Civil Service Statistics data browser (2021)

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

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Status Year Ethnicity Sexual_orientation Parent_department Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2021 Asian Heterosexual / straight Attorney General’s Departments 750 700 42240 40800
In post 2021 Asian Heterosexual / straight Cabinet Office 420 410 45750 40600
In post 2021 Asian Heterosexual / straight Chancellor’s other departments 35 35 45650 37660
In post 2021 Asian Heterosexual / straight Charity Commission 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2021 Asian Heterosexual / straight Competition and Markets Authority 95 95 45380 36990
In post 2021 Asian Heterosexual / straight Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy 580 560 40160 36120
In post 2021 Asian Heterosexual / straight Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport 110 110 46790 42020
In post 2021 Asian Heterosexual / straight Department for Education 600 585 39350 36500
In post 2021 Asian Heterosexual / straight Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 305 295 37110 33120
In post 2021 Asian Heterosexual / straight Department for International Trade 190 185 41790 38300
In post 2021 Asian Heterosexual / straight Department for Transport 450 440 40890 35430
In post 2021 Asian Heterosexual / straight Department for Work and Pensions 5480 5050 28260 27570
In post 2021 Asian Heterosexual / straight Department of Health and Social Care 875 830 40730 33090
In post 2021 Asian Heterosexual / straight ESTYN [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2021 Asian Heterosexual / straight Food Standards Agency 40 40 38840 32830
In post 2021 Asian Heterosexual / straight Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office 415 405 42260 36900
In post 2021 Asian Heterosexual / straight HM Land Registry 150 140 31390 27130
In post 2021 Asian Heterosexual / straight HM Revenue and Customs 3240 3060 31510 29570
In post 2021 Asian Heterosexual / straight HM Treasury 220 220 44600 40890
In post 2021 Asian Heterosexual / straight Home Office 4065 3775 31470 28810
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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 2023-02-14, 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.
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).