Civil Service Statistics data browser (2023)

Data preview: All civil servants / Parent_department / Responsibility_level_grouped / Organisation / Responsibility_level_ungrouped

Status Year Parent_department Responsibility_level_grouped Organisation Responsibility_level_ungrouped Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments AA/AO Attorney General’s Office AO 10 10 [c] [c]
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments AA/AO Crown Prosecution Service AA 10 10 20520 21050
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments AA/AO Crown Prosecution Service AO 1580 1460 23180 22870
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments AA/AO Government Legal Department AO 40 40 24860 24770
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments AA/AO HM Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate AO [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments AA/AO Serious Fraud Office AA [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments AA/AO Serious Fraud Office AO 10 10 24940 24940
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments EO Attorney General’s Office EO [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments EO Crown Prosecution Service EO 1560 1460 28420 28200
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments EO Government Legal Department EO 355 340 29230 28170
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments EO Serious Fraud Office EO 75 75 28390 27280
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments G6/G7 Attorney General’s Office G6 10 10 71410 71360
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments G6/G7 Attorney General’s Office G7 10 10 [c] [c]
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments G6/G7 Crown Prosecution Service G6 245 245 75410 73160
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments G6/G7 Crown Prosecution Service G7 2885 2670 57090 56450
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments G6/G7 Government Legal Department G6 875 795 68940 67600
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments G6/G7 Government Legal Department G7 900 840 53520 52020
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments G6/G7 HM Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate G6 [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments G6/G7 HM Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate G7 15 15 58080 58480
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments G6/G7 Serious Fraud Office G6 60 55 72780 71920
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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 2023-07-29, 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.
Responsibility_level_grouped With the exception of the centrally managed Senior Civil Service, government departments have delegated pay and grading. For statistical purposes departments are asked to map their grades to a common framework by responsibility level.
This table shows staff in their substantive responsibility level unless on temporary promotion in which case staff are recorded at the higher responsibility level.
Responsibility_level_grouped combines the mapped grades into five broad responsibility levels. This is the headline measure for responsibility level for the Civil Service and is consistent with the published National Statistics.
Responsibility_level_ungrouped With the exception of the centrally managed Senior Civil Service, government departments have delegated pay and grading. For statistical purposes departments are asked to map their grades to a common framework by responsibility level.
This table shows staff in their substantive responsibility level unless on temporary promotion in which case staff are recorded at the higher responsibility level.
Responsibility_level_ungrouped shows the mapped grades at a higher level of detail, however not all Government Departments / bodies have distinct grades that map exactly to these levels so figures should be considered as approximations and treated with caution.
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).