Civil Service Statistics data browser (2023)

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

Status Year Responsibility_level_grouped Ethnicity Parent_department Profession_of_post Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2023 AA/AO Asian Attorney General’s Departments Commercial [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA/AO Asian Attorney General’s Departments Communications [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA/AO Asian Attorney General’s Departments Counter Fraud [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA/AO Asian Attorney General’s Departments Digital, Data and Technology [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA/AO Asian Attorney General’s Departments Finance 15 10 [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA/AO Asian Attorney General’s Departments Human Resources [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA/AO Asian Attorney General’s Departments Knowledge and Information Management [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA/AO Asian Attorney General’s Departments Legal [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA/AO Asian Attorney General’s Departments Operational Delivery 225 210 23270 24430
In post 2023 AA/AO Asian Attorney General’s Departments Other [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA/AO Asian Attorney General’s Departments Policy [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA/AO Asian Attorney General’s Departments Property [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA/AO Asian Attorney General’s Departments Security [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA/AO Asian Attorney General’s Departments Statistics [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA/AO Asian Cabinet Office Commercial [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA/AO Asian Cabinet Office Communications [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA/AO Asian Cabinet Office Digital, Data and Technology [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA/AO Asian Cabinet Office Finance [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA/AO Asian Cabinet Office Human Resources [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA/AO Asian Cabinet Office Knowledge and Information Management [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 2023-07-29, 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).
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.
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.
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).