Civil Service Statistics data browser (2023)

Data preview: All civil servants / Profession_of_post / Sex / Responsibility_level_grouped

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Status Year Profession_of_post Sex Responsibility_level_grouped Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2023 Commercial Female AA/AO 230 210 23650 22500
In post 2023 Commercial Female EO 450 420 28030 27470
In post 2023 Commercial Female G6/G7 1090 1055 62810 60870
In post 2023 Commercial Female SCS level 115 110 107840 100640
In post 2023 Commercial Female SEO/HEO 2105 2015 38220 38210
In post 2023 Commercial Female Unknown 100 95 39710 41780
In post 2023 Commercial Male AA/AO 180 170 23500 22500
In post 2023 Commercial Male EO 305 300 27850 27400
In post 2023 Commercial Male G6/G7 1180 1165 65110 65500
In post 2023 Commercial Male SCS level 180 175 118820 117870
In post 2023 Commercial Male SEO/HEO 1560 1535 38980 38470
In post 2023 Commercial Male Unknown 95 90 45860 43360
In post 2023 Communications Female AA/AO 105 95 22910 22360
In post 2023 Communications Female EO 300 280 28490 28030
In post 2023 Communications Female G6/G7 660 635 59770 58200
In post 2023 Communications Female SCS level 50 50 86700 81600
In post 2023 Communications Female SEO/HEO 1355 1285 39070 39430
In post 2023 Communications Female Unknown 15 15 [c] [c]
In post 2023 Communications Male AA/AO 70 70 23430 22490
In post 2023 Communications Male EO 215 205 28660 28250
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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).
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.
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.
Sex Self reported sex.
"Unknown" accounts for employees who were recorded with an unknown sex.
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).