Civil Service Statistics data browser (2023)

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

Status Year Age Parent_department Responsibility_level_ungrouped Organisation Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2023 16-19 Attorney General’s Departments AO Attorney General’s Office [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 16-19 Attorney General’s Departments AO Crown Prosecution Service 50 50 20950 20980
In post 2023 16-19 Attorney General’s Departments AO Government Legal Department [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 16-19 Attorney General’s Departments EO Crown Prosecution Service [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 16-19 Attorney General’s Departments EO Serious Fraud Office [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 16-19 Cabinet Office AO Cabinet Office (excl. agencies) [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 16-19 Cabinet Office EO Cabinet Office (excl. agencies) 10 10 25400 24610
In post 2023 16-19 Chancellor’s other departments AO National Savings and Investments [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 16-19 Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy AA Met Office 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2023 16-19 Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy AO Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (excl. agencies) [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 16-19 Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy AO Met Office [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 16-19 Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy AO The Insolvency Service [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 16-19 Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy EO Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 16-19 Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy EO Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (excl. agencies) 10 10 27390 28510
In post 2023 16-19 Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport EO Building Digital UK [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 16-19 Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport EO Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (excl. agencies) [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 16-19 Department for Education AO Department for Education (excl. agencies) [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 16-19 Department for Education EO Department for Education (excl. agencies) 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2023 16-19 Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs AO Animal and Plant Health Agency 15 10 23330 22150
In post 2023 16-19 Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs AO Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (excl. agencies) 5 5 [c] [c]
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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 2023-07-27, with GIT d545f65.

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.
Four 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, 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.
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.
Organisation Executive Agencies, Ministerial and Non-Ministerial Departments, Crown Non-departmental Public Bodies.
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.
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).