Civil Service Statistics data browser (2023)

Data preview: All civil servants / Ethnicity / Sexual_orientation / Parent_department

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Status Year Ethnicity Sexual_orientation Parent_department Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2023 Asian Heterosexual / straight Attorney General’s Departments 1045 990 42610 40800
In post 2023 Asian Heterosexual / straight Cabinet Office 540 530 46930 41870
In post 2023 Asian Heterosexual / straight Chancellor’s other departments 45 45 50760 45610
In post 2023 Asian Heterosexual / straight Charity Commission 10 10 [c] [c]
In post 2023 Asian Heterosexual / straight Competition and Markets Authority 115 110 49150 38190
In post 2023 Asian Heterosexual / straight Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy 815 800 42610 41060
In post 2023 Asian Heterosexual / straight Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport 135 135 47020 45980
In post 2023 Asian Heterosexual / straight Department for Education 770 750 41630 37720
In post 2023 Asian Heterosexual / straight Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 455 445 37170 33830
In post 2023 Asian Heterosexual / straight Department for International Trade 275 275 45870 41550
In post 2023 Asian Heterosexual / straight Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities 275 265 43550 37560
In post 2023 Asian Heterosexual / straight Department for Transport 630 610 39600 35760
In post 2023 Asian Heterosexual / straight Department for Work and Pensions 6340 5810 29710 28120
In post 2023 Asian Heterosexual / straight Department of Health and Social Care 935 895 43980 38120
In post 2023 Asian Heterosexual / straight Estyn [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Asian Heterosexual / straight Food Standards Agency 60 60 41070 37720
In post 2023 Asian Heterosexual / straight Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office 410 400 44820 38550
In post 2023 Asian Heterosexual / straight HM Land Registry 165 155 32450 28080
In post 2023 Asian Heterosexual / straight HM Revenue and Customs 5060 4825 34730 32540
In post 2023 Asian Heterosexual / straight HM Treasury 290 285 44940 40370
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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).
Parent_department Government Department, total figures for both Ministerial and Non-Ministerial Departments include all of their Executive Agencies.
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.
Sexual_orientation Self reported sexual orientation.
"Undeclared" accounts for employees who have actively declared that they do not want to disclose their sexual orientation and "Unknown" accounts for employees who have not made an active declaration about their sexual orientation.
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).