Civil Service Statistics data browser (2021)

Data preview: All civil servants / Responsibility_level_ungrouped / Region_london / Sexual_orientation

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Status Year Responsibility_level_ungrouped Region_london Sexual_orientation Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2021 AA London Heterosexual / straight 1100 1015 22160 22210
In post 2021 AA London LGBO 50 50 22440 22430
In post 2021 AA London Undeclared 150 135 21740 22210
In post 2021 AA London Unknown 470 440 22410 22210
In post 2021 AA Outside London Heterosexual / straight 10785 9835 19630 19560
In post 2021 AA Outside London LGBO 580 555 19930 20070
In post 2021 AA Outside London Undeclared 1825 1560 19350 19560
In post 2021 AA Outside London Unknown 4125 3665 20200 20310
In post 2021 AA Overseas Heterosexual / straight [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2021 AA Overseas LGBO [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2021 AA Unknown Heterosexual / straight 10 10 [c] [c]
In post 2021 AA Unknown LGBO [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2021 AA Unknown Unknown [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2021 AO London Heterosexual / straight 6855 6405 26030 25110
In post 2021 AO London LGBO 350 340 26780 25110
In post 2021 AO London Undeclared 980 900 25570 25110
In post 2021 AO London Unknown 2745 2530 26330 25110
In post 2021 AO Outside London Heterosexual / straight 67215 60465 22560 21130
In post 2021 AO Outside London LGBO 3910 3735 22820 21050
In post 2021 AO Outside London Undeclared 9695 8565 22720 21430
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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 2023-02-14, 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.
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.
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).