How to Find Fully Remote IT Jobs in 2025: The Best Sources
Identify where to find fully remote IT jobs, including job boards and search techniques, while managing expectations around scams and salary.
What was corrected
A 2024 LinkedIn Workforce Report found that while remote job postings across all industries declined from a pandemic peak of 20 percent to about 10 percent, technology roles remained an outlier: 38 percent of IT job postings still offered remote or hybrid arrangements. Within that number, approximately 15 percent were fully remote with no in-office requirement. | A 2024 Gartner survey of 500 HR leaders found that technology and IT roles had the second-highest remote work eligibility after creative and design roles, with 62 percent of IT positions considered feasible for fully remote execution. | "We have 2,000 employees across 67 countries and zero offices..." - Sid Sijbrandij, co-founder and CEO of GitLab | A 2024 FBI Internet Crime Report identified unverified remote job postings as one of the fastest-growing categories of online fraud, with losses exceeding $500 million. | A 2024 Glassdoor analysis found that fully remote IT roles paid approximately 5-10 percent less than equivalent in-office roles in major tech hubs, but 10-20 percent more than equivalent roles in mid-size and smaller cities. | Matt Mullenweg, co-founder of WordPress and CEO of Automattic, has spoken extensively about how Automattic evaluates remote candidates. | Darren Murph, head of remote at GitLab and widely recognized as a leading authority on remote work practices, has emphasized that remote workers who treat visibility as their responsibility advance at the same rate as in-office peers.
While remote job postings across all industries have declined significantly from the pandemic peak, technology roles have remained a notable outlier, continuing to offer remote or hybrid arrangements at a much higher rate than the overall job market, with a meaningful share of IT postings being fully remote with no in-office requirement. (removed unverified LinkedIn Workforce Report name and unverified 20%/10%/38%/15% figures) | Technology and IT roles are generally considered to have among the highest remote work eligibility of any job category, with a large share of IT positions feasible for fully remote execution. (removed unverified Gartner survey of '500 HR leaders' and unverified 62% figure) | De-attributed quote to plain prose: "GitLab operates with roughly 2,000 employees across more than 65 countries and zero offices, and has run as a fully remote company since its founding in 2014..." (removed unverified direct quote attributed to Sid Sijbrandij by name; kept the headcount/country figures which were checked and found roughly consistent with GitLab's real scale) | "The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center has identified unverified remote job postings as one of the fastest-growing categories of online fraud, with reported losses continuing to climb." (removed unverified $500 million figure, kept the real underlying trend) | "Fully remote IT roles often pay somewhat less than equivalent in-office roles in major tech hubs, but tend to pay more than equivalent roles in mid-size and smaller cities." (removed unverified Glassdoor stat and unverified 5-10%/10-20% figures) | "Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, is well known for how it evaluates remote candidates." (removed vague unverifiable 'has spoken extensively' attribution to Matt Mullenweg by name) | "Remote work authorities generally emphasize that remote workers who treat visibility as their own responsibility tend to advance at the same rate as in-office peers..." (de-attributed from Darren Murph by name, no locatable source for the specific claim)
Suggested change
De-attributed 2 fabricated named quotes (1 partially accurate on scale, kept that detail) and softened 4 fabricated-precision statistics (LinkedIn, Gartner, FBI, Glassdoor reports) to qualitative statements.
Why this is better
Removed unverified LinkedIn Workforce Report and Gartner survey statistics, de-attributed an unverified direct quote to GitLab's CEO (while keeping GitLab's real verified scale figures), softened an unverified FBI dollar-loss figure while keeping the real fraud-trend point, softened an unverified Glassdoor compensation stat, and removed two unverifiable named attributions (Matt Mullenweg, Darren Murph) in favor of general framing.