Civil Service Statistics data browser (2022)

Data preview: All civil servants / Responsibility_level_grouped / Profession_of_post / Responsibility_level_ungrouped

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Status Year Responsibility_level_grouped Profession_of_post Responsibility_level_ungrouped Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2022 AA/AO Commercial AA 35 30 22320 21640
In post 2022 AA/AO Commercial AO 290 265 22590 21840
In post 2022 AA/AO Communications AA 15 15 20400 20060
In post 2022 AA/AO Communications AO 195 185 22470 21830
In post 2022 AA/AO Corporate Finance AO [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2022 AA/AO Counter Fraud AA 25 20 20380 20480
In post 2022 AA/AO Counter Fraud AO 1470 1255 22530 21260
In post 2022 AA/AO Digital, Data and Technology AA 85 80 19600 19380
In post 2022 AA/AO Digital, Data and Technology AO 585 565 22240 21480
In post 2022 AA/AO Economics AA [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2022 AA/AO Economics AO 75 75 22130 21910
In post 2022 AA/AO Finance AA 45 40 19800 19810
In post 2022 AA/AO Finance AO 940 840 22100 21380
In post 2022 AA/AO Geography AA [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2022 AA/AO Geography AO 70 65 20600 20420
In post 2022 AA/AO Human Resources AA 65 60 20120 19810
In post 2022 AA/AO Human Resources AO 1165 1065 22080 21380
In post 2022 AA/AO Intelligence Analysis AA [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2022 AA/AO Intelligence Analysis AO 115 105 23310 21810
In post 2022 AA/AO Internal Audit AO 30 25 27680 25520
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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.
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.
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.
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).