Civil Service Statistics data browser (2021)

Data preview: All civil servants / Responsibility_level_grouped / Organisation / Parent_department / Responsibility_level_ungrouped

Status Year Responsibility_level_grouped Organisation Parent_department Responsibility_level_ungrouped Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2021 AA/AO Accountant in Bankruptcy Scottish Government AA 35 30 22070 22230
In post 2021 AA/AO Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy AO 50 45 21090 21000
In post 2021 AA/AO Animal and Plant Health Agency Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs AA 10 10 20460 21330
In post 2021 AA/AO Animal and Plant Health Agency Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs AO 800 745 21900 21050
In post 2021 AA/AO Cabinet Office (excl. agencies) Cabinet Office AO 555 515 21810 20920
In post 2021 AA/AO Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs AA 10 10 17640 17640
In post 2021 AA/AO Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs AO 45 40 21150 21050
In post 2021 AA/AO Charity Commission Charity Commission AO 20 15 20130 19950
In post 2021 AA/AO Companies House Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy AA [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2021 AA/AO Companies House Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy AO 425 370 21750 22490
In post 2021 AA/AO Competition and Markets Authority Competition and Markets Authority AO 25 25 23300 22860
In post 2021 AA/AO Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority Ministry of Justice AA 10 10 17720 17880
In post 2021 AA/AO Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority Ministry of Justice AO 105 95 20540 20650
In post 2021 AA/AO Crown Commercial Service Other Cabinet Office Agencies AO 25 25 19610 18870
In post 2021 AA/AO Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service Scottish Government AO 710 630 21930 22220
In post 2021 AA/AO Crown Prosecution Service Attorney General’s Departments AA 15 15 19690 20180
In post 2021 AA/AO Crown Prosecution Service Attorney General’s Departments AO 1440 1320 22260 21950
In post 2021 AA/AO Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate Attorney General’s Departments AO [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2021 AA/AO Defence Electronics and Components Agency Ministry of Defence AA 30 30 17340 16780
In post 2021 AA/AO Defence Electronics and Components Agency Ministry of Defence AO 60 55 21350 21000
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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 2023-02-18, 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.
Organisation Executive Agencies, Ministerial and Non-Ministerial Departments, Crown Non-departmental Public Bodies.
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.
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).