Information security analysts job market in Indiana

Industry trends, wages and hiring signals.

The headline

Indiana industry employment changed 0.7 percentage points above the U.S. benchmark

A data-driven view of the industries that employ Information security analysts in Indiana.

Verified QCEW 2026 Q1January to March 2026 · State coverage 86.17% · BLS QCEWCitationEvidence record

Occupation pay

What Information security analysts earn in Indiana

BLS OEWS occupation-level pay estimates for this role — separate from the industry wage trends used elsewhere in this report.

BLS OEWS source

Median annual wage

$101,420Indiana
Middle 50% of published wages
$72,220 – $128,960
U.S. median annual wage
$129,180
Reference period
May 2025

The middle 50% is the 25th-to-75th percentile wage range, not an experience-level band. Suppressed or unavailable BLS values remain unpublished rather than being estimated.

Pay around Indiana

How median pay varies by metro area

Published BLS OEWS metro estimates for Information security analysts, compared with the Indiana median of $101,420.

Indiana median$101,420
Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN$125,310+23.6% vs. state
Middle 50%$99,760 – $158,210Published employment3,480
Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN$114,300+12.7% vs. state
Middle 50%$82,600 – $139,670Published employment1,320
Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN$106,760+5.3% vs. state
Middle 50%$84,030 – $135,790Published employment650
Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN$101,390Same as state at displayed precision
Middle 50%$60,450 – $159,310Published employmentNot published
Evansville, IN$98,400−3.0% vs. state
Middle 50%$60,340 – $137,790Published employment110
Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN$98,060−3.3% vs. state
Middle 50%$72,800 – $128,850Published employment980
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Fort Wayne, IN$97,000−4.4% vs. state
Middle 50%$75,020 – $122,100Published employment130
Elkhart-Goshen, IN$95,960−5.4% vs. state
Middle 50%$68,100 – $138,230Published employment60
Columbus, IN$94,770−6.6% vs. state
Middle 50%$88,560 – $156,210Published employment40
South Bend-Mishawaka, IN-MI$85,070−16.1% vs. state
Middle 50%$62,620 – $129,530Published employment70

Areas are ordered by published median wage for readability, not as an overall job-market ranking. The vertical marker is the Indiana median. Some BLS metropolitan areas cross state lines, so a metro estimate can cover workers in more than one state.

Verified snapshot

Market at a Glance

Key changes in Indiana’s weighted industry mix.

+0.6%Industry employmentIndiana industry employmentU.S. -0.2%vs. -0.2% U.S.
+0.9%Establishments in weighted industriesIndiana establishments in weighted industriesU.S. +2.6%vs. +2.6% U.S.
+4.7%Avg. weekly industry wageIndiana avg. weekly industry wageU.S. +4.4% · not occupation payvs. +4.4% U.S. · not occupation pay
+0.7 ppGap vs. U.S. industry employmentState minus U.S. industry employment change

Percentage-point gaps use the original published values and are rounded once; subtracting the rounded percentages can give a slightly different result.

Published coverage: 65,577 represented establishments, 80.92% of the published industry mix.

Local research

What the data shows for information security analysts in Indiana

Findings describe the published observation periods shown below. Research published Oct 10, 2026.

This occupation is less concentrated in the state

OEWS May 2025 places Indiana's share of employment in information security analysts at 0.58 times the corresponding national share. The published location quotient expresses that comparison. The state estimate is 2,260 jobs, 1.2% of the national employment estimate for this occupation. It represents 0.71 jobs per thousand jobs in the state's OEWS employment universe. Employment concentration does not establish future growth; it describes employment share, not current hiring.

OEWS May 2025 · BLS OEWS

OEWS employment estimates describe covered wage-and-salary jobs and exclude self-employed workers; location quotients do not measure vacancies or worker demand.

