Civil Service Statistics data browser (2022)

Data preview: All civil servants / Age / Responsibility_level_ungrouped / Parent_department / Region_london

Status Year Age Responsibility_level_ungrouped Parent_department Region_london Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2022 16-19 AA Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Outside London [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2022 16-19 AA Department for Transport Outside London 60 45 18310 18310
In post 2022 16-19 AA Department of Health and Social Care London 5 0 [c] [c]
In post 2022 16-19 AA Department of Health and Social Care Outside London [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2022 16-19 AA HM Land Registry Outside London 10 10 [c] [c]
In post 2022 16-19 AA Home Office Outside London [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2022 16-19 AA Ministry of Defence Outside London 30 30 17580 17450
In post 2022 16-19 AA Ministry of Justice London 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2022 16-19 AA Ministry of Justice Outside London 60 60 20640 20890
In post 2022 16-19 AA Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation Outside London [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2022 16-19 AA Scottish Government Outside London 50 50 21300 21050
In post 2022 16-19 AA The National Archives London [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2022 16-19 AA UK Statistics Authority Outside London 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2022 16-19 AO Attorney General’s Departments London 10 10 21990 21850
In post 2022 16-19 AO Attorney General’s Departments Outside London 25 25 21400 22200
In post 2022 16-19 AO Cabinet Office London [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2022 16-19 AO Cabinet Office Outside London [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2022 16-19 AO Chancellor’s other departments London [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2022 16-19 AO Charity Commission Outside London [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2022 16-19 AO Competition and Markets Authority London [c] [c] [c] [c]
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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 2023-02-15, 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.
Organisation specific notes on status: In late June 2021 around 7,000 employees from Community Rehabilitation Companies were transferred in from the private sector to HM Prison and Probation Service, counting as entrants. HM Land Registry do not record where their departing employees transfer to and so are unable to identify those that transfer to another Civil Service department.
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.
On 30 September 2021, the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government changed its name to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities.
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.
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”.
Age Age in 10 year bands. Age is calculated as at the reference date in each year (31st March), so entrants or leavers may have been up to one year younger at the date of exit or entry.
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).