Civil Service Statistics data browser (2022)

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Status Year Parent_department Organisation Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2022 Attorney General’s Departments Attorney General’s Office 45 45 51580 51250
In post 2022 Attorney General’s Departments Crown Prosecution Service 7040 6565 41400 38000
In post 2022 Attorney General’s Departments Government Legal Department 2630 2450 54200 51830
In post 2022 Attorney General’s Departments HM Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate 30 30 58800 58020
In post 2022 Attorney General’s Departments Serious Fraud Office 460 445 47240 41370
In post 2022 Cabinet Office Cabinet Office (excl. agencies) 9930 9745 47220 40600
In post 2022 Cabinet Office Crown Commercial Service 810 790 40080 38600
In post 2022 Cabinet Office Government Property Agency 310 305 50830 49700
In post 2022 Chancellor’s other departments Government Actuary’s Department 225 210 65910 57250
In post 2022 Chancellor’s other departments National Savings and Investments 200 200 50940 46110
In post 2022 Charity Commission Charity Commission 465 440 34000 29160
In post 2022 Competition and Markets Authority Competition and Markets Authority 860 835 61280 57000
In post 2022 Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service 1030 955 33290 30950
In post 2022 Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Companies House 1175 1090 30980 25100
In post 2022 Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (excl. agencies) 6010 5880 48830 49080
In post 2022 Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Intellectual Property Office 1715 1620 38380 32100
In post 2022 Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Met Office 2165 2060 39640 39650
In post 2022 Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy The Insolvency Service 1720 1635 33110 29610
In post 2022 Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy UK Space Agency 260 260 45940 40220
In post 2022 Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport 2010 1980 46970 51730
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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 2023-02-14, 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.
Organisation Executive Agencies, Ministerial and Non-Ministerial Departments, Crown Non-departmental Public Bodies.
On 30 September 2021, the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government changed it’s name to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities.
On 1 October 2021, Public Health England was dissolved and its staff were transferred into either the newly created UK Health Security Agency, the NHS or the Department for Health and Social Care (excl. agencies). In addition to this the DHSC have been offboarding Test and Trace staff as well as onboarding the former PHE staff onto their system and so caution should be advised when interpretting data at DHSC as they are currently undertaking data cleansing exercises. PHE only includes entrants and leavers up to 30 September 2021 and UKHSA only inlcudes entrants and leavers from 1 October to 31 March 2022.
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).