Civil Service Statistics data browser (2021)

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

Status Year Ethnicity Sex Sexual_orientation Parent_department Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2021 Asian Female Heterosexual / straight Attorney General’s Departments 515 475 41930 40800
In post 2021 Asian Female Heterosexual / straight Cabinet Office 255 245 44440 40600
In post 2021 Asian Female Heterosexual / straight Chancellor’s other departments 15 15 [c] [c]
In post 2021 Asian Female Heterosexual / straight Charity Commission 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2021 Asian Female Heterosexual / straight Competition and Markets Authority 50 50 41770 34870
In post 2021 Asian Female Heterosexual / straight Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy 330 315 40380 36230
In post 2021 Asian Female Heterosexual / straight Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport 60 60 47280 51730
In post 2021 Asian Female Heterosexual / straight Department for Education 345 330 39010 36500
In post 2021 Asian Female Heterosexual / straight Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 175 170 36290 32560
In post 2021 Asian Female Heterosexual / straight Department for International Trade 90 90 40520 38160
In post 2021 Asian Female Heterosexual / straight Department for Transport 190 185 39860 35700
In post 2021 Asian Female Heterosexual / straight Department for Work and Pensions 3120 2750 28070 27570
In post 2021 Asian Female Heterosexual / straight Department of Health and Social Care 585 545 39580 32790
In post 2021 Asian Female Heterosexual / straight ESTYN [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2021 Asian Female Heterosexual / straight Food Standards Agency 20 20 [c] [c]
In post 2021 Asian Female Heterosexual / straight Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office 235 225 40640 36360
In post 2021 Asian Female Heterosexual / straight HM Land Registry 75 70 30700 27130
In post 2021 Asian Female Heterosexual / straight HM Revenue and Customs 1450 1320 31640 29570
In post 2021 Asian Female Heterosexual / straight HM Treasury 125 120 44890 42250
In post 2021 Asian Female Heterosexual / straight Home Office 2325 2090 31350 28850
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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.
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).