Civil Service Statistics data browser (2023)

Data preview: All civil servants / Age / Sex / Responsibility_level_grouped / Responsibility_level_ungrouped

Status Year Age Sex Responsibility_level_grouped Responsibility_level_ungrouped Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2023 16-19 Female AA/AO AA 130 125 22010 23230
In post 2023 16-19 Female AA/AO AO 445 430 23550 22520
In post 2023 16-19 Female EO EO 85 85 27060 26900
In post 2023 16-19 Female SEO/HEO HEO [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 16-19 Female Unknown Unknown 50 45 20700 19090
In post 2023 16-19 Male AA/AO AA 130 120 21370 22180
In post 2023 16-19 Male AA/AO AO 460 450 23130 22500
In post 2023 16-19 Male EO EO 85 85 26820 26000
In post 2023 16-19 Male SEO/HEO HEO 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2023 16-19 Male Unknown Unknown 60 60 20520 19090
In post 2023 20-29 Female AA/AO AA 1665 1585 22550 23230
In post 2023 20-29 Female AA/AO AO 12770 12300 24640 22520
In post 2023 20-29 Female EO EO 12055 11855 28570 28120
In post 2023 20-29 Female G6/G7 G6 165 160 67530 66700
In post 2023 20-29 Female G6/G7 G7 2730 2720 55200 55020
In post 2023 20-29 Female SCS level SCS level 10 10 [c] [c]
In post 2023 20-29 Female SEO/HEO HEO 9940 9880 33860 33990
In post 2023 20-29 Female SEO/HEO SEO 4395 4375 41560 41550
In post 2023 20-29 Female Unknown Unknown 3975 3875 26050 24570
In post 2023 20-29 Male AA/AO AA 1380 1360 22510 23230
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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 2023-07-28, 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).
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.
Sex Self reported sex.
"Unknown" accounts for employees who were recorded with an unknown sex.
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).