Civil Service Statistics data browser (2022)

Data preview: All civil servants / Profession_of_post / Age / Parent_department / Organisation

Status Year Profession_of_post Age Parent_department Organisation Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2022 Commercial 16-19 Attorney General’s Departments Serious Fraud Office [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2022 Commercial 16-19 Department for Transport Department for Transport (excl. agencies) [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2022 Commercial 16-19 Home Office Home Office [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2022 Commercial 16-19 Ministry of Defence Defence Equipment and Support [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2022 Commercial 16-19 Ministry of Defence Ministry of Defence (excl. agencies) [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2022 Commercial 16-19 Scottish Government Scottish Prison Service [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2022 Commercial 20-29 Attorney General’s Departments Crown Prosecution Service 10 10 [c] [c]
In post 2022 Commercial 20-29 Attorney General’s Departments Serious Fraud Office [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2022 Commercial 20-29 Cabinet Office Crown Commercial Service 75 75 31550 30420
In post 2022 Commercial 20-29 Chancellor’s other departments National Savings and Investments [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2022 Commercial 20-29 Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (excl. agencies) [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2022 Commercial 20-29 Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Intellectual Property Office [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2022 Commercial 20-29 Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Met Office 10 10 [c] [c]
In post 2022 Commercial 20-29 Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy The Insolvency Service [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2022 Commercial 20-29 Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport 15 15 35610 34020
In post 2022 Commercial 20-29 Department for Education Department for Education (excl. agencies) 60 60 32430 29360
In post 2022 Commercial 20-29 Department for Education Education and Skills Funding Agency 20 20 31280 30090
In post 2022 Commercial 20-29 Department for Education Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2022 Commercial 20-29 Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2022 Commercial 20-29 Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (excl. agencies) 15 15 33170 35900
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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.
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.
Profession_of_post Professions relate to the post occupied by the person and are not dependent on qualifications the individual may have.
Cabinet Office (excl agencies) reported profession information for only 60 out of a total 9,930 employees.
Of the 20 bodies under the Scottish Government, 16 did not report any professions information for their employees.
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).