Civil Service Statistics data browser (2021)

Data preview: All civil servants / Disability / Responsibility_level_ungrouped / Sex / Responsibility_level_grouped

Status Year Disability Responsibility_level_ungrouped Sex Responsibility_level_grouped Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2021 Declared disabled AA Female AA/AO 1045 885 19670 19560
In post 2021 Declared disabled AA Male AA/AO 1005 930 19970 20060
In post 2021 Declared disabled AA Unknown AA/AO [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2021 Declared disabled AO Female AA/AO 8185 6845 21780 21010
In post 2021 Declared disabled AO Male AA/AO 5305 4965 23130 21050
In post 2021 Declared disabled AO Unknown AA/AO [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2021 Declared disabled EO Female EO 9790 8640 27630 27570
In post 2021 Declared disabled EO Male EO 5895 5585 28070 27570
In post 2021 Declared disabled EO Unknown EO [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2021 Declared disabled G6 Female G6/G7 610 580 67470 66320
In post 2021 Declared disabled G6 Male G6/G7 525 515 68760 66840
In post 2021 Declared disabled G6 Unknown G6/G7 [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2021 Declared disabled G7 Female G6/G7 1855 1760 54870 53940
In post 2021 Declared disabled G7 Male G6/G7 1635 1595 55550 54700
In post 2021 Declared disabled G7 Unknown G6/G7 [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2021 Declared disabled HEO Female SEO/HEO 4070 3805 33200 32940
In post 2021 Declared disabled HEO Male SEO/HEO 3195 3085 33820 33300
In post 2021 Declared disabled HEO Unknown SEO/HEO [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2021 Declared disabled SCS level Female SCS level 200 195 86880 80000
In post 2021 Declared disabled SCS level Male SCS level 225 220 90630 82230
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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).
Responsibility_level_grouped 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_grouped combines the mapped grades into five broad responsibility levels. This is the headline measure for responsibility level for the Civil Service and is consistent with the published National Statistics.
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.
Sex Self reported sex.
“Unknown” accounts for employees who were recorded with an unknown sex.
Disability Self reported disability.
“Undeclared” accounts for employees who have actively declared that they do not want to disclose their disability status and “Unknown” accounts for employees who have not made an active declaration about their disability status.
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).