Civil Service Statistics data browser (2023)

Data preview: All civil servants / Profession_of_post / Region_ITL3 / Organisation / Responsibility_level_grouped

Status Year Profession_of_post Region_ITL3 Organisation Responsibility_level_grouped Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2023 Commercial Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire Scottish Prison Service AA/AO [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Commercial Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire Scottish Prison Service EO [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Commercial Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire UK Health Security Agency SEO/HEO [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Commercial Angus and Dundee City Department for Work and Pensions (excl. agencies) SEO/HEO [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Commercial Barking & Dagenham and Havering HM Prison and Probation Service SEO/HEO [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Commercial Barnet HM Prison and Probation Service Unknown [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Commercial Barnet UK Health Security Agency EO [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Commercial Barnet UK Health Security Agency G6/G7 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2023 Commercial Barnet UK Health Security Agency SEO/HEO 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2023 Commercial Barnsley, Doncaster and Rotherham Department for Education (excl. agencies) G6/G7 [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Commercial Barnsley, Doncaster and Rotherham HM Prison and Probation Service EO [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Commercial Barnsley, Doncaster and Rotherham HM Prison and Probation Service SEO/HEO 10 10 [c] [c]
In post 2023 Commercial Bath and North East Somerset, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Defence Equipment and Support AA/AO 110 105 23680 22390
In post 2023 Commercial Bath and North East Somerset, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Defence Equipment and Support EO 40 40 26290 26010
In post 2023 Commercial Bath and North East Somerset, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Defence Equipment and Support G6/G7 210 195 59820 55500
In post 2023 Commercial Bath and North East Somerset, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Defence Equipment and Support SCS level 15 15 97530 96450
In post 2023 Commercial Bath and North East Somerset, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Defence Equipment and Support SEO/HEO 465 445 38150 35940
In post 2023 Commercial Bath and North East Somerset, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Department for Work and Pensions (excl. agencies) SEO/HEO [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Commercial Bath and North East Somerset, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Government Commercial Organisation G6/G7 25 25 69590 67950
In post 2023 Commercial Bath and North East Somerset, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Government Commercial Organisation SCS level 10 10 [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 2023-07-29, 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).
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.
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.
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).