Civil Service Statistics data browser (2023)

Data preview: All civil servants / Parent_department / Region_london

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Status Year Parent_department Region_london Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments London 4830 4560 51090 52790
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments Outside London 5900 5500 41370 38760
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments Overseas [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Cabinet Office London 5585 5500 51850 51290
In post 2023 Cabinet Office Outside London 4465 4335 44760 38460
In post 2023 Cabinet Office Unknown 175 170 42980 35740
In post 2023 Chancellor’s other departments London 350 335 62560 55180
In post 2023 Chancellor’s other departments Outside London 75 75 50600 45450
In post 2023 Charity Commission London 80 80 45710 41370
In post 2023 Charity Commission Outside London 420 400 33910 30170
In post 2023 Competition and Markets Authority London 795 770 62880 58330
In post 2023 Competition and Markets Authority Outside London 115 115 57800 55950
In post 2023 Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy London 5735 5600 51130 54710
In post 2023 Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Outside London 8650 8200 37800 35230
In post 2023 Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Overseas 30 30 34770 37420
In post 2023 Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport London 1640 1610 50180 53030
In post 2023 Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Outside London 295 295 42320 36100
In post 2023 Department for Education London 2405 2310 52210 55020
In post 2023 Department for Education Outside London 6080 5870 42810 37880
In post 2023 Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs London 2645 2575 46160 40270
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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".
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).