Civil Service Statistics data browser (2023)

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

Status Year Parent_department Responsibility_level_ungrouped Age Responsibility_level_grouped Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments AA 20-29 AA/AO [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments AA 40-49 AA/AO [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments AA 50-59 AA/AO [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments AA 60-64 AA/AO [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments AA 65+ AA/AO [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments AO 16-19 AA/AO 55 55 21130 20980
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments AO 20-29 AA/AO 565 560 23000 22870
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments AO 30-39 AA/AO 220 195 23400 22870
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments AO 40-49 AA/AO 275 240 23370 22870
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments AO 50-59 AA/AO 365 335 23490 22870
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments AO 60-64 AA/AO 120 105 23720 22870
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments AO 65+ AA/AO 40 30 24000 24480
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments EO 16-19 EO [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments EO 20-29 EO 625 620 28090 27760
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments EO 30-39 EO 330 315 28200 27800
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments EO 40-49 EO 380 345 28610 28540
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments EO 50-59 EO 520 480 29180 28850
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments EO 60-64 EO 105 90 29250 28850
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments EO 65+ EO 30 30 29160 28850
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments G6 20-29 G6/G7 [c] [c] [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 2023-07-27, 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.
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.
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).