Civil Service Statistics data browser (2023)

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Status Year Ethnicity Responsibility_level_grouped Profession_of_post Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2023 Asian AA/AO Commercial 20 20 [c] [c]
In post 2023 Asian AA/AO Communications 15 15 [c] [c]
In post 2023 Asian AA/AO Corporate Finance [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Asian AA/AO Counter Fraud 215 185 24100 25610
In post 2023 Asian AA/AO Digital, Data and Technology 25 25 [c] [c]
In post 2023 Asian AA/AO Economics 10 10 [c] [c]
In post 2023 Asian AA/AO Finance 70 65 24150 24280
In post 2023 Asian AA/AO Geography [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Asian AA/AO Human Resources 55 55 23990 22520
In post 2023 Asian AA/AO Inspector of Education and Training [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Asian AA/AO Intelligence Analysis 15 15 [c] [c]
In post 2023 Asian AA/AO Internal Audit [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Asian AA/AO International Trade [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Asian AA/AO Knowledge and Information Management 20 15 [c] [c]
In post 2023 Asian AA/AO Legal 10 10 [c] [c]
In post 2023 Asian AA/AO Medicine 30 30 25640 24680
In post 2023 Asian AA/AO Operational Delivery 7225 6380 23730 22520
In post 2023 Asian AA/AO Operational Research [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Asian AA/AO Other 480 415 22380 21690
In post 2023 Asian AA/AO Planning [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 2023-07-26, 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.
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.
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).