Civil Service Statistics data browser (2023)

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

Status Year Responsibility_level_grouped Function_of_post Age Parent_department Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2023 AA/AO Analysis 16-19 Department for Work and Pensions [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA/AO Analysis 16-19 Department of Health and Social Care [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA/AO Analysis 16-19 Food Standards Agency [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA/AO Analysis 16-19 Ministry of Defence 10 10 23010 23340
In post 2023 AA/AO Analysis 16-19 Office of Gas and Electricity Markets [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA/AO Analysis 16-19 UK Statistics Authority [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA/AO Analysis 20-29 Competition and Markets Authority [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA/AO Analysis 20-29 Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA/AO Analysis 20-29 Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA/AO Analysis 20-29 Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 15 15 21470 22150
In post 2023 AA/AO Analysis 20-29 Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA/AO Analysis 20-29 Department for Transport [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA/AO Analysis 20-29 Department for Work and Pensions 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA/AO Analysis 20-29 Department of Health and Social Care [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA/AO Analysis 20-29 Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA/AO Analysis 20-29 HM Revenue and Customs 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA/AO Analysis 20-29 HM Treasury 10 10 23210 23210
In post 2023 AA/AO Analysis 20-29 Home Office 25 25 23180 23500
In post 2023 AA/AO Analysis 20-29 Ministry of Defence 25 25 23660 23780
In post 2023 AA/AO Analysis 20-29 Office of Gas and Electricity Markets [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.
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.
Function_of_post Functions relate to the post occupied by the person and are not dependent on qualifications the individual may have.
Welsh Government and Royal Fleet Auxiliary did not report any functions information for their employees.
Of the 20 bodies under the Scottish Government, 16 did not report any functions information for their employees.
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).