Civil Service Statistics data browser (2023)

Data preview: All civil servants / Parent_department / Responsibility_level_ungrouped / Region_ITL2 / Region_ITL3

Status Year Parent_department Responsibility_level_ungrouped Region_ITL2 Region_ITL3 Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments AA Cumbria East Cumbria [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments AA Hampshire and Isle of Wight Portsmouth [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments AA Inner London - West Westminster 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments AA Leicestershire, Rutland and Northamptonshire Leicester [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments AA Northumberland, and Tyne and Wear Tyneside [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments AA West Yorkshire Leeds [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments AO Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Hertfordshire CC 40 40 23990 24480
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments AO Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Berkshire 30 25 23920 24480
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments AO Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Buckinghamshire [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments AO Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Cornwall and Isles of Scilly 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments AO Cumbria East Cumbria 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments AO Cumbria West Cumbria [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments AO Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire North Nottinghamshire [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments AO Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire Nottingham 80 75 22390 22870
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments AO Devon Devon CC 15 15 22370 22870
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments AO East Anglia Cambridgeshire CC [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments AO East Anglia Norwich and East Norfolk 30 25 22380 22870
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments AO East Anglia Suffolk CC 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments AO East Wales Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan 55 50 23040 22870
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments AO East Wales Flintshire and Wrexham 15 15 22850 22870
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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_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.
Region_ITL2 Workplace postcode data are used to derive geographical information using the International Territorial Level (ITL) classification standard.
Following the UK’s withdrawal from the EU, a new UK-managed international statistical geography - International Territorial Levels (ITL) - was introduced from 1st January 2021, replacing the former NUTS classification. They align with international standards, enabling comparability both over time and internationally. To ensure continued alignment, the ITLs mirror the NUTS system. They also follow a similar review timetable - every three years.
ITL 2 divides into Northern Ireland, counties in England (most grouped), groups of districts in Greater London, groups of unitary authorities in Wales, groups of council areas in Scotland.
Region_ITL3 Workplace postcode data are used to derive geographical information using the International Territorial Level (ITL) classification standard.
Following the UK’s withdrawal from the EU, a new UK-managed international statistical geography - International Territorial Levels (ITL) - was introduced from 1st January 2021, replacing the former NUTS classification. They align with international standards, enabling comparability both over time and internationally. To ensure continued alignment, the ITLs mirror the NUTS system. They also follow a similar review timetable - every three years.
ITL 3 divides into counties, unitary authorities, or districts in England (some grouped), groups of unitary authorities in Wales, groups of council areas in Scotland, groups of districts in Northern Ireland.
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).