Civil Service Statistics data browser (2023)

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

Status Year Responsibility_level_grouped Sexual_orientation Organisation Parent_department Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2023 AA/AO Heterosexual / straight Accountant in Bankruptcy Scottish Government 10 10 [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA/AO Heterosexual / straight Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy 30 25 22200 21670
In post 2023 AA/AO Heterosexual / straight Animal and Plant Health Agency Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 660 615 22940 22150
In post 2023 AA/AO Heterosexual / straight Attorney General’s Office Attorney General’s Departments 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA/AO Heterosexual / straight Building Digital UK Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA/AO Heterosexual / straight Cabinet Office (excl. agencies) Cabinet Office 290 265 22470 21720
In post 2023 AA/AO Heterosexual / straight Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA/AO Heterosexual / straight Charity Commission Charity Commission 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA/AO Heterosexual / straight Companies House Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy 285 255 22630 23240
In post 2023 AA/AO Heterosexual / straight Competition and Markets Authority Competition and Markets Authority 20 20 [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA/AO Heterosexual / straight Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority Ministry of Justice 70 60 21590 21780
In post 2023 AA/AO Heterosexual / straight Crown Commercial Service Cabinet Office 15 15 [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA/AO Heterosexual / straight Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service Scottish Government 665 605 24000 24490
In post 2023 AA/AO Heterosexual / straight Crown Prosecution Service Attorney General’s Departments 1205 1120 23130 22870
In post 2023 AA/AO Heterosexual / straight Defence Electronics and Components Agency Ministry of Defence 45 45 19400 19840
In post 2023 AA/AO Heterosexual / straight Defence Equipment and Support Ministry of Defence 1175 1120 22680 21770
In post 2023 AA/AO Heterosexual / straight Defence Science and Technology Laboratory Ministry of Defence 80 80 20670 19430
In post 2023 AA/AO Heterosexual / straight Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (excl. agencies) Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy 45 45 24760 25900
In post 2023 AA/AO Heterosexual / straight Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (excl. agencies) Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA/AO Heterosexual / straight Department for Education (excl. agencies) Department for Education 55 50 22830 22020
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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.
Sexual_orientation Self reported sexual orientation.
"Undeclared" accounts for employees who have actively declared that they do not want to disclose their sexual orientation and "Unknown" accounts for employees who have not made an active declaration about their sexual orientation.
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).