ClearMatch

    Where cleared jobs are.

    The Cleared Jobs Index compares each state’s share of cleared GovCon postings with its share of the US population. Above 1, a state has more cleared work than its size predicts. Below 1, less.

    Washington, DC has 28.4× the cleared postings its population predicts, followed by Virginia (8.7×) and Maryland (8.5×). 12 of 51 are above 1×; the lowest, Wisconsin, is at 0.01×.

    55,036 cleared postings · 867 remote · Updated October 22, 2026

    United States · 55,036 postings · select a state for its breakdown

    United States

    55,036 cleared postings across every state, DC and remote work.

    Cleared postings
    55,036
    Per 100k residents
    16

    Job families with the most cleared postings in United States.

    1. 1. Systems & Hardware22.3%
    2. 2. Software Engineer16.5%
    3. 3. Management9.2%
    4. 4. Technical (other)8.3%
    5. 5. IT Support7.0%
    6. 6. Trades6.7%
    7. 7. Cybersecurity6.6%
    8. 8. Intelligence3.6%
    9. 9. Supply Chain2.9%
    10. 10. Admin2.6%

    Top employers

    1. Northrop Grumman3,214
    2. Lockheed Martin2,801
    3. RTX (Raytheon / Collins / Pratt & Whitney)2,181
    4. Booz Allen Hamilton1,786
    5. Leidos1,436

    Top metros

    1. Washington DC metro19,213
    2. Los Angeles metro2,315
    3. Huntsville area2,019
    4. Denver metro1,468
    5. San Diego area1,453
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    Job families and clearance levels

    Share of the country's cleared postings. Select a family to see the clearance levels inside it.

    55,036 postings

    What each clearance level pays

    The typical posted salary range at each level: the median posted floor to the median posted ceiling, across every job family.

    Public Trust
    $100k–$140k · 1,019
    Secret
    $98k–$157k · 6,857
    Top Secret
    $118k–$173k · 2,342
    TS/SCI
    $115k–$174k · 2,265
    TS/SCI + CI Poly
    $130k–$191k · 1,603
    TS/SCI + Full Scope Poly
    $143k–$200k · 1,545

    From the 15,635 of 55,036 cleared postings that state an annual salary range; the number after each range is how many. Hourly rates are left out, and so is any level with fewer than 20 postings. Employers publish pay most often where the law requires it, such as California, Colorado, Maryland, New York and Washington, so treat these ranges as a guide, not an offer.

    What each job family asks for

    Nationwide, every square is 5% of a family’s cleared postings, shaded by the clearance the posting requires. Darker means a heavier investigation before day one.

    • Public Trust
    • Confidential
    • Secret
    • Top Secret
    • TS/SCI
    • TS/SCI + CI Poly
    • TS/SCI + Full Scope Poly

    Families with fewer than 20 postings are left out.

    What employers are asking for

    Nationwide, from the 58,841 postings requiring Secret or higher that we saw in the last 14 days, out of 123,945 postings across 1,245 employer career pages.

    Top skills

    Share of those postings that name the skill, matched by keyword against a list of 50 GovCon skills.

    1. 1. Python11,056 · 19%
    2. 2. AWS7,700 · 13%
    3. 3. C++5,360 · 9%
    4. 4. Kubernetes3,851 · 7%
    5. 5. Docker3,804 · 6%
    6. 6. Azure3,404 · 6%
    7. 7. Machine Learning3,083 · 5%
    8. 8. Cisco2,619 · 4%
    9. 9. RMF2,413 · 4%
    10. 10. Ansible2,324 · 4%

    Top job titles

    Seniority and level merged, so “Sr. Systems Engineer II” counts as Systems Engineer.

    1. 1. Software Engineer1,385
    2. 2. Systems Engineer1,355
    3. 3. Program Manager538
    4. 4. Systems Administrator501
    5. 5. Network Engineer451
    6. 6. Engineer382
    7. 7. Data Scientist368
    8. 8. Software Developer302
    9. 9. Electrical Engineer266
    10. 10. Information Systems Security Officer251

    Public Trust

    4,799 postings in the last 14 days named a Public Trust requirement. It’s a suitability determination for civilian agency work, not a clearance, and many eligible roles never say so in the posting, so the real number is higher.

    1. 1. Guidehouse271
    2. 2. Leidos262
    3. 3. Amentum238
    4. 4. SAIC212
    5. 5. Peraton208

    Every state, side by side

    Sort by any column. Select a state to open it above.

