Civil Service Statistics data browser (2021)

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

Status Year Sex Responsibility_level_grouped Ethnicity Responsibility_level_ungrouped Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2021 Female AA/AO Asian AA 300 250 20440 20230
In post 2021 Female AA/AO Asian AO 4300 3565 22240 21430
In post 2021 Female AA/AO Black AA 250 225 21880 21880
In post 2021 Female AA/AO Black AO 2225 2010 23570 23430
In post 2021 Female AA/AO Chinese AA 10 10 [c] [c]
In post 2021 Female AA/AO Chinese AO 140 120 21810 21010
In post 2021 Female AA/AO Mixed AA 90 80 20280 20600
In post 2021 Female AA/AO Mixed AO 1020 910 22560 21300
In post 2021 Female AA/AO Other ethnicity AA 25 20 [c] [c]
In post 2021 Female AA/AO Other ethnicity AO 285 245 22740 21590
In post 2021 Female AA/AO Undeclared AA 155 125 19700 19660
In post 2021 Female AA/AO Undeclared AO 2230 1855 21860 21010
In post 2021 Female AA/AO Unknown AA 1720 1500 20020 20070
In post 2021 Female AA/AO Unknown AO 10675 9495 21850 21010
In post 2021 Female AA/AO White AA 6710 5710 19670 19560
In post 2021 Female AA/AO White AO 49215 41825 21940 21010
In post 2021 Female EO Asian EO 5625 5070 28380 28120
In post 2021 Female EO Black EO 3695 3495 29190 29290
In post 2021 Female EO Chinese EO 185 170 27760 27570
In post 2021 Female EO Mixed EO 1375 1280 27970 27570
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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 2023-02-17, 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.
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).