Civil Service Statistics data browser (2023)

Data preview: All civil servants / Responsibility_level_grouped / Age / Parent_department / Organisation

Status Year Responsibility_level_grouped Age Parent_department Organisation Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2023 AA/AO 16-19 Attorney General’s Departments Attorney General’s Office [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA/AO 16-19 Attorney General’s Departments Crown Prosecution Service 50 50 20950 20980
In post 2023 AA/AO 16-19 Attorney General’s Departments Government Legal Department [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA/AO 16-19 Cabinet Office Cabinet Office (excl. agencies) [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA/AO 16-19 Chancellor’s other departments National Savings and Investments [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA/AO 16-19 Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (excl. agencies) [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA/AO 16-19 Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Met Office 10 10 [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA/AO 16-19 Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy The Insolvency Service [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA/AO 16-19 Department for Education Department for Education (excl. agencies) [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA/AO 16-19 Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Animal and Plant Health Agency 15 10 23330 22150
In post 2023 AA/AO 16-19 Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (excl. agencies) 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA/AO 16-19 Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Rural Payments Agency 10 10 [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA/AO 16-19 Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Planning Inspectorate [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA/AO 16-19 Department for Transport Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency 80 70 20610 19000
In post 2023 AA/AO 16-19 Department for Transport Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA/AO 16-19 Department for Transport Maritime and Coastguard Agency [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA/AO 16-19 Department for Transport Vehicle Certification Agency [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA/AO 16-19 Department for Work and Pensions Department for Work and Pensions (excl. agencies) 60 60 21950 21690
In post 2023 AA/AO 16-19 Department for Work and Pensions Health and Safety Executive 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA/AO 16-19 Department of Health and Social Care Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency [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.
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.
Age Age in 10 year bands. Age is calculated as at the reference date in each year (31st March), so entrants or leavers may have been up to one year younger at the date of exit or entry.
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).