Civil Service Statistics data browser (2021)

Data preview: All civil servants / Age / Responsibility_level_ungrouped / Function_of_post / Parent_department

Status Year Age Responsibility_level_ungrouped Function_of_post Parent_department Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2021 16-19 AA Digital, Data & Technology Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2021 16-19 AA Digital, Data & Technology HM Land Registry 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2021 16-19 AA Finance Department for Transport [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2021 16-19 AA Human Resources Department of Health and Social Care [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2021 16-19 AA Human Resources Scottish Government [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2021 16-19 AA No function Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2021 16-19 AA No function Department for Transport 25 15 18200 18060
In post 2021 16-19 AA No function Department of Health and Social Care 10 10 19600 18850
In post 2021 16-19 AA No function Ministry of Defence 10 10 [c] [c]
In post 2021 16-19 AA No function Ministry of Justice 50 50 19670 20600
In post 2021 16-19 AA No function Scottish Government [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2021 16-19 AA No function The National Archives [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2021 16-19 AA No function United Kingdom Statistics Authority [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2021 16-19 AA Project Delivery Ministry of Defence 15 15 15880 14850
In post 2021 16-19 AA Property Ministry of Defence [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2021 16-19 AA Property Scottish Government 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2021 16-19 AA Security Ministry of Defence 10 10 19560 19560
In post 2021 16-19 AA Unknown Home Office [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2021 16-19 AA Unknown Ministry of Defence 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2021 16-19 AA Unknown Scotland Office [c] [c] [c] [c]
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Notes: Summary figures are suppressed when information relates to less than 5 civil servants for FTE or Headcount, and less than 10 civil servants for median and mean salary (shown as [c]). Zero responses and salaries for less than 30 civil servants have been suppressed for GPDR special category data. FTE figures are not shown for entrants or leavers due to data quality concerns for these groups. Figures are rounded to the nearest 5, or £10 as appropriate.

Data source: All figures are aggregated from the Cabinet Office Annual Civil Service Employment Survey collection.

Version: Generated on 2023-02-16, with GIT 71a76ea.

Data column Description
Status Employment status of the civil servants.
In post - includes staff that were in post on the reference date (31 March).
New entrant CS - includes new entrants to the Civil Service over the year (1 April to 31 March).
Leaver CS - includes leavers from the Civil Service over the year (1 April to 31 March). This includes employees who have an Unknown leaving cause.
Leaver Dept. - includes leavers from the department over the year (1 April to 31 March), who did not leave the Civil Service.
Five organisations do not report when their employees first entered the Civil Service and so entrants data for these organisations is not available . These are as follows: Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (excl. agencies), Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office Services, Defence Electronics and Components Agency, Scottish Forestry and Forest and Land Scotland. A further three organisations also could not provide entrants data in 2021. These are as follows: Department for International Development, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (excl. agencies) and Royal Fleet Auxiliary.
Year Year of data collection (as at 31 March).
Parent_department Government Department, total figures for both Ministerial and Non-Ministerial Departments include all of their Executive Agencies.
Responsibility_level_ungrouped With the exception of the centrally managed Senior Civil Service, government departments have delegated pay and grading. For statistical purposes departments are asked to map their grades to a common framework by responsibility level.
This table shows staff in their substantive responsibility level unless on temporary promotion in which case staff are recorded at the higher responsibility level.
Responsibility_level_ungrouped shows the mapped grades at a higher level of detail, however not all Government Departments / bodies have distinct grades that map exactly to these levels so figures should be considered as approximations and treated with caution.
Function_of_post Functions relate to the post occupied by the person and are not dependent on qualifications the individual may have.
The Department for Work and Pensions provided aggregated functions data for 2021, which are available in the Civil Service Statistics publication. However, figures in this browser are derived from individual level data and so are not available for this department in 2021.
Home Office, Welsh Government and Royal Fleet Auxiliary did not report any functions information for their employees.
Of the 20 bodies under the Scottish Government, 16 did not report any functions information for their employees.
Age Age in 10 year bands. Age is calculated as at the reference date in each year (31st March), so entrants or leavers may have been up to one year younger at the date of exit or entry.
Headcount Total number of civil servants (rounded to nearest 5).
FTE Total full-time equivalent (FTE) employment numbers (rounded to nearest 5).
FTE figures are not shown for entrants or leavers due to data quality concerns for these groups.
Mean_salary Average salary (mean, rounded to nearest £10). For part-time employees, salaries represent the full-time equivalent earnings, while for full-time employees they are the actual annual gross salaries.
These figures should be interpreted with caution when the total number of employees in a group is small, as they will tend to show more variability than larger groups (i.e. may be much higher or lower than can be explained by the data shown).
Median_salary Median salary (rounded to nearest £10). For part-time employees, salaries represent the full-time equivalent earnings, while for full-time employees they are the actual annual gross salaries.
These figures should be interpreted with caution when the total number of employees in a group is small, as they will tend to show more variability than larger groups (i.e. may be much higher or lower than can be explained by the data shown).