Civil Service Statistics data browser (2023)

Data preview: All civil servants / Parent_department / Age / Ethnicity / Region_london

Status Year Parent_department Age Ethnicity Region_london Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments 16-19 Asian London 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments 16-19 Asian Outside London 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments 16-19 Black London [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments 16-19 Black Outside London [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments 16-19 Mixed London [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments 16-19 Mixed Outside London [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments 16-19 Other ethnicity London [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments 16-19 Other ethnicity Outside London [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments 16-19 Unknown London [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments 16-19 Unknown Outside London [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments 16-19 White London [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments 16-19 White Outside London 35 35 21280 20980
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments 20-29 Asian London 140 140 30160 27760
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments 20-29 Asian Outside London 110 105 28100 24950
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments 20-29 Black London 70 70 28890 27760
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments 20-29 Black Outside London 30 30 [c] [c]
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments 20-29 Mixed London 45 45 31940 28540
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments 20-29 Mixed Outside London 40 40 30310 27400
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments 20-29 Other ethnicity London 15 15 [c] [c]
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments 20-29 Other ethnicity Outside London 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.
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.
Age Age in 10 year bands. Age is calculated as at the reference date in each year (31st March), so entrants or leavers may have been up to one year younger at the date of exit or entry.
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).