Civil Service Statistics data browser (2023)

Data preview: All civil servants / Function_of_post / Ethnicity / Organisation / Parent_department

Status Year Function_of_post Ethnicity Organisation Parent_department Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2023 Analysis Asian Active Travel England Department for Transport [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Analysis Asian Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Analysis Asian Attorney General’s Office Attorney General’s Departments [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Analysis Asian Building Digital UK Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Analysis Asian Cabinet Office (excl. agencies) Cabinet Office [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Analysis Asian Central Civil Service Fast Stream Cabinet Office 10 10 [c] [c]
In post 2023 Analysis Asian Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2023 Analysis Asian Charity Commission Charity Commission [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Analysis Asian Companies House Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Analysis Asian Competition and Markets Authority Competition and Markets Authority 10 10 [c] [c]
In post 2023 Analysis Asian Defence Electronics and Components Agency Ministry of Defence [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Analysis Asian Defence Science and Technology Laboratory Ministry of Defence 10 10 [c] [c]
In post 2023 Analysis Asian Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (excl. agencies) Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy 30 30 42780 34670
In post 2023 Analysis Asian Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (excl. agencies) Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport 15 15 [c] [c]
In post 2023 Analysis Asian Department for Education (excl. agencies) Department for Education 45 45 43860 43250
In post 2023 Analysis Asian Department for International Trade Department for International Trade 30 30 50050 55370
In post 2023 Analysis Asian Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (excl. agencies) Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities 30 30 45180 44180
In post 2023 Analysis Asian Department for Transport (excl. agencies) Department for Transport 30 30 47980 43750
In post 2023 Analysis Asian Department for Work and Pensions (excl. agencies) Department for Work and Pensions 40 40 41510 39150
In post 2023 Analysis Asian Department of Health and Social Care (excl. agencies) Department of Health and Social Care 10 10 [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).
Parent_department Government Department, total figures for both Ministerial and Non-Ministerial Departments include all of their Executive Agencies.
Organisation Executive Agencies, Ministerial and Non-Ministerial Departments, Crown Non-departmental Public Bodies.
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.
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).