Civil Service Statistics data browser (2023)

Data preview: All civil servants / Ethnicity / Region_london / Responsibility_level_grouped / Responsibility_level_ungrouped

Status Year Ethnicity Region_london Responsibility_level_grouped Responsibility_level_ungrouped Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2023 Asian London AA/AO AA 250 225 24120 23500
In post 2023 Asian London AA/AO AO 2090 1860 26570 26100
In post 2023 Asian London EO EO 4305 3990 31230 31310
In post 2023 Asian London G6/G7 G6 670 650 71180 69370
In post 2023 Asian London G6/G7 G7 2105 2055 58550 57260
In post 2023 Asian London SCS level SCS level 240 235 92260 84080
In post 2023 Asian London SEO/HEO HEO 3060 2985 36850 36180
In post 2023 Asian London SEO/HEO SEO 2135 2090 44200 43650
In post 2023 Asian London Unknown Unknown 205 195 33730 33050
In post 2023 Asian Outside London AA/AO AA 415 365 21790 21380
In post 2023 Asian Outside London AA/AO AO 6170 5465 22840 22400
In post 2023 Asian Outside London EO EO 6050 5660 28010 28120
In post 2023 Asian Outside London G6/G7 G6 270 260 70450 69490
In post 2023 Asian Outside London G6/G7 G7 1235 1200 55200 54440
In post 2023 Asian Outside London SCS level SCS level 95 90 97980 96200
In post 2023 Asian Outside London SEO/HEO HEO 3180 3065 34160 34400
In post 2023 Asian Outside London SEO/HEO SEO 1850 1805 41980 41760
In post 2023 Asian Outside London Unknown Unknown 805 745 29190 26840
In post 2023 Asian Overseas AA/AO AA [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Asian Overseas AA/AO AO [c] [c] [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 2023-07-28, 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.
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".
Ethnicity Self reported ethnicity. "Undeclared" accounts for employees who have actively declared that they do not want to disclose their ethnicity and "Unknown" accounts for employees who have not made an active declaration about their ethnicity.
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).