Civil Service Statistics data browser (2023)

Data preview: All civil servants / Responsibility_level_grouped / Profession_of_post

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Status Year Responsibility_level_grouped Profession_of_post Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2023 AA/AO Commercial 410 380 23590 22500
In post 2023 AA/AO Communications 175 165 23120 22430
In post 2023 AA/AO Corporate Finance [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA/AO Counter Fraud 1620 1405 23120 21690
In post 2023 AA/AO Digital, Data and Technology 580 560 23190 22500
In post 2023 AA/AO Economics 65 65 23110 22830
In post 2023 AA/AO Finance 1065 965 23190 22520
In post 2023 AA/AO Geography 35 35 21700 21690
In post 2023 AA/AO Human Resources 1275 1185 22750 22220
In post 2023 AA/AO Inspector of Education and Training [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA/AO Intelligence Analysis 90 80 24540 25060
In post 2023 AA/AO Internal Audit 20 20 27870 26510
In post 2023 AA/AO International Trade [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA/AO Knowledge and Information Management 410 385 23210 22220
In post 2023 AA/AO Legal 225 195 23360 22520
In post 2023 AA/AO Medicine 315 290 24130 24680
In post 2023 AA/AO Operational Delivery 109215 97885 24270 22520
In post 2023 AA/AO Operational Research 110 110 22430 22520
In post 2023 AA/AO Other 5600 5140 22020 21690
In post 2023 AA/AO Planning 15 15 24100 23880
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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.
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.
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).