Government and defense hiring is the most active it's been in years — 120,303 open roles across the public sector, 41,635 of them at contractors, and defense-tech scaling at the pace of the legacy primes. If you're cleared or government-experienced, you have more leverage than you've had in a decade.
2026 has been a year of mobility inside the federal workforce: 67,973 hires and 73,904 separations so far, including 2,266 deferred-resignation departures. The takeaway for hiring teams isn't decline — it's that a large pool of cleared, mission-experienced professionals is in motion and open to the right conversation, right now.
| Sector | Open roles |
|---|---|
| State government | 55,216 |
| Government contractors | 41,635 |
| Federal agencies | 13,562 |
| Cities | 6,616 |
| Counties | 1,767 |
| State | Open roles |
|---|---|
| Virginia | 42,306 |
| California | 10,693 |
| Texas | 7,157 |
| New York | 4,168 |
| Pennsylvania | 4,072 |
| # | Contractor | Open roles |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Accenture Federal | 5,384 |
| 2 | RTX (Raytheon) | 4,063 |
| 3 | Booz Allen Hamilton | 3,806 |
| 4 | Leidos | 3,642 |
| 5 | Northrop Grumman | 2,895 |
| 6 | Amentum | 2,857 |
| 7 | Anduril Industries | 2,667 |
| 8 | Peraton | 2,147 |
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