Civil Service Statistics data browser (2021)

Data preview: All civil servants / Sexual_orientation / Ethnicity / Disability / Responsibility_level_ungrouped

Status Year Sexual_orientation Ethnicity Disability Responsibility_level_ungrouped Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2021 Heterosexual / straight Asian Declared disabled AA 50 45 20570 20280
In post 2021 Heterosexual / straight Asian Declared disabled AO 560 495 22530 21070
In post 2021 Heterosexual / straight Asian Declared disabled EO 840 770 28630 28150
In post 2021 Heterosexual / straight Asian Declared disabled G6 45 45 67620 66770
In post 2021 Heterosexual / straight Asian Declared disabled G7 160 155 56010 54500
In post 2021 Heterosexual / straight Asian Declared disabled HEO 340 320 34190 34020
In post 2021 Heterosexual / straight Asian Declared disabled SCS level 15 15 [c] [c]
In post 2021 Heterosexual / straight Asian Declared disabled SEO 195 190 41500 41090
In post 2021 Heterosexual / straight Asian Declared disabled Unknown 85 80 30390 30210
In post 2021 Heterosexual / straight Asian Declared non-disabled AA 405 370 20670 20600
In post 2021 Heterosexual / straight Asian Declared non-disabled AO 4585 4100 22310 21140
In post 2021 Heterosexual / straight Asian Declared non-disabled EO 6490 6125 28140 27570
In post 2021 Heterosexual / straight Asian Declared non-disabled G6 405 390 68770 67340
In post 2021 Heterosexual / straight Asian Declared non-disabled G7 1615 1575 56150 54760
In post 2021 Heterosexual / straight Asian Declared non-disabled HEO 3200 3095 33890 33640
In post 2021 Heterosexual / straight Asian Declared non-disabled SCS level 205 195 90480 88180
In post 2021 Heterosexual / straight Asian Declared non-disabled SEO 1885 1845 41940 41500
In post 2021 Heterosexual / straight Asian Declared non-disabled Unknown 465 435 29830 28200
In post 2021 Heterosexual / straight Asian Undeclared AA 15 15 [c] [c]
In post 2021 Heterosexual / straight Asian Undeclared AO 220 190 22540 21010
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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_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.
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.
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).