U.S. Federal Civil Position Postings from 2017 to 2026

683.1 MB of data on U.S. federal civil position postings, covering a period from 2017 to 2026. The dataset includes a Jupyter Notebook and was authored by William Resh. It was last updated on the figshare platform in May 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze hiring trends and seasonality in the U.S. federal government based on the described position postings.
• Model the evolution of job requirements and qualifications over the 2017-2026 period.
• Benchmark federal agency hiring activity and identify potential skill gaps in the civil service.

Strengths

• Data covers a 10-year period from 2017 to 2026, providing a long-term view.
• Includes a Jupyter Notebook, which likely contains analysis or processing code.
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for reuse.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

figshare

Time Range

2017-2026

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-09 20:19:48; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United States