Civil Service Statistics data browser (2021)

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

Status Year Responsibility_level_grouped Parent_department Organisation Responsibility_level_ungrouped Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2021 AA/AO Attorney General’s Departments Crown Prosecution Service AA 15 15 19690 20180
In post 2021 AA/AO Attorney General’s Departments Crown Prosecution Service AO 1440 1320 22260 21950
In post 2021 AA/AO Attorney General’s Departments Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate AO [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2021 AA/AO Attorney General’s Departments Government Legal Department AO 65 60 23740 23800
In post 2021 AA/AO Attorney General’s Departments Serious Fraud Office AA [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2021 AA/AO Attorney General’s Departments Serious Fraud Office AO 15 15 23960 23960
In post 2021 AA/AO Cabinet Office Cabinet Office (excl. agencies) AO 555 515 21810 20920
In post 2021 AA/AO Chancellor’s other departments Government Actuary’s Department AO 15 15 23140 23030
In post 2021 AA/AO Chancellor’s other departments National Savings and Investments AA 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2021 AA/AO Charity Commission Charity Commission AO 20 15 20130 19950
In post 2021 AA/AO Competition and Markets Authority Competition and Markets Authority AO 25 25 23300 22860
In post 2021 AA/AO Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service AO 50 45 21090 21000
In post 2021 AA/AO Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Companies House AA [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2021 AA/AO Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Companies House AO 425 370 21750 22490
In post 2021 AA/AO Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (excl. agencies) AO 80 75 24600 24900
In post 2021 AA/AO Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Insolvency Service AA 65 60 19430 18900
In post 2021 AA/AO Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Insolvency Service AO 575 540 21400 20880
In post 2021 AA/AO Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Met Office AA 20 20 19430 19730
In post 2021 AA/AO Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Met Office AO 80 80 24370 21910
In post 2021 AA/AO Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy UK Intellectual Property Office AA 5 5 [c] [c]
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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).
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).