Civil Service Statistics data browser (2021)

Data preview: All civil servants / Ethnicity / Sexual_orientation / Responsibility_level_ungrouped / Age

Status Year Ethnicity Sexual_orientation Responsibility_level_ungrouped Age Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2021 Asian Heterosexual / straight AA 16-19 [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2021 Asian Heterosexual / straight AA 20-29 75 70 20680 20600
In post 2021 Asian Heterosexual / straight AA 30-39 100 85 20610 20600
In post 2021 Asian Heterosexual / straight AA 40-49 95 85 20440 20070
In post 2021 Asian Heterosexual / straight AA 50-59 145 140 20580 20180
In post 2021 Asian Heterosexual / straight AA 60-64 55 50 20810 21100
In post 2021 Asian Heterosexual / straight AA 65+ 35 30 22080 22210
In post 2021 Asian Heterosexual / straight AO 16-19 40 35 21190 21010
In post 2021 Asian Heterosexual / straight AO 20-29 1390 1325 21870 21010
In post 2021 Asian Heterosexual / straight AO 30-39 1495 1335 22090 21010
In post 2021 Asian Heterosexual / straight AO 40-49 1305 1115 22520 21180
In post 2021 Asian Heterosexual / straight AO 50-59 940 835 22740 21430
In post 2021 Asian Heterosexual / straight AO 60-64 280 240 23510 23520
In post 2021 Asian Heterosexual / straight AO 65+ 150 115 24090 25110
In post 2021 Asian Heterosexual / straight AO Unknown [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2021 Asian Heterosexual / straight EO 16-19 20 20 [c] [c]
In post 2021 Asian Heterosexual / straight EO 20-29 2010 1985 27940 27570
In post 2021 Asian Heterosexual / straight EO 30-39 2235 2115 27780 27570
In post 2021 Asian Heterosexual / straight EO 40-49 1890 1740 28260 27570
In post 2021 Asian Heterosexual / straight EO 50-59 1370 1280 28840 28990
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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 2023-02-17, 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_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.
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.
Age Age in 10 year bands. Age is calculated as at the reference date in each year (31st March), so entrants or leavers may have been up to one year younger at the date of exit or entry.
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).