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    128.39×3,12145025.4%6.5%Software Engineer
    28.70×12,24013845.3%24.0%Software Engineer
    38.46×8,39613462.5%47.1%Software Engineer
    42.97×2,445478.3%2.5%Systems & Hardware
    52.96×2,8194734.1%12.8%Systems & Hardware
    62.63×5984235.3%12.7%IT Support
    71.67×939278.2%3.7%Systems & Hardware
    81.57×1,778255.6%0.7%Systems & Hardware
    91.57×5282523.1%4.4%Systems & Hardware
    101.53×270240.0%0.0%Systems & Hardware
    111.47×329231.2%0.0%Systems & Hardware
    121.21×1411911.3%5.0%Trades
    130.99×1,193168.7%0.7%Systems & Hardware
    140.91×5,6571410.4%0.7%Systems & Hardware
    150.75×2,7771226.0%4.5%Systems & Hardware
    160.71×1,3441129.9%2.2%Systems & Hardware
    170.66×5821013.7%0.5%IT Support
    180.56×3688.95.2%0.3%Systems & Hardware
    190.54×1728.545.3%5.2%Technical (other)
    200.47×2467.511.4%0.8%Trades
    210.44×4377.029.5%5.7%Systems & Hardware
    220.43×4756.85.3%0.0%Systems & Hardware
    230.41×2416.53.7%0.0%Systems & Hardware
    240.41×1156.51.7%0.9%Systems & Hardware
    250.39×6936.224.4%0.7%Trades
    260.39×4896.117.8%7.6%Systems & Hardware
    270.38×1,9076.014.2%4.3%Systems & Hardware
    280.36×6505.822.2%6.8%Systems & Hardware
    290.34×1575.32.5%0.6%Trades
    300.33×1715.30.6%0.0%Systems & Hardware
    310.32×415.17.3%0.0%Trades
    320.31×1015.02.0%0.0%Trades
    330.28×5764.412.7%3.0%Systems & Hardware
    340.26×3944.13.6%0.5%Systems & Hardware
    350.23×1153.70.0%0.0%Systems & Hardware
    360.22×4533.64.4%0.0%Systems & Hardware
    370.21×203.40.0%0.0%Trades
    380.21×213.39.5%0.0%Systems & Hardware
    390.19×2213.03.2%0.0%Systems & Hardware
    400.17×252.74.0%0.0%IT Support
    410.14×1052.33.8%1.0%Trades
    420.14×312.23.2%0.0%Systems & Hardware
    430.13×1162.00.9%0.0%Systems & Hardware
    440.12×221.90.0%0.0%IT Support
    450.11×831.812.0%2.4%Trades
    460.11×3471.78.9%0.9%Systems & Hardware
    470.09×441.50.0%0.0%IT Support
    480.08×1251.210.4%0.8%Software Engineer
    490.06×100.920.0%20.0%Systems & Hardware
    500.04×270.67.4%0.0%IT Support
    510.01×140.20.0%0.0%Trades

    Per 100k is cleared postings per 100,000 residents. TS/SCI+ and Polygraph are the share of a state’s postings that require them; they’re greyed out where a state has fewer than 50 postings, since a handful of jobs can swing them.

    Quick answers

    Which state has the most security clearance jobs?
    Virginia, with 12,240 cleared postings as of October 22, 2026: 23% of all cleared postings with a duty station.
    Which state has the most cleared jobs for its population?
    Washington, DC. Its Cleared Jobs Index is 28.39, so it has 28.4× the cleared postings its share of US residents predicts, about 450 for every 100,000 people.
    Where do cleared jobs require the highest clearances?
    Maryland. 63% of its cleared postings require TS/SCI or higher and 47% require a polygraph, the highest TS/SCI share of any state with at least 500 postings.
    What skills do cleared jobs ask for most?
    Python, AWS and C++. Python appears in 19% of the 58,841 postings requiring Secret or higher in the last 14 days.
    How many cleared jobs are fully remote?
    867 postings, 2% of the total, list no duty station. Most cleared work is on site, because classified work happens in cleared facilities.

    How the index is built

    Every night ClearMatch reads the career pages of the GovCon employers it tracks and counts the active postings that state a security clearance or Public Trust requirement. That is a large slice of the cleared market, not all of it: federal agency postings and employers we don’t track are outside the count, and postings our classifier hasn’t read yet are left out rather than guessed. Each posting counts once, in the state its location resolves to; a location we can’t place is left out. Remote postings with no duty station are counted apart and aren’t part of any state’s index. Population is the US Census Bureau’s July 1, 2025 estimate.

    The trend compares each employer’s cleared postings with its own count the day before, so employers we start tracking don’t read as growth. Skills and job titles come from the postings requiring Secret or higher that we saw in the last 14 days.

    To cite it: ClearMatch Cleared Jobs Index, getclearmatch.com/cleared-jobs-index, with the date you read it. The full table is at /cleared-jobs-index/data.csv.