Issue 06

Secret holds at 50.8% of the Cleared market (18,225 roles) — the commodity tier. Above it, 34.9% of Cleared roles sit at TS/SCI or higher: TS/SCI proper at 18.1% (6,505), TS/SCI + Full Scope Poly at 12.6% (4,520), TS/SCI + CI Poly at 4.2% (1,502). The CI Poly count is the mover, up 25% from 1,197 last issue — read some of that as coverage, since several of the new Maryland-orbit services shops live at that tier. Full Scope Poly's share eased from 13.4% even as its count grew: this fortnight's additions skew less poly-heavy than the last batch, so the denominator outran the top of the stack.

Northrop Grumman is the #1 Cleared employer this issue — 3,105 roles against Lockheed Martin's 2,804 — the first change at the top since the memo began. RTX holds #3 at 2,402. The leaders have been read at full depth on a stable basis for three issues now, so this is movement, not measurement: Northrop added 408 Cleared postings on top of last fortnight's 640, roughly 1,050 over four weeks, while Lockheed eased from 3,046 to 2,804, its second straight decline.

Below the top three: Booz Allen holds #4 (1,654), Amentum #5 (1,472), CACI #6 (1,271). Leidos (#7, 1,145) edges past Peraton (#8, 1,101), GDIT holds #9 (841), and BAE Systems (669) takes the #10 seat from KBR. The top 10 hold 45.9% of Cleared demand, down from ~51% — the same dilution as last issue, with 72 new sources growing the denominator.

First fortnight-over-fortnight read of the titles table, and it opens with a flip: Systems Engineer (899 Cleared roles) passes Software Engineer (831) for #1, reversing last issue's order. Program Manager (346) moves past Systems Administrator (319) into #3, and Network Engineer climbs to 315 from 274 — the specialties are outpacing the generalist admin seats. Data Scientist reads 240, and Information System Security Officer keeps its place in the top ten at 121.

DC Metro reads 37.7% (11,060 roles), up from 34.1% — the scan keeps adding Beltway-orbit sources, and the number follows. The mid-table has a photo finish: Los Angeles Metro at 3.9% (1,146) noses past Huntsville at 3.8% (1,113), reversing last issue's order — SoCal aerospace plus the new autonomy entrants against Redstone missile defense. Behind them: Massachusetts at 2.9% (840), Tucson at 2.2% (650), Colorado Springs at 1.9% (568), and Tampa and Overseas at 1.7% each (504 and 484). The 39.1% "Other" is the plant-site geography of the primes — Fort Worth, Marietta, Melbourne, Orlando.

Python leads again by a wide margin (6,380 Cleared roles), wanted at every clearance tier. AWS holds #2 (4,632), C++ #3 (3,014) — still the defense-industrial tell — with Docker (2,435) and Kubernetes (2,398) closing the five. Second consecutive fortnight with no rank movement, and the Docker–Kubernetes gap is down to 37 roles. Every count rose roughly in step with coverage; the mix has stabilized.

Public Trust reads 2,864 roles, up 22% from 2,345 — and only part of that is the market. The scan got materially better this fortnight at recognizing suitability-tier language in postings, and SAIC's arrival adds a new top-five source (133 roles, debuting at #5). Amentum holds #1 at 254, Contact Government Services sits at 239, and Leidos jumps to #3 at 212 from 159, passing Guidehouse (175). One asterisk on the table: Contact Government Services' 239 is an evergreen catalog — 36 distinct roles, each cloned across roughly ten locations, 98% of them posted more than 90 days ago, one new posting in the last month. Amentum's lead, by contrast, churns: over a third of its Public Trust postings are new inside 30 days. The remote gap is worth a number this issue: 9.3% of Public Trust postings are remote-eligible against 1.6% of Cleared ones. The SCIF dependency, quantified.