, a high score here means the work is already done through tooling, which is precisely what makes a job portable: you can run a Terraform plan or a SIEM console from anywhere, which is why infrastructure and security roles were remote long before the rest of the office caught up. Second, and this is the correction, the score is not a prediction. It measures how automated the work already is, as reported by people doing it, not how likely the occupation is to disappear. Notice that automation score and pay barely relate at all: computer network architects score 36 and earn $134,050, software developers score 31 and earn $134,040, a gap of ten dollars in median pay across five points of automation. Use the column to judge how well a job travels, not how safe it is.

Yes, and remote help desk work is the most common entry point into IT, but the federal projections say it is also the one door that is closing. Computer support specialists is the largest occupation in the family after software developers, with 903,100 jobs in 2025, and BLS projects it to shrink 3 percent by 2035, a loss of 24,300 positions. Network and computer systems administrators, the usual next step up, is projected to fall 4 percent, another 13,200 positions. Those are the only two declining occupations in the computer and IT family, and together they account for 37,500 fewer jobs.

There is a split inside help desk work that is worth real money and almost never appears in a job ad. BLS reports the two halves separately. Computer user support specialists, the people who help end users, had a median wage of $61,860 in May 2025. Computer network support specialists, the people who support the network itself, had a median of $76,220. That is $14,360 a year between two roles that are both advertised as IT support. When you read a listing, look for which side of that line it sits on: tickets from employees about their laptops and passwords is user support, while monitoring, troubleshooting and documenting the network is network support.

The other number to hold on to is the spread. Within user support the lowest paid 10 percent earned under $40,980 and the highest paid 10 percent earned more than $100,540. So the ceiling on the entry level job is roughly two and a half times its floor, which means the title tells you very little and the employer tells you almost everything. Our board carries technical support roles with the range published on the listing, which is the only way to compare two of these offers honestly.

Yes. The median computer and IT occupation paid $109,470 in May 2025, which is more than double the $50,980 median across all US occupations. But the family is wide, and the distance between its ends is larger than most people expect. The lowest paid tenth of computer user support specialists earned under $40,980, while the top tenth of information security analysts earned more than $199,850. That is a range of nearly five to one inside a single occupational family, and every job in it is called an IT job.

The clearest way to see where the money is going is to line up two occupations that sit in the same domain and are heading in opposite directions. Network and computer systems administrators earn a median of $99,130 and are projected to lose 13,200 jobs by 2035. Information security analysts earn a median of $129,180 and are projected to gain 40,600, a 21 percent rise and the fastest growth rate in the family. That is $30,050 a year and 25 percentage points of growth separating two jobs that often sit in the same department and are frequently done by the same person early on. If you already run infrastructure, the security side of your own work is the highest return thing you can specialize into, and it does not require starting over.

Software developers remain the volume employer, with 1,905,400 jobs in 2025 and a projected 185,400 more by 2035, more than every other occupation in the family combined. If you are weighing that path specifically, our remote software engineer jobs page covers it separately, and high paying remote jobs compares the top of the range across every field we track.

Start by noticing something in the BLS entry level education column, because it is the most useful fact on this page for anyone without a degree. Every occupation in the computer and IT family lists a bachelor's degree as the typical entry level education, with exactly one exception. For computer support specialists, BLS declines to name a level at all and points to its own guidance instead, and it records the training route as moderate term on the job training. That is the only unlocked door in the family, and it is also, from the section above, the only one projected to shrink. Both things are true at once, and planning around only one of them is how people get stuck.

The practical version: use support as the entrance, not the destination, and decide within the first two years which way you are going up. The two exits with the best numbers behind them are security, where information security analysts are growing 21 percent, and systems analysis, where computer systems analysts are growing 8 percent on a base of 544,400 jobs and pay a median of $105,850. Both of those are reachable from a help desk seat because both reward the thing support work actually teaches you, which is how the whole estate fits together.

Three things make a remote application land. Write the ticket you would send, not the adjectives you would use about yourself: one short paragraph describing how you diagnosed something specific beats a page of competencies. Name your timezone and your working hours in the first two lines, because a hiring manager filtering forty applications is looking for the overlap before anything else. And apply in the first week, since fresh postings get read first, which is why this board only carries listings from the last 30 days. Our ranking of the best entry level remote IT jobs for career changers puts all eight occupations in order of annual openings, which is the number that actually decides how many chances you get. If you are early in your career generally, entry level remote jobs lists the openings that do not ask for years of experience, and remote jobs no degree covers the roles outside IT with the same open door.