The live record of who America’s governments are hiring.
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Across the last twelve months of federal hiring through Jul 2026, 53.4% of General Schedule hires came in at GS-7 or below and just 14.6% at GS-13 or above. The most common advertised entry grade across live postings — including ours — is GS-15. The listings and the hiring point in opposite directions, and that gap is the single most useful thing a first-time applicant can know.
Hires: OPM Federal Workforce Data, 77,879 General Schedule accessions over the trailing twelve months to Jul 2026. Advertised: 10,216 live postings carrying a grade, from the Ayla job graph. Both series are shown as a share of their own total so they sit on one scale.
Source: OPM Federal Workforce Data. Since January 2025: 215,047 hires against 484,111 separations, 140,470 of them deferred resignations — a net contraction of 269,064.
| Leidos | 6,519open roles |
| Booz Allen Hamilton | 5,399open roles |
| RTX (Raytheon) | 5,141open roles |
| General Dynamics IT | 4,179open roles |
| Northrop Grumman | 3,955open roles |
| DXC Technology | 3,641open roles |
| Amentum | 2,878open roles |
| SpaceX | 2,430open roles |
Every tracked GovCon prime, ranked by open roles, with month-over-month movement and the series each is hiring into. Sent as a monthly brief.
| Government contractors | 79,312 |
| State government | 60,828 |
| Federal agencies | 20,197 |
| Cities | 5,666 |
| Counties | 1,744 |
| Median advertised salaryAcross all tracked roles | $93,600 |
| Open roles at contractorsGovCon & defense-tech | 79,312 |
| Live job sourcesFederal, state, local, GovCon | 640+ |
These are the occupations the federal government fills at volume that barely register on any job board, ours included. The ratio compares a year of actual hires against postings live right now — it is a measure of how thinly a lane is advertised, not of an individual applicant’s chances.
| Occupation | Hires, 12 mo | Advertised now | Per posting |
|---|---|---|---|
| Customs and Border ProtectionSeries 1895 | 2,415 | 8 | 302× |
| Biological Science TechnicianSeries 0404 | 1,622 | 8 | 203× |
| Contact RepresentativeSeries 0962 | 2,649 | 15 | 177× |
| Criminal InvestigationSeries 1811 | 4,778 | 43 | 111× |
| Forestry TechnicianSeries 0462 | 2,136 | 21 | 102× |
| Border Patrol Enforcement SeriesSeries 1896 | 3,929 | 42 | 94× |
| Park RangerSeries 0025 | 2,101 | 24 | 88× |
| General Inspection, Investigation, Enforcement, and Compliance SeriesSeries 1801 | 8,915 | 103 | 87× |
Hires: OPM Federal Workforce Data, twelve months to Jul 2026. Postings: live federal listings carrying an occupational series in the Ayla job graph. Series with fewer than 1,500 hires are excluded.
Ranked by OPM Federal Workforce Data hires over the trailing twelve months to Jul 2026 — not by how many listings happen to be live, which is a measure of what gets advertised rather than what gets filled.
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Every number on this page comes out of the same government hiring record that Ayla Sourcing runs on — the console public-sector recruiters use to search the market and open a candidate’s contact details.