Civil Service Statistics data browser (2021)

Data preview: All civil servants / Sex / Parent_department / Responsibility_level_ungrouped / Sexual_orientation

Status Year Sex Parent_department Responsibility_level_ungrouped Sexual_orientation Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2021 Female Attorney General’s Departments AA Heterosexual / straight [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2021 Female Attorney General’s Departments AA LGBO [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2021 Female Attorney General’s Departments AA Undeclared [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2021 Female Attorney General’s Departments AA Unknown [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2021 Female Attorney General’s Departments AO Heterosexual / straight 795 720 22370 21950
In post 2021 Female Attorney General’s Departments AO LGBO 30 30 22080 21950
In post 2021 Female Attorney General’s Departments AO Undeclared 35 35 22180 21950
In post 2021 Female Attorney General’s Departments AO Unknown 250 215 22200 21950
In post 2021 Female Attorney General’s Departments EO Heterosexual / straight 855 785 27920 27760
In post 2021 Female Attorney General’s Departments EO LGBO 50 50 27740 27350
In post 2021 Female Attorney General’s Departments EO Undeclared 40 40 28260 27580
In post 2021 Female Attorney General’s Departments EO Unknown 290 250 28410 28430
In post 2021 Female Attorney General’s Departments G6 Heterosexual / straight 390 355 68040 66610
In post 2021 Female Attorney General’s Departments G6 LGBO 20 20 [c] [c]
In post 2021 Female Attorney General’s Departments G6 Undeclared 40 35 69030 67100
In post 2021 Female Attorney General’s Departments G6 Unknown 190 165 68290 66800
In post 2021 Female Attorney General’s Departments G7 Heterosexual / straight 1625 1470 54430 51830
In post 2021 Female Attorney General’s Departments G7 LGBO 55 50 54980 51990
In post 2021 Female Attorney General’s Departments G7 Undeclared 85 75 54120 51790
In post 2021 Female Attorney General’s Departments G7 Unknown 555 475 56800 55610
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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).
Parent_department Government Department, total figures for both Ministerial and Non-Ministerial Departments include all of their Executive Agencies.
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.
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).