Civil Service Statistics data browser (2023)

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Status Year Responsibility_level_ungrouped Parent_department Responsibility_level_grouped Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2023 AA Attorney General’s Departments AA/AO 10 10 20610 21050
In post 2023 AA Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy AA/AO 110 105 19710 20200
In post 2023 AA Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs AA/AO 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities AA/AO 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA Department for Transport AA/AO 1160 925 19310 19000
In post 2023 AA Department for Work and Pensions AA/AO 250 205 21310 21250
In post 2023 AA Department of Health and Social Care AA/AO 80 65 21750 21320
In post 2023 AA Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office AA/AO [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA HM Land Registry AA/AO 25 25 21500 20380
In post 2023 AA HM Revenue and Customs AA