Civil Service Statistics data browser (2022)

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Status Year Responsibility_level_grouped Ethnicity Function_of_post Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2022 AA/AO Asian Analysis 25 25 [c] [c]
In post 2022 AA/AO Asian Commercial 10 10 [c] [c]
In post 2022 AA/AO Asian Communications 40 40 21470 21250
In post 2022 AA/AO Asian Counter Fraud 345 295 23550 24250
In post 2022 AA/AO Asian Debt 650 555 22300 21260
In post 2022 AA/AO Asian Digital, Data & Technology 40 40 22500 21630
In post 2022 AA/AO Asian Finance 120 105 21900 21250
In post 2022 AA/AO Asian Grants Management 30 25 [c] [c]
In post 2022 AA/AO Asian Human Resources 75 65 21920 21250
In post 2022 AA/AO Asian Internal Audit [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2022 AA/AO Asian Legal 190 170 22980 23770
In post 2022 AA/AO Asian No function 5370 4750 22430 21260
In post 2022 AA/AO Asian Project Delivery 60 45 23590 23460
In post 2022 AA/AO Asian Property 45 40 23650 22130
In post 2022 AA/AO Asian Security 130 130 25060 22900
In post 2022 AA/AO Asian Unknown 1375 1225 23320 22460
In post 2022 AA/AO Black Analysis 15 15 [c] [c]
In post 2022 AA/AO Black Commercial 10 10 [c] [c]
In post 2022 AA/AO Black Communications 15 15 [c] [c]
In post 2022 AA/AO Black Counter Fraud 165 140 24010 25110
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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).
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.
Function_of_post Functions relate to the post occupied by the person and are not dependent on qualifications the individual may have.
Home Office, Welsh Government and Royal Fleet Auxiliary did not report any functions information for their employees.
Of the 20 bodies under the Scottish Government, 16 did not report any functions information for their employees.
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.
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).