Civil Service Statistics data browser (2023)

Data preview: All civil servants / Profession_of_post / Sexual_orientation / Ethnicity / Parent_department

Status Year Profession_of_post Sexual_orientation Ethnicity Parent_department Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2023 Commercial Heterosexual / straight Asian Attorney General’s Departments [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Commercial Heterosexual / straight Asian Cabinet Office 60 60 65770 65760
In post 2023 Commercial Heterosexual / straight Asian Chancellor’s other departments [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Commercial Heterosexual / straight Asian Charity Commission [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Commercial Heterosexual / straight Asian Competition and Markets Authority [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Commercial Heterosexual / straight Asian Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Commercial Heterosexual / straight Asian Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Commercial Heterosexual / straight Asian Department for Education 25 25 [c] [c]
In post 2023 Commercial Heterosexual / straight Asian Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 10 10 [c] [c]
In post 2023 Commercial Heterosexual / straight Asian Department for International Trade 10 10 [c] [c]
In post 2023 Commercial Heterosexual / straight Asian Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Commercial Heterosexual / straight Asian Department for Transport 20 20 [c] [c]
In post 2023 Commercial Heterosexual / straight Asian Department for Work and Pensions 50 45 39110 37080
In post 2023 Commercial Heterosexual / straight Asian Department of Health and Social Care 20 20 [c] [c]
In post 2023 Commercial Heterosexual / straight Asian Estyn [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Commercial Heterosexual / straight Asian Food Standards Agency [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Commercial Heterosexual / straight Asian Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2023 Commercial Heterosexual / straight Asian HM Land Registry [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Commercial Heterosexual / straight Asian HM Revenue and Customs [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Commercial Heterosexual / straight Asian HM Treasury [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.
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.
Ethnicity Self reported ethnicity. "Undeclared" accounts for employees who have actively declared that they do not want to disclose their ethnicity and "Unknown" accounts for employees who have not made an active declaration about their ethnicity.
Sexual_orientation Self reported sexual orientation.
"Undeclared" accounts for employees who have actively declared that they do not want to disclose their sexual orientation and "Unknown" accounts for employees who have not made an active declaration about their sexual orientation.
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).