Professional and business services has the largest positive weighted contribution

Among the leading industry groups associated with this occupation in Indiana, Professional and business services has the largest positive weighted contribution in January to March 2026. It accounts for 95.6% of the positive weighted contributions, and its own employment changed +1.1% year over year. The proxy uses each group's share of the occupation's national industry mix; the groups examined cover 82.3% of that mix. Weighted contributions do not count occupation jobs created.

January to March 2026 · BLS QCEW

Published median pay is below the U.S. median

Indiana's published median annual wage for information security analysts is 21.5% below the national median in OEWS May 2025. The state estimate is $101,420, compared with $129,180 across the U.S. These medians are not adjusted for living costs and do not describe every worker.

OEWS May 2025 · BLS OEWS

Pay differs widely between metro areas

South Bend-Mishawaka, IN-MI and Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN define the low and high ends of this published median-pay comparison for Indiana. Their estimates are $85,070 and $101,390, respectively, in OEWS May 2025; the high end is 19.2% higher. The comparison includes 7 metro areas on the same wage basis and does not measure living costs or job availability.

OEWS May 2025 · BLS OEWS

Metro estimates may include areas in neighboring states. The comparison covers published metro estimates, not every part of the state.

Industry measures describe the industries associated with this occupation. They are not direct occupation employment, current openings or a state-level Job Market Health score. Findings describe published data and do not establish causes. Methodology

Employment trends

Year-over-year change in the weighted industries. The U.S. line is the latest-quarter benchmark because a comparable national quarterly history is not published here.

Latest published values
  • Indiana · 2026 Q1+0.6%
  • U.S. · latest-quarter benchmark-0.2%

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Quarterly Indiana industry employment changes and coverage
QuarterIndianaCoverage
2024 Q2-0.9%100%
2024 Q3-0.9%100%
2024 Q4-0.1%100%
2025 Q1-0.3%90.33%
2025 Q2-0.1%100%
2025 Q3+0.4%100%
2025 Q4+0.7%100%
2026 Q1+0.6%86.17%

How to read this chart

State trend and national reference

The solid line follows Indiana’s published year-over-year industry employment changes by quarter. The dashed U.S. line is a latest-quarter reference, not a second time series.

Published quarters
8
Earliest quarter
2024 Q2
Latest quarter
2026 Q1
U.S. benchmark
-0.2%

Quarters with no published value are omitted rather than interpolated.

Industry context

Where Information security analysts Work

The occupation mix determines which Indiana industries are weighted into this view.

Industries weighted into the Indiana Information security analysts context
Industry groupOccupation mixEmployment changeEstablishmentsAvg. weekly industry wage
Professional and business services54.5%+1.1%41,649$1,567
Financial activities17.0%-0.6%20,482$2,142
Information9.3%Not published3,446$1,839
Private education and health services5.6%+0.5%21,662$1,250
Manufacturing5.1%-0.8%9,510$1,919
Trade, transportation, and utilities4.1%Not published43,609$1,163

Which industries are growing?

2 weighted industries are growing

Only weighted industries with a published positive Indiana employment change are listed.

  • Professional and business services+1.1%
  • Private education and health services+0.5%

The remaining weighted industries published a flat or negative change in January to March 2026.

Selected state comparison

Indiana vs. other states

A selected set of other states with valid reports for this occupation, not every available state. Each state’s own published industry employment change for QCEW 2026 Q1, ordered with this report first and then alphabetically. This is not a ranking and there is no state-level score.

Open state comparison

How to read this

Same occupation, same release

Every state shown published its own verified QCEW 2026 Q1 figure for the industries weighted to Information security analysts. Bars are proportional to each published change; left of centre is a decline.

Current Indiana context

Current Indiana Market Signals

Statewide indicators for all occupations in Indiana. They are not Information security analysts demand and are not part of the Job Market Health score.

