Civil Service Statistics data browser (2023)

Data preview: All civil servants / Responsibility_level_grouped / Region_london / Ethnicity / Sex

Status Year Responsibility_level_grouped Region_london Ethnicity Sex Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2023 AA/AO London Asian Female 1420 1200 25900 25610
In post 2023 AA/AO London Asian Male 920 885 26940 26400
In post 2023 AA/AO London Asian Unknown [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA/AO London Black Female 1305 1175 26720 25610
In post 2023 AA/AO London Black Male 865 840 29010 26630
In post 2023 AA/AO London Black Unknown [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA/AO London Mixed Female 220 200 27620 26400
In post 2023 AA/AO London Mixed Male 165 160 28350 26400
In post 2023 AA/AO London Mixed Unknown [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA/AO London Other ethnicity Female 90 80 26250 25610
In post 2023 AA/AO London Other ethnicity Male 75 75 29150 26560
In post 2023 AA/AO London Other ethnicity Unknown [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA/AO London Undeclared Female 290 255 25900 25610
In post 2023 AA/AO London Undeclared Male 210 200 27300 25610
In post 2023 AA/AO London Unknown Female 1245 1175 27480 26400
In post 2023 AA/AO London Unknown Male 1050 1030 28830 26630
In post 2023 AA/AO London White Female 2080 1860 26930 25810
In post 2023 AA/AO London White Male 1870 1805 28490 26400
In post 2023 AA/AO London White Unknown [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA/AO Outside London Asian Female 3615 3020 22470 22150
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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_london Workplace postcode data are used to derive geographical information using the International Territorial Level (ITL) classification standard.
Region_london groups the ITL classifications into "London", "Outside London": all UK regions excluding London, "Overseas", and "Unknown".
Sex Self reported sex.
"Unknown" accounts for employees who were recorded with an unknown sex.
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).