Civil Service Statistics data browser (2022)

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

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Status Year Sex Responsibility_level_grouped Profession_of_post Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2022 Female AA/AO Commercial 170 155 22420 21640
In post 2022 Female AA/AO Communications 120 110 22280 21790
In post 2022 Female AA/AO Corporate Finance [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2022 Female AA/AO Counter Fraud 1005 810 22530 21260
In post 2022 Female AA/AO Digital, Data and Technology 280 265 21790 21280
In post 2022 Female AA/AO Economics 30 30 22550 22640
In post 2022 Female AA/AO Finance 660 570 21990 21380
In post 2022 Female AA/AO Geography 25 25 [c] [c]
In post 2022 Female AA/AO Human Resources 905 805 21960 21380
In post 2022 Female AA/AO Intelligence Analysis 75 65 23320 21960
In post 2022 Female AA/AO Internal Audit 15 15 [c] [c]
In post 2022 Female AA/AO International Trade [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2022 Female AA/AO Knowledge and Information Management 235 220 22240 21380
In post 2022 Female AA/AO Legal 160 130 22190 22080
In post 2022 Female AA/AO Medicine 315 285 22810 23280
In post 2022 Female AA/AO Operational Delivery 60250 51215 22300 21260
In post 2022 Female AA/AO Operational Research 20 20 [c] [c]
In post 2022 Female AA/AO Other 6460 5800 21510 21260
In post 2022 Female AA/AO Planning 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2022 Female AA/AO Policy 420 395 23600 23720
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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.
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.
Sex Self reported sex.
“Unknown” accounts for employees who were recorded with an unknown sex.
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).