Statewide job postings

Indeed job postings · Indiana

Recent hiring-demand context · separate from the health score

96.0Postings index · February 1, 2020 = 100Observation: Oct 23, 2026
-4.0%Versus the February 2020 baseline
+0.2%Change over about four weeksSep 25, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026

Total postings index (seasonally adjusted) by observation date · baseline 100

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View values: Indeed postings index
Indeed postings index
Observation dateIndex (Feb 2020 = 100)
Jul 24, 202694.78
Jul 31, 202694.73
Aug 7, 202694.02
Aug 14, 202693.66
Aug 21, 202693.42
Aug 28, 202694.23
Sep 4, 202694.81
Sep 11, 202695.62
Sep 18, 202696.02
Sep 25, 202695.84
Oct 2, 202695.34
Oct 9, 202696.05
Oct 16, 202695.43
Oct 23, 202695.99

This is statewide demand across all occupations, not demand for this specific job. Postings are not a count of vacancies or hires, and Indeed does not cover the entire labor market.

Source: Indeed Hiring Lab · CC BY 4.0. Seven-day average, seasonally adjusted; publisher refreshes weekly and may revise history. Retrieved Oct 30, 2026 · saved source copy. JobMarketHealth calculates the displayed changes and samples weekly observations for the chart.

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Statewide layoff notices

Statewide layoff-notice filings

Indiana statewide

7 notices in this source

Notice dates from Aug 4, 2026 to Nov 1, 2026 (UTC), a rolling 90-calendar-day period.

What this means: These are statewide totals from notices dated in this period in Indiana’s official tracking system. Reported positions are the counts published in those notices, not a count of people confirmed to have lost their jobs. No employer is identified.

Notices describe planned workforce changes, not confirmed job losses. Notices may be amended or withdrawn. This statewide context is not occupation-specific and does not affect the Job Market Health score. Indiana’s state tracking system also records smaller Rapid Response events that fall below federal WARN thresholds, so it is not a list of federal WARN filings only.

Indiana Department of Workforce Development About WARN data

Source last checked

Career context

Related roles from the occupation’s published O*NET profile.

Questions answered by this release

Information security analysts in Indiana FAQs

Each answer is limited to what QCEW 2026 Q1 actually publishes for this state.

Is employment growing for Information security analysts in Indiana?

The available QCEW measure is not direct occupation employment. Employment across the Indiana industries weighted to Information security analysts changed +0.6% year over year in January to March 2026, compared with -0.2% nationwide.

Are wages for Information security analysts rising in Indiana?

QCEW does not publish pay for Information security analysts in this view. Average weekly wages across the weighted industries changed +4.7% year over year; that must not be read as an occupation salary change.

How complete is this Indiana industry view?

The three core state trends each meet the site’s coverage floor; the minimum published coverage is 86.17% of the occupation’s industry mix.

Does this page show current Information security analysts openings?

No. QCEW measures industry employment, establishments and wages. Any postings, news or WARN figures shown here are statewide context and are not occupation-specific openings.

Methodology & sourcesQCEW 2026 Q1 · coverage 86.17% · full evidence record

Methodology & Sources

Derived by JobMarketHealth from BLS QCEW + published occupation industry mix. This is occupation-weighted industry context, not direct occupation employment and not a count of current job openings.

Occupation
Information security analysts
SOC code
15-1212
State
Indiana
QCEW release label
QCEW 2026 Q1
Data period
2026 Q1
State industry employment, year over year
+0.6%State data coverage 86.17%
U.S. benchmark, year over year
-0.2%
Difference from U.S. benchmark
+0.7 percentage pointsPercentage-point gaps use the original published values and are rounded once; subtracting the rounded percentages can give a slightly different result.
Establishments, year over year
+0.9%State data coverage 86.17%
Average weekly industry wage, year over year
+4.7%State data coverage 90.33%
Industry mix vintage
EP-2025-2035
BLS publication date
Aug 28, 2026
Source verification
Verified against the committed source snapshotVerified Sep 17, 2026
Canonical record URL
https://jobmarkethealth.com/occupations/information-security-analysts/indiana#evidence-record
Derived by
JobMarketHealth from BLS QCEW + published occupation industry mix

Weighted industry conditions are not direct occupation employment, occupation wages, current openings or a state-level Job Market Health score. No causal explanation is inferred.

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