The Staff Selection Commission has published the tentative vacancy position for the Junior Engineer Examination, 2026 — 1,699 posts across 15 central departments, in a department-wise table uploaded on 8 October 2026. With the computer-based examination beginning 2 November 2026, this table is the single most useful document for deciding your post preference order.
Category totals: UR 718, OBC 462, SC 245, ST 140, EWS 134, with 60 horizontal PwBD vacancies (32 OH, 14 HH, 1 VH, 13 others).
Department-wise vacancy table
| Department | Post | SC | ST | OBC | EWS | UR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Central Public Works Department | JE (Civil) | 51 | 25 | 92 | 34 | 141 | 343 |
| Border Roads Organization (male only) | JE (Civil) | 39 | 20 | 118 | 9 | 85 | 271 |
| Military Engineer Service | JE (E&M) | 16 | 26 | 38 | 11 | 70 | 161 |
| Military Engineer Service | JE (Civil) | 19 | 32 | 33 | 9 | 61 | 154 |
| Central Public Works Department | JE (Electrical) | 15 | 7 | 27 | 10 | 44 | 103 |
| Department of Telecommunication | JE (Telecom) | 10 | 5 | 18 | 6 | 30 | 69 |
| Brahmaputra Board, Ministry of Jal Shakti | JE (Civil) | 8 | 5 | 18 | 4 | 21 | 56 |
| Central Water Commission | JE (Civil) | 4 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 12 | 29 |
| Border Roads Organization (male only) | JE (E&M) | 1 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 10 | 22 |
| Dte. General of Light Houses & Lightships | JE (Civil) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 7 |
| DGQA-Naval, Ministry of Defence | JE (Mech) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| Central Water Commission | JE (Mech) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| CICEF, Ministry of Fisheries | JE (Civil) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| CWPRS, Ministry of Jal Shakti | JE (Civil) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Farakka Barrage Project, Ministry of Jal Shakti | JE (Civil) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| DGQA-Naval, Ministry of Defence | JE (Elec) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Dte. General of Light Houses & Lightships | JE (Elec) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| CWPRS, Ministry of Jal Shakti | JE (Elec) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| CWPRS, Ministry of Jal Shakti | JE (Mech) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| India Meteorological Department | Scientific Assistant | 76 | 11 | 99 | 45 | 231 | 462 |
| Total | — | 245 | 140 | 462 | 134 | 718 | 1,699 |
Discipline-wise totals the table does not give you
The official PDF lists departments, not disciplines. Rolled up by discipline, the 1,699 vacancies split like this:
| Discipline | Vacancies | Share |
|---|---|---|
| JE (Civil) | 867 | 51% |
| Scientific Assistant (IMD) | 462 | 27% |
| JE (Electrical & Mechanical) | 183 | 11% |
| JE (Electrical) | 108 | 6% |
| JE (Telecommunication) | 69 | 4% |
| JE (Mechanical) | 10 | under 1% |
Three observations that matter for preference-filling:
- Civil dominates completely. 867 of 1,699 posts — more than half — are JE (Civil), and the two biggest employers are CPWD (343) and BRO (271). Note that both BRO lines are for male candidates only, which removes 293 posts from the pool for female candidates.
- Mechanical is nearly nonexistent. Just 10 pure JE (Mechanical) posts across CWC, CWPRS and DGQA-Naval. Mechanical-stream candidates realistically compete for the 183 combined E&M posts in MES and BRO.
- The single largest line item is not a JE post at all — it is the India Meteorological Department's 462 Scientific Assistant vacancies, which sit in this examination cycle with a separate paper (CS/IT, Electronics, Physics streams).
Exam dates for these posts
Per the Commission's corrigendum of 26 October, General Engineering papers (Civil & Structural, Electrical, Mechanical) and the IMD Scientific Assistant paper run 2–6 November 2026; JE (Telecommunication) is later, on 30 November–1 December 2026. Full details in our revised JE 2026 exam dates explainer.
The vacancies are tentative — SSC's standard caveat — and the final position usually moves by a few dozen posts at document verification stage. The official table of 8 October 2026 is mirrored below.