Civil Service Statistics data browser (2023)

Data preview: All civil servants / Function_of_post / Ethnicity / Sex

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Status Year Function_of_post Ethnicity Sex Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2023 Analysis Asian Female 400 385 43260 39300
In post 2023 Analysis Asian Male 395 390 43480 39790
In post 2023 Analysis Asian Unknown [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Analysis Black Female 150 145 39580 36380
In post 2023 Analysis Black Male 115 110 39990 38000
In post 2023 Analysis Black Unknown [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Analysis Mixed Female 125 120 44820 42160
In post 2023 Analysis Mixed Male 140 135 43460 39760
In post 2023 Analysis Mixed Unknown [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Analysis Other ethnicity Female 45 40 48220 43320
In post 2023 Analysis Other ethnicity Male 40 40 47890 39840
In post 2023 Analysis Other ethnicity Unknown [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Analysis Undeclared Female 80 80 43990 39890
In post 2023 Analysis Undeclared Male 250 245 47900 49260
In post 2023 Analysis Undeclared Unknown [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Analysis Unknown Female 480 465 40680 37870
In post 2023 Analysis Unknown Male 715 705 42490 39040
In post 2023 Analysis Unknown Unknown [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Analysis White Female 3475 3255 44450 39890
In post 2023 Analysis White Male 3920 3840 46930 43000
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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).
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.
Sex Self reported sex.
"Unknown" accounts for employees who were recorded with an unknown sex.
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).