Civil Service Statistics data browser (2021)

Data preview: All civil servants / Sex / Age / Responsibility_level_ungrouped / Responsibility_level_grouped

Status Year Sex Age Responsibility_level_ungrouped Responsibility_level_grouped Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2021 Female 16-19 AA AA/AO 105 95 19800 20060
In post 2021 Female 16-19 AO AA/AO 425 410 21250 21010
In post 2021 Female 16-19 EO EO 125 125 24330 25200
In post 2021 Female 16-19 HEO SEO/HEO [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2021 Female 16-19 Unknown Unknown 15 15 [c] [c]
In post 2021 Female 20-29 AA AA/AO 1515 1445 20060 20600
In post 2021 Female 20-29 AO AA/AO 12290 11820 22410 21170
In post 2021 Female 20-29 EO EO 12040 11850 27120 27500
In post 2021 Female 20-29 G6 G6/G7 160 160 64540 64500
In post 2021 Female 20-29 G7 G6/G7 2115 2110 53490 53360
In post 2021 Female 20-29 HEO SEO/HEO 8880 8820 32300 32000
In post 2021 Female 20-29 SCS level SCS level 20 20 [c] [c]
In post 2021 Female 20-29 SEO SEO/HEO 2945 2925 39670 40000
In post 2021 Female 20-29 Unknown Unknown 2020 1980 25740 23840
In post 2021 Female 30-39 AA AA/AO 1300 1100 19900 20060
In post 2021 Female 30-39 AO AA/AO 12420 10510 22150 21010
In post 2021 Female 30-39 EO EO 14165 12880 27340 27570
In post 2021 Female 30-39 G6 G6/G7 1945 1860 66480 65610
In post 2021 Female 30-39 G7 G6/G7 6580 6265 54110 53480
In post 2021 Female 30-39 HEO SEO/HEO 9300 8780 32870 31990
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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.
Sex Self reported sex.
“Unknown” accounts for employees who were recorded with an unknown sex.
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).