Civil Service Statistics data browser (2021)

Data preview: All civil servants / Sexual_orientation / Region_london / Responsibility_level_grouped / Ethnicity

Status Year Sexual_orientation Region_london Responsibility_level_grouped Ethnicity Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2021 Heterosexual / straight London AA/AO Asian 1830 1660 24780 25110
In post 2021 Heterosexual / straight London AA/AO Black 1800 1705 25630 25110
In post 2021 Heterosexual / straight London AA/AO Chinese 35 30 25550 25110
In post 2021 Heterosexual / straight London AA/AO Mixed 340 325 25650 25110
In post 2021 Heterosexual / straight London AA/AO Other ethnicity 130 120 25870 25110
In post 2021 Heterosexual / straight London AA/AO Undeclared 145 135 24910 25110
In post 2021 Heterosexual / straight London AA/AO Unknown 130 120 27000 25110
In post 2021 Heterosexual / straight London AA/AO White 3550 3325 25730 24900
In post 2021 Heterosexual / straight London EO Asian 3745 3520 29730 29570
In post 2021 Heterosexual / straight London EO Black 2830 2735 30070 30720
In post 2021 Heterosexual / straight London EO Chinese 100 95 29530 29450
In post 2021 Heterosexual / straight London EO Mixed 615 590 29680 29610
In post 2021 Heterosexual / straight London EO Other ethnicity 240 230 29840 30260
In post 2021 Heterosexual / straight London EO Undeclared 270 255 30230 30720
In post 2021 Heterosexual / straight London EO Unknown 140 135 30270 31060
In post 2021 Heterosexual / straight London EO White 6300 5965 30100 29740
In post 2021 Heterosexual / straight London G6/G7 Asian 1765 1720 59260 57680
In post 2021 Heterosexual / straight London G6/G7 Black 815 805 58560 57460
In post 2021 Heterosexual / straight London G6/G7 Chinese 145 145 59390 57870
In post 2021 Heterosexual / straight London G6/G7 Mixed 650 630 58740 57430
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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).
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.
Region_london Workplace postcode data are used to derive geographical information using the International Territorial Level (ITL) classification standard.
Region_london groups the ITL classifications into “London”, “Outside London”: all UK regions excluding London, “Overseas”, and “Unknown”.
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.
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).