Civil Service Statistics data browser (2021)

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

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Status Year Ethnicity Sexual_orientation Region_london Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2021 Asian Heterosexual / straight London 11160 10620 37240 32090
In post 2021 Asian Heterosexual / straight Outside London 12310 11465 28890 27230
In post 2021 Asian Heterosexual / straight Overseas 130 130 45910 41090
In post 2021 Asian Heterosexual / straight Unknown 130 120 30270 27570
In post 2021 Asian LGBO London 285 270 38530 32870
In post 2021 Asian LGBO Outside London 285 265 27690 25560
In post 2021 Asian LGBO Overseas 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2021 Asian LGBO Unknown 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2021 Asian Undeclared London 830 760 34250 30890
In post 2021 Asian Undeclared Outside London 805 720 27250 25310
In post 2021 Asian Undeclared Overseas 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2021 Asian Undeclared Unknown 10 10 [c] [c]
In post 2021 Asian Unknown London 1285 1155 36740 31880
In post 2021 Asian Unknown Outside London 1875 1635 28070 25900
In post 2021 Asian Unknown Overseas 10 10 [c] [c]
In post 2021 Asian Unknown Unknown 20 15 [c] [c]
In post 2021 Black Heterosexual / straight London 8195 7960 34640 31060
In post 2021 Black Heterosexual / straight Outside London 4645 4425 29540 27570
In post 2021 Black Heterosexual / straight Overseas 60 60 42250 37500
In post 2021 Black Heterosexual / straight Unknown 45 45 30500 27570
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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).
Region_london Workplace postcode data are used to derive geographical information using the International Territorial Level (ITL) classification standard.
Region_london groups the ITL classifications into “London”, “Outside London”: all UK regions excluding London, “Overseas”, and “Unknown”.
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).