Civil Service Statistics data browser (2021)

Data preview: All civil servants / Region_london / Responsibility_level_ungrouped / Responsibility_level_grouped / Ethnicity

Status Year Region_london Responsibility_level_ungrouped Responsibility_level_grouped Ethnicity Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2021 London AA AA/AO Asian 275 245 22160 22210
In post 2021 London AA AA/AO Black 305 290 23100 22650
In post 2021 London AA AA/AO Chinese 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2021 London AA AA/AO Mixed 40 35 22920 22430
In post 2021 London AA AA/AO Other ethnicity 25 20 [c] [c]
In post 2021 London AA AA/AO Undeclared 55 50 21450 22100
In post 2021 London AA AA/AO Unknown 285 275 21350 20330
In post 2021 London AA AA/AO White 785 720 22180 22210
In post 2021 London AO AA/AO Asian 2155 1920 25080 25110
In post 2021 London AO AA/AO Black 1985 1860 26120 25110
In post 2021 London AO AA/AO Chinese 45 45 25630 25110
In post 2021 London AO AA/AO Mixed 390 375 26030 25110
In post 2021 London AO AA/AO Other ethnicity 150 140 25970 25110
In post 2021 London AO AA/AO Undeclared 520 480 25200 25110
In post 2021 London AO AA/AO Unknown 1735 1660 26340 24880
In post 2021 London AO AA/AO White 3950 3700 26640 25140
In post 2021 London EO EO Asian 4560 4245 29820 30070
In post 2021 London EO EO Black 3540 3395 30170 31060
In post 2021 London EO EO Chinese 120 115 29560 29500
In post 2021 London EO EO Mixed 780 750 29690 29970
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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).
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.
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.
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.
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).