Civil Service Statistics data browser (2021)

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

Status Year Responsibility_level_ungrouped Responsibility_level_grouped Region_london Ethnicity Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2021 AA AA/AO London Asian 275 245 22160 22210
In post 2021 AA AA/AO London Black 305 290 23100 22650
In post 2021 AA AA/AO London Chinese 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2021 AA AA/AO London Mixed 40 35 22920 22430
In post 2021 AA AA/AO London Other ethnicity 25 20 [c] [c]
In post 2021 AA AA/AO London Undeclared 55 50 21450 22100
In post 2021 AA AA/AO London Unknown 285 275 21350 20330
In post 2021 AA AA/AO London White 785 720 22180 22210
In post 2021 AA AA/AO Outside London Asian 380 335 19650 19560
In post 2021 AA AA/AO Outside London Black 210 200 20320 20600
In post 2021 AA AA/AO Outside London Chinese 25 25 [c] [c]
In post 2021 AA AA/AO Outside London Mixed 125 115 19640 19560
In post 2021 AA AA/AO Outside London Other ethnicity 50 45 19880 19560
In post 2021 AA AA/AO Outside London Undeclared 395 360 19380 19560
In post 2021 AA AA/AO Outside London Unknown 3085 2790 19970 20070
In post 2021 AA AA/AO Outside London White 13045 11745 19700 19560
In post 2021 AA AA/AO Overseas Asian [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2021 AA AA/AO Overseas Black [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2021 AA AA/AO Overseas Chinese [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2021 AA AA/AO Overseas Mixed [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 2023-02-16, 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).