Civil Service Statistics data browser (2022)

Data preview: All civil servants / Sexual_orientation / Responsibility_level_grouped / Region_london / Sex

Status Year Sexual_orientation Responsibility_level_grouped Region_london Sex Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2022 Heterosexual / straight AA/AO London Female 4250 3805 25240 25110
In post 2022 Heterosexual / straight AA/AO London Male 3270 3175 26910 25330
In post 2022 Heterosexual / straight AA/AO London Unknown [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2022 Heterosexual / straight AA/AO Outside London Female 44695 38455 21900 21260
In post 2022 Heterosexual / straight AA/AO Outside London Male 33990 32585 23550 21490
In post 2022 Heterosexual / straight AA/AO Outside London Unknown [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2022 Heterosexual / straight AA/AO Overseas Female 30 30 22160 21830
In post 2022 Heterosexual / straight AA/AO Overseas Male 25 25 [c] [c]
In post 2022 Heterosexual / straight AA/AO Overseas Unknown [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2022 Heterosexual / straight AA/AO Unknown Female 100 85 22470 21260
In post 2022 Heterosexual / straight AA/AO Unknown Male 35 35 22120 21260
In post 2022 Heterosexual / straight AA/AO Unknown Unknown [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2022 Heterosexual / straight EO London Female 8500 7970 30090 30350
In post 2022 Heterosexual / straight EO London Male 5640 5510 30360 30550
In post 2022 Heterosexual / straight EO London Unknown [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2022 Heterosexual / straight EO Outside London Female 42845 38460 27250 27570
In post 2022 Heterosexual / straight EO Outside London Male 30845 29805 27830 27570
In post 2022 Heterosexual / straight EO Outside London Unknown [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2022 Heterosexual / straight EO Overseas Female 95 95 27840 26930
In post 2022 Heterosexual / straight EO Overseas Male 110 105 27500 26930
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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).
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.
Region_london Workplace postcode data are used to derive geographical information using the International Territorial Level (ITL) classification standard.
Region_london groups the ITL classifications into “London”, “Outside London”: all UK regions excluding London, “Overseas”, and “Unknown”.
Sex Self reported sex.
“Unknown” accounts for employees who were recorded with an unknown sex.
Sexual_orientation Self reported sexual orientation.
“Undeclared” accounts for employees who have actively declared that they do not want to disclose their sexual orientation and “Unknown” accounts for employees who have not made an active declaration about their sexual orientation.
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).