Civil Service Statistics data browser (2021)

Data preview: All civil servants / Sex / Ethnicity / Parent_department

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Status Year Sex Ethnicity Parent_department Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2021 Female Asian Attorney General’s Departments 625 565 42160 41490
In post 2021 Female Asian Cabinet Office 280 270 44200 38560
In post 2021 Female Asian Chancellor’s other departments 25 25 [c] [c]
In post 2021 Female Asian Charity Commission 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2021 Female Asian Competition and Markets Authority 60 55 42590 35270
In post 2021 Female Asian Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy 410 390 39490 35300
In post 2021 Female Asian Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport 70 65 46090 50860
In post 2021 Female Asian Department for Education 405 390 39370 36570
In post 2021 Female Asian Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 205 195 35160 32560
In post 2021 Female Asian Department for International Trade 100 95 41680 38160
In post 2021 Female Asian Department for Transport 220 205 38720 35060
In post 2021 Female Asian Department for Work and Pensions 4415 3780 27730 27570
In post 2021 Female Asian Department of Health and Social Care 765 715 41160 32980
In post 2021 Female Asian ESTYN [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2021 Female Asian Food Standards Agency 25 25 [c] [c]
In post 2021 Female Asian Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office 265 250 40810 36360
In post 2021 Female Asian HM Land Registry 115 100 30340 27130
In post 2021 Female Asian HM Revenue and Customs 2080 1865 30580 28130
In post 2021 Female Asian HM Treasury 150 145 44290 40680
In post 2021 Female Asian Home Office 2600 2335 31130 28850
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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).
Parent_department Government Department, total figures for both Ministerial and Non-Ministerial Departments include all of their Executive Agencies.
Sex Self reported sex.
“Unknown” accounts for employees who were recorded with an unknown sex.
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).