Civil Service Statistics data browser (2023)

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

Status Year Responsibility_level_grouped Sexual_orientation Sex Ethnicity Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2023 AA/AO Heterosexual / straight Female Asian 3935 3345 23410 22520
In post 2023 AA/AO Heterosexual / straight Female Black 2055 1860 24970 25480
In post 2023 AA/AO Heterosexual / straight Female Mixed 920 815 24220 22520
In post 2023 AA/AO Heterosexual / straight Female Other ethnicity 215 195 24200 23460
In post 2023 AA/AO Heterosexual / straight Female Undeclared 390 340 23250 22400
In post 2023 AA/AO Heterosexual / straight Female Unknown 580 490 23680 22520
In post 2023 AA/AO Heterosexual / straight Female White 39900 34325 23310 22400
In post 2023 AA/AO Heterosexual / straight Male Asian 3280 3125 24150 22520
In post 2023 AA/AO Heterosexual / straight Male Black 1530 1495 27150 25610
In post 2023 AA/AO Heterosexual / straight Male Mixed 685 660 26170 24070
In post 2023 AA/AO Heterosexual / straight Male Other ethnicity 200 195 26630 25340
In post 2023 AA/AO Heterosexual / straight Male Undeclared 380 365 25260 23230
In post 2023 AA/AO Heterosexual / straight Male Unknown 470 455 25950 23230
In post 2023 AA/AO Heterosexual / straight Male White 31055 29740 25420 22520
In post 2023 AA/AO Heterosexual / straight Unknown Asian [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA/AO Heterosexual / straight Unknown Black [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA/AO Heterosexual / straight Unknown Mixed [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA/AO Heterosexual / straight Unknown Other ethnicity [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA/AO Heterosexual / straight Unknown Undeclared [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA/AO Heterosexual / straight Unknown Unknown [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).
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.
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.
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).