Civil Service Statistics data browser (2023)

Data preview: All civil servants / Age / Profession_of_post / Function_of_post / Parent_department

Status	Year	Age	Profession_of_post	Function_of_post	Parent_department	Headcount	FTE	Mean_salary	Median_salary
In post	2023	16-19	Commercial	Commercial	Home Office	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2023	16-19	Commercial	Commercial	Ministry of Defence	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2023	16-19	Commercial	Commercial	Scottish Government	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2023	16-19	Communications	Communications	Chancellor’s other departments	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2023	16-19	Communications	Communications	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2023	16-19	Communications	Communications	Department of Health and Social Care	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2023	16-19	Communications	Communications	HM Revenue and Customs	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2023	16-19	Communications	Communications	Ministry of Defence	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2023	16-19	Communications	Communications	Northern Ireland Office	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2023	16-19	Communications	Digital, Data & Technology	Cabinet Office	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2023	16-19	Communications	No function	Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2023	16-19	Counter Fraud	Counter Fraud	Department for Work and Pensions	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2023	16-19	Counter Fraud	Counter Fraud	HM Revenue and Customs	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2023	16-19	Counter Fraud	No function	Home Office	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2023	16-19	Digital, Data and Technology	Digital, Data & Technology	Attorney General’s Departments	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2023	16-19	Digital, Data and Technology	Digital, Data & Technology	Cabinet Office	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2023	16-19	Digital, Data and Technology	Digital, Data & Technology	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2023	16-19	Digital, Data and Technology	Digital, Data & Technology	Department for Transport	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2023	16-19	Digital, Data and Technology	Digital, Data & Technology	Department for Work and Pensions	10	10	24260	21690
In post	2023	16-19	Digital, Data and Technology	Digital, Data & Technology	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office	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.
Function_of_post	Functions relate to the post occupied by the person and are not dependent on qualifications the individual may have.
	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.
Profession_of_post	Professions relate to the post occupied by the person and are not dependent on qualifications the individual may have.
	Of the 20 bodies under the Scottish Government, 16 did not report any professions information for their employees.
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).