Civil Service Statistics data browser (2023)

Data preview: All civil servants / Responsibility_level_grouped / Responsibility_level_ungrouped / Organisation / Parent_department

Status Year Responsibility_level_grouped Responsibility_level_ungrouped Organisation Parent_department Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2023 AA/AO AA Accountant in Bankruptcy Scottish Government 35 35 23910 24890
In post 2023 AA/AO AA Animal and Plant Health Agency Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA/AO AA Companies House Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA/AO AA Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority Ministry of Justice 10 10 19930 19930
In post 2023 AA/AO AA Crown Prosecution Service Attorney General’s Departments 10 10 20520 21050
In post 2023 AA/AO AA Defence Electronics and Components Agency Ministry of Defence 35 35 17940 18640
In post 2023 AA/AO AA Defence Science and Technology Laboratory Ministry of Defence 40 40 19320 19280
In post 2023 AA/AO AA Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (excl. agencies) Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA/AO AA Department for Transport (excl. agencies) Department for Transport [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA/AO AA Department for Work and Pensions (excl. agencies) Department for Work and Pensions 250 205 21310 21250
In post 2023 AA/AO AA Disclosure Scotland Scottish Government 190 180 23980 23340
In post 2023 AA/AO AA Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency Department for Transport 1145 915 19310 19000
In post 2023 AA/AO AA Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency Department for Transport 10 10 19320 19000
In post 2023 AA/AO AA Education Scotland Scottish Government 35 30 23890 24890
In post 2023 AA/AO AA Food Standards Scotland Scottish Government [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA/AO AA Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (excl. agencies) Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA/AO AA Forestry and Land Scotland Scottish Government 25 25 22150 22460
In post 2023 AA/AO AA HM Courts and Tribunals Service Ministry of Justice 1670 1430 20610 19930
In post 2023 AA/AO AA HM Land Registry HM Land Registry 25 25 21500 20380
In post 2023 AA/AO AA HM Prison and Probation Service Ministry of Justice 6215 5745 23510 23230
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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).
Parent_department Government Department, total figures for both Ministerial and Non-Ministerial Departments include all of their Executive Agencies.
Organisation Executive Agencies, Ministerial and Non-Ministerial Departments, Crown Non-departmental Public Bodies.
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.
Responsibility_level_ungrouped 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_ungrouped shows the mapped grades at a higher level of detail, however not all Government Departments / bodies have distinct grades that map exactly to these levels so figures should be considered as approximations and treated with caution.
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).