Civil Service Statistics data browser (2023)

Data preview: All civil servants / Region_london / Region_ITL1 / Responsibility_level_grouped / Parent_department

Status Year Region_london Region_ITL1 Responsibility_level_grouped Parent_department Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2023 London London AA/AO Attorney General’s Departments 415 390 24180 24480
In post 2023 London London AA/AO Cabinet Office 100 100 25330 25280
In post 2023 London London AA/AO Chancellor’s other departments 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2023 London London AA/AO Charity Commission [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 London London AA/AO Competition and Markets Authority 25 25 23320 23200
In post 2023 London London AA/AO Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy 130 120 25510 25810
In post 2023 London London AA/AO Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2023 London London AA/AO Department for Education 25 25 25040 25120
In post 2023 London London AA/AO Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 60 55 25360 25340
In post 2023 London London AA/AO Department for International Trade 20 20 28660 28660
In post 2023 London London AA/AO Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities 25 25 27890 27870
In post 2023 London London AA/AO Department for Transport 160 145 31790 34390
In post 2023 London London AA/AO Department for Work and Pensions 1350 1170 25190 25610
In post 2023 London London AA/AO Department of Health and Social Care 200 180 24620 24750
In post 2023 London London AA/AO Food Standards Agency [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 London London AA/AO Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office 185 180 29330 28950
In post 2023 London London AA/AO HM Land Registry 45 45 26770 26760
In post 2023 London London AA/AO HM Revenue and Customs 1040 945 26750 26920
In post 2023 London London AA/AO HM Treasury 30 30 24070 24030
In post 2023 London London AA/AO Home Office 2010 1830 25990 26400
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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).
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.
Region_london Workplace postcode data are used to derive geographical information using the International Territorial Level (ITL) classification standard.
Region_london groups the ITL classifications into "London", "Outside London": all UK regions excluding London, "Overseas", and "Unknown".
Region_ITL1 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 1 divides into Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, and the 9 statistical regions of England.
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).