Civil Service Statistics data browser (2023)

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

Status Year Responsibility_level_ungrouped Ethnicity Sex Sexual_orientation Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2023 AA Asian Female Heterosexual / straight 225 185 22370 23000
In post 2023 AA Asian Female LGBO 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA Asian Female Undeclared 35 30 22330 22520
In post 2023 AA Asian Female Unknown 25 20 [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA Asian Male Heterosexual / straight 300 285 22910 23230
In post 2023 AA Asian Male LGBO 15 15 [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA Asian Male Undeclared 30 30 22480 23230
In post 2023 AA Asian Male Unknown 30 25 [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA Asian Unknown Heterosexual / straight [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA Asian Unknown LGBO [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA Asian Unknown Undeclared [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA Asian Unknown Unknown [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA Black Female Heterosexual / straight 210 190 24080 23500
In post 2023 AA Black Female LGBO 10 10 [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA Black Female Undeclared 15 15 [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA Black Female Unknown 25 25 [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA Black Male Heterosexual / straight 210 205 23980 23500
In post 2023 AA Black Male LGBO [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA Black Male Undeclared 15 15 [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA Black Male Unknown 45 40 24590 24270
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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_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.
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).