Civil Service Statistics data browser (2023)

Data preview: All civil servants / Responsibility_level_grouped / Ethnicity / Region_ITL3 / Region_ITL2

Status Year Responsibility_level_grouped Ethnicity Region_ITL3 Region_ITL2 Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2023 AA/AO Asian Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire North Eastern Scotland 10 5 [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA/AO Asian Angus and Dundee City Eastern Scotland 25 20 [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA/AO Asian Antrim and Newtownabbey Northern Ireland [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA/AO Asian Ards and North Down Northern Ireland [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA/AO Asian Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Northern Ireland [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA/AO Asian Barking & Dagenham and Havering Outer London - East and North East 20 15 [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA/AO Asian Barnet Outer London - West and North West 70 55 24950 24950
In post 2023 AA/AO Asian Barnsley, Doncaster and Rotherham South Yorkshire 10 10 [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA/AO Asian Bath and North East Somerset, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and Bath/Bristol area 45 45 24220 24750
In post 2023 AA/AO Asian Bedford Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire 20 20 [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA/AO Asian Belfast Northern Ireland 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA/AO Asian Berkshire Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire 95 80 24870 23690
In post 2023 AA/AO Asian Bexley and Greenwich Outer London - East and North East 45 40 29580 27830
In post 2023 AA/AO Asian Birmingham West Midlands 1285 1160 22210 21780
In post 2023 AA/AO Asian Blackburn with Darwen Lancashire 10 10 [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA/AO Asian Blackpool Lancashire 25 20 [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA/AO Asian Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Dorset and Somerset [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA/AO Asian Bradford West Yorkshire 530 465 22230 22520
In post 2023 AA/AO Asian Breckland and South Norfolk East Anglia [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA/AO Asian Brent Outer London - West and North West 35 25 25240 25480
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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.
Region_ITL2 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 2 divides into Northern Ireland, counties in England (most grouped), groups of districts in Greater London, groups of unitary authorities in Wales, groups of council areas in Scotland.
Region_ITL3 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 3 divides into counties, unitary authorities, or districts in England (some grouped), groups of unitary authorities in Wales, groups of council areas in Scotland, groups of districts in Northern Ireland.
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).