Civil Service Statistics data browser (2021)

Data preview: All civil servants / Responsibility_level_grouped / Sexual_orientation / Region_london / Age

Status Year Responsibility_level_grouped Sexual_orientation Region_london Age Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2021 AA/AO Heterosexual / straight London 16-19 40 35 23410 23500
In post 2021 AA/AO Heterosexual / straight London 20-29 1570 1545 25610 24900
In post 2021 AA/AO Heterosexual / straight London 30-39 1320 1230 26640 25450
In post 2021 AA/AO Heterosexual / straight London 40-49 1445 1325 25910 25110
In post 2021 AA/AO Heterosexual / straight London 50-59 2230 2100 25150 25060
In post 2021 AA/AO Heterosexual / straight London 60-64 890 800 24560 24740
In post 2021 AA/AO Heterosexual / straight London 65+ 465 385 24100 24370
In post 2021 AA/AO Heterosexual / straight Outside London 16-19 460 440 20760 21010
In post 2021 AA/AO Heterosexual / straight Outside London 20-29 13770 13360 22300 21050
In post 2021 AA/AO Heterosexual / straight Outside London 30-39 15000 13630 22530 21050
In post 2021 AA/AO Heterosexual / straight Outside London 40-49 15255 13680 22290 21010
In post 2021 AA/AO Heterosexual / straight Outside London 50-59 22630 20415 22140 21010
In post 2021 AA/AO Heterosexual / straight Outside London 60-64 8170 6690 21460 21010
In post 2021 AA/AO Heterosexual / straight Outside London 65+ 2710 2085 20980 21010
In post 2021 AA/AO Heterosexual / straight Outside London Unknown 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2021 AA/AO Heterosexual / straight Overseas 20-29 [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2021 AA/AO Heterosexual / straight Overseas 30-39 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2021 AA/AO Heterosexual / straight Overseas 40-49 10 10 [c] [c]
In post 2021 AA/AO Heterosexual / straight Overseas 50-59 15 15 [c] [c]
In post 2021 AA/AO Heterosexual / straight Overseas 60-64 [c] [c] [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).
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.
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”.
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).