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Space Jobs for IT Professionals
, SpaceJobs.Now lists 275 open roles for IT professionals on 69 space industry employers, including Muon Space, Anduril and Amazon Leo; typical pay across them is $103k to $218k a year (median $130k), topped by $286k a year advertised at Sierra Space.
2nd Line IT Support Engineer (opens the job details)
Open Cosmos · Software & IT · Didcot, United Kingdom; Pallini +4 more· 11mo agoDetails
Measured from 141 distinct posted rates, across 46 employers, each as a year's pay (an hourly rate × 2,080 hours). 119 of the 275 listings open here post no pay at all.
Space companies hire IT professionals to keep their engineers, factories and launch sites running, often on systems that hold export-controlled or classified data. Each listing here is re-verified on the employer's own job board once an hour.
Live roles for IT professionals
Updated 31 Oct 2026, 19:02 UTCListed here: Open Cosmos roles. See every employer
IT support and help desk
1 openKeep engineers, factories and launch sites working: devices, accounts and the help desk.
2nd Line IT Support Engineer (opens the job details)
Open Cosmos · Software & IT · Didcot, United Kingdom; Pallini +4 more· 11mo agoDetails
Before you apply
Space hardware is built, tested and flown in person, so many roles name a factory, a test site, a launch site or a control room, and each listing states its location. US roles that touch export-controlled technology (ITAR or EAR) can ask that you be a U.S. person, and some ask for a security clearance. A real employer never charges you to apply, never interviews you only by chat app and never asks you to buy equipment.
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 162 out of 275 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 experience121
- Name a security clearance30
- Name u.S. person status (ITAR or EAR)25
- Ask for a certification22
- Name an IT certification (Security+, CompTIA, ITIL, Microsoft)16
- Set a residency or work-authorization condition10
- 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
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.
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.
- Assessment
- Amazon's interview loop. How to apply
- Interview
- Interview
- Assessment
- No general test published. How to apply
- Interview
- None published
- Assessment
- Booz Allen's technical assessment and interviews. How to apply
- Interview
- Interview
- Assessment
- Thales interviews. How to apply
- Interview
- Interview
- Assessment
- Airbus interviews and role tests. How to apply
- Interview
- Interview
- 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
- Assessment
- Lockheed Martin's interviews. How to apply
- Interview
- Interview
- 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.
Students and recent graduates: 9 open space internships for IT professionals.
In the US, by state
Space industry jobs by US state
In the US, by metro area
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 apply62.9% 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 (52%), 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 travel19.4% 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).
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Frequently asked questions
How much do IT professionals earn in the space industry?
Going by the 141 distinct salaries currently posted for roles for IT professionals (each put on a full-time year), the typical range is $103k–$218k/yr and the median is $130k/yr. The top posted figure is $286k/yr, at Sierra Space. 119 of the 275 open roles for IT professionals state no pay, so check each listing.
What do space IT roles ask for?
Usually years of IT support or administration and, for roles on government programs, a certification such as Security+ to meet DoD rules, and sometimes a security clearance. Every posting spells out its exact requirements and work site, so read each one. Of the 162 open roles for IT professionals whose requirements we read, 4 a master's, 82 at least a bachelor's and 76 name no degree.
What does an IT professional do at a space company?
An IT professional at a space company supports the people and systems the work runs on: devices and the help desk, servers, networks and identity, and the enterprise systems (ERP, SAP, PLM) that track every part. Roles on government programs run IT inside classified or ITAR-controlled environments.
How do space companies hire IT professionals?
Each employer runs its own hiring, and each listing says what it asks for: the degree or the hands-on experience, the location, and for export-controlled work in the US, often U.S. person status. Of the employers hiring IT professionals now, European Space Agency (ESA) says it checks credentials such as degrees. The section on how each employer checks you quotes each guide with its source.
Are these jobs real?
Every role here is read from a space employer's own careers page or job board (Muon Space, Anduril, Amazon Leo and True Anomaly among them), and each employer's page here covers who they are and how they hire. A real employer never charges you to apply, never asks you to buy equipment and never interviews you only by chat app.
Which space companies pay IT professionals the most?
Of the 3 employers whose postings for IT professionals state enough pay for a figure, the highest medians are Amazon Leo ($178k/yr), Lockheed Martin ($137k/yr) and SpaceX ($125k/yr). A median is of what each employer's open roles post today, by the same formula for every employer.
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