Space Jobs for IT Professionals

Showing the 65 roles whose requirements name no degree, every country. See every role

Pay by specialty

Every specialty gets its typical band from its own open roles, computed by the same method as the rest of the site (the 25th percentile of what roles pay (the middle of each posted range, as a year's pay: an hourly rate counts at 2,080 hours, 40 a week for 52 weeks) to the 90th-percentile posted top). A specialty is listed once three or more distinct rates have been posted.

What the roles ask for

Drawn from the requirement lines of 144 out of 273 open roles for IT professionals, the same lines each role's pop-up quotes from its posting. Each role is counted once, at the lowest degree it will accept.

• Name years of experience115
• Name u.S. person status (ITAR or EAR)25
• Name a security clearance21
• Ask for a certification17
• Name an IT certification (Security+, CompTIA, ITIL, Microsoft)10
• Set a residency or work-authorization condition9
• Require programming (Python, C++, MATLAB and similar)4
• Ask for a professional license3

Where a posting states years of experience, the median ask is 5 years.

Who hires IT professionals in the space industry

Employer	Open roles	Pay stated
Muon Space	2	$83.2k–$190k/yr
Anduril	1	$147k–$196k/yr
Amazon Leo	10	$60.7k–$229k/yr
True Anomaly	2	$80k–$195k/yr
Stoke Space	2	$89k–$240k/yr
Inversion Space	1	$97k–$154k/yr
K2 Space	1	$125k–$155k/yr
Apex	3	$104k–$250k/yr
General Galactic	1	$100k–$180k/yr
Xona Space Systems	1	$70k–$90k/yr
Quindar	1	$130k–$165k/yr
Loft Orbital	3	$110k–$140k/yr
Viasat	1	$121k–$191k/yr
Impulse Space	4	$125k–$185k/yr
Blue Origin	3	$62.2k–$157k/yr
KBR	3	$80k–$207k/yr
Quantum Space	1	$110k–$130k/yr
HawkEye 360	1	$155k–$200k/yr
Millennium Space Systems	1	$103k–$174k/yr
CesiumAstro	2	$52k–$66.6k/yr
Reflect Orbital	1	$56.2k–$64.5k/yr
Spire Global	2	$130k–$150k/yr
Voyager Technologies	3	$90k–$150k/yr
Northwood Space	2	$79k–$87.4k/yr
Booz Allen Hamilton	1	$86.8k–$198k/yr
Parsons	2	$74.8k–$196k/yr
Sierra Space	9	$80.4k–$286k/yr
Relativity Space	2	$55.7k–$97.3k/yr
Vast	5	$51k–$267k/yr
OHB	16	Not stated
The Aerospace Corporation	5	Not stated
Isar Aerospace	4	Not stated
Thales Alenia Space	4	Not stated
Airbus Defence and Space	3	Not stated
Axiom Space	3	Not stated
Astroscale	2	Not stated
Constellr	2	Not stated
ICEYE	2	Not stated
Kepler Communications	2	Not stated
Open Cosmos	2	Not stated
ArianeGroup	1	Not stated
European Space Agency (ESA)	1	Not stated
Eutelsat	1	Not stated
Star Catcher	1	Not stated
Synspective	1	Not stated
Telesat	1	Not stated
Venus Aerospace	1	Not stated
Starfish Space	1	$80k–$120k/yr
Redwire	1	Not stated
Katalyst Space Technologies	1	$75k–$150k/yr
SpaceX	59	$47.8k–$240k/yr
ispace	1	$58.2k/yr
AST SpaceMobile	6	Not stated
Lockheed Martin	23	$70.5k–$219k/yr
Vantor	2	$102k–$145k/yr
Terran Orbital	1	$110k–$130k/yr
AeroVironment (AV)	1	$123k–$187k/yr
United Launch Alliance	2	$132k–$264k/yr
Northrop Grumman	9	$83.4k–$266k/yr
Virgin Galactic	2	$135k–$202k/yr
Iridium	8	$60k–$150k/yr
Rocket Lab	17	$48k–$233k/yr
CACI	2	$71.5k–$218k/yr
Amentum	6	$80k–$100k/yr
Ursa Major	2	$62.4k/yr
Lunar Outpost	1	Not stated
Teledyne	3	Not stated
Astranis	2	$91k–$205k/yr

Sorted by the expected value of an application (acceptance odds times posted pay). A referral agreement, if an employer has one, can raise it in this order but never changes the salary it offers.

IT Professional salary by employer

What each employer's own postings pay IT professionals, by level and by site, with every role and its posted pay.

• SpaceX IT Professional salarymedian $125k/yr, 59 open roles
• Lockheed Martin IT Professional salarymedian $137k/yr, 23 open roles
• Amazon Leo IT Professional salarymedian $178k/yr, 10 open roles

How each employer checks you

For every employer currently hiring IT professionals: its process as its own hiring guide describes it, each line with its source. The complete steps sit on that employer's page. Sorted by the expected value of an application (acceptance odds times posted pay). A referral agreement, if an employer has one, can raise it in this order but never changes the salary it offers.

Amazon Leo10 open

Assessment

Amazon's interview loop. How to apply

Interview

Interview

Blue Origin3 open

Assessment

No general test published. How to apply

Interview

None published

Booz Allen Hamilton1 open

Assessment

Booz Allen's technical assessment and interviews. How to apply

Interview

Interview

Thales Alenia Space4 open

Assessment

Thales interviews. How to apply

Interview

Interview

Airbus Defence and Space3 open

Assessment

Airbus interviews and role tests. How to apply

Interview

Interview

European Space Agency (ESA)1 open

Assessment

ESA's pre-screening and panel interview. How to apply

Interview

Interview

Credentials

You complete a basic medical screening for the ESA Medical Officer and a basic background screening run by an external party; in a second stage ESA contacts your referees and verifies your diploma. Source

Lockheed Martin23 open

Assessment

Lockheed Martin's interviews. How to apply

Interview

Interview

Northrop Grumman9 open

Assessment

The recruiter screening and team interviews. How to apply

Interview

Interview

Where these roles are posted

The US states with the most open roles for IT professionals, and the roles posted for a single country. A place name leads to its own page, and a country's count lists the matching roles.

What our research measures about software & it work

Read from the open postings on 2026-10-30 by our space industry research, rebuilt every day. Every figure opens the row of the report it comes from.

• Who is hiring1,813 open roles (11.4% of the space roles we read) at 109 employers, 634 of them posted in the last 30 days.
• Where the jobs are2.2% of these roles are remote; the rest are on-site or hybrid.
• Who can apply63.1% of the postings are open only to US persons or US citizens, and 40.7% name a security clearance.
• Skills and toolsThe skills its postings name most: Python (53%), Linux (33%) and AWS, Azure or Google Cloud (31%).
• Degrees and experience3.2% of the postings take a high school diploma or an associate's degree, 16.9% name a master's or PhD, and they ask for a median of 4 years of experience at the least.
• Pay transparency66.4% of the postings state their pay, at a median $162,000 a year.
• Internships and entry level131 open roles are for someone starting out (7.2% of its open roles).
• Shifts, weekends and travel19.5% of the postings ask for weekend work, 21.6% for overtime or extended hours, and 0.4% name an evening, night or rotating shift.
• What applications askThe application forms for this work ask your citizenship or U.S. person status (82.0% of them), about a security clearance (54.2% of them), your GPA (37.1% of them), SAT, ACT or GRE scores (36.8% of them), your salary expectations (24.6% of them) and whether you have worked or interviewed at the company before (49.0% of them).