Civil Service Statistics data browser (2021)

Data preview: All civil servants / Sex / Sexual_orientation / Disability / Responsibility_level_grouped

Status Year Sex Sexual_orientation Disability Responsibility_level_grouped Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2021 Female Heterosexual / straight Declared disabled AA/AO 6695 5620 21480 21010
In post 2021 Female Heterosexual / straight Declared disabled EO 7375 6520 27590 27570
In post 2021 Female Heterosexual / straight Declared disabled G6/G7 1895 1795 57840 55610
In post 2021 Female Heterosexual / straight Declared disabled SCS level 160 155 87580 81440
In post 2021 Female Heterosexual / straight Declared disabled SEO/HEO 5040 4730 36210 35070
In post 2021 Female Heterosexual / straight Declared disabled Unknown 1560 1435 30500 30210
In post 2021 Female Heterosexual / straight Declared non-disabled AA/AO 37595 32480 21710 21010
In post 2021 Female Heterosexual / straight Declared non-disabled EO 38225 34525 27380 27570
In post 2021 Female Heterosexual / straight Declared non-disabled G6/G7 17120 16200 58360 56510
In post 2021 Female Heterosexual / straight Declared non-disabled SCS level 1995 1890 87410 80070
In post 2021 Female Heterosexual / straight Declared non-disabled SEO/HEO 36280 34230 36340 35310
In post 2021 Female Heterosexual / straight Declared non-disabled Unknown 6310 5790 30330 30210
In post 2021 Female Heterosexual / straight Undeclared AA/AO 2110 1815 22200 21030
In post 2021 Female Heterosexual / straight Undeclared EO 1640 1510 27640 27570
In post 2021 Female Heterosexual / straight Undeclared G6/G7 550 525 57850 56130
In post 2021 Female Heterosexual / straight Undeclared SCS level 60 55 83380 79600
In post 2021 Female Heterosexual / straight Undeclared SEO/HEO 1545 1475 36640 36010
In post 2021 Female Heterosexual / straight Undeclared Unknown 235 220 30670 30210
In post 2021 Female Heterosexual / straight Unknown AA/AO 2390 2095 21840 21440
In post 2021 Female Heterosexual / straight Unknown EO 2465 2320 28680 28110
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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 2023-02-18, 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.
Sex Self reported sex.
“Unknown” accounts for employees who were recorded with an unknown sex.
Disability Self reported disability.
“Undeclared” accounts for employees who have actively declared that they do not want to disclose their disability status and “Unknown” accounts for employees who have not made an active declaration about their disability status.
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).