Civil Service Statistics data browser (2021)

Data preview: All civil servants / Ethnicity / Sex / Responsibility_level_grouped / Sexual_orientation

Status Year Ethnicity Sex Responsibility_level_grouped Sexual_orientation Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2021 Asian Female AA/AO Heterosexual / straight 3365 2850 22070 21300
In post 2021 Asian Female AA/AO LGBO 95 75 22600 21440
In post 2021 Asian Female AA/AO Undeclared 405 330 22420 21440
In post 2021 Asian Female AA/AO Unknown 730 550 22150 21010
In post 2021 Asian Female EO Heterosexual / straight 4455 4065 28320 28010
In post 2021 Asian Female EO LGBO 85 80 28490 27680
In post 2021 Asian Female EO Undeclared 360 315 28550 28860
In post 2021 Asian Female EO Unknown 720 610 28620 27570
In post 2021 Asian Female G6/G7 Heterosexual / straight 1375 1325 58110 56540
In post 2021 Asian Female G6/G7 LGBO 30 30 [c] [c]
In post 2021 Asian Female G6/G7 Undeclared 70 70 58320 56730
In post 2021 Asian Female G6/G7 Unknown 150 135 58480 55770
In post 2021 Asian Female SCS level Heterosexual / straight 130 120 90720 88360
In post 2021 Asian Female SCS level LGBO [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2021 Asian Female SCS level Undeclared 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2021 Asian Female SCS level Unknown 20 20 [c] [c]
In post 2021 Asian Female SEO/HEO Heterosexual / straight 3300 3175 36620 36160
In post 2021 Asian Female SEO/HEO LGBO 55 50 35890 34770
In post 2021 Asian Female SEO/HEO Undeclared 200 190 37170 36160
In post 2021 Asian Female SEO/HEO Unknown 340 325 36940 36500
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About: The Civil Service Statistics data browser is a pilot project by Cabinet Office to provide access to more detailed data on the Civil Service workforce from the Annual Civil Service Employment Survey. We welcome feedback or comments on this project, which can be addressed to civilservicestatistics@cabinetoffice.gov.uk

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.
Sex Self reported sex.
“Unknown” accounts for employees who were recorded with an unknown sex.
Ethnicity Self reported ethnicity. “Undeclared” accounts for employees who have actively declared that they do not want to disclose their ethnicity and “Unknown” accounts for employees who have not made an active declaration about their ethnicity.
For consistency with Civil Service Statistics, ‘Chinese’ is shown separately in the 2021 figures, but counted within ‘Asian’ from 2022 onwards.
Sexual_orientation Self reported sexual orientation.
“Undeclared” accounts for employees who have actively declared that they do not want to disclose their sexual orientation and “Unknown” accounts for employees who have not made an active declaration about their sexual orientation.
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).