Civil Service Statistics data browser (2023)

Data preview: All civil servants / Parent_department / Profession_of_post

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Status Year Parent_department Profession_of_post Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments Commercial 40 35 40900 38940
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments Communications 95 95 41690 40540
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments Corporate Finance 10 10 47560 40360
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments Counter Fraud 235 230 47500 41400
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments Digital, Data and Technology 205 200 45430 40590
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments Finance 235 220 33900 28200
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments Human Resources 260 250 40370 34170
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments Intelligence Analysis 10 10 [c] [c]
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments Internal Audit 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments Knowledge and Information Management 85 80 42500 38940
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments Legal 5610 5220 57720 56450
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments Operational Delivery 3575 3340 28370 26900
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments Other 55 50 42560 30440
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments Policy 145 140 51560 52880
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments Project Delivery 105 100 41730 38940
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments Property 35 35 36490 33050
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments Security 30 30 37490 32660
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments Statistics [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Cabinet Office Commercial 1990 1960 64790 65500
In post 2023 Cabinet Office Communications 185 185 49070 41870
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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.
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.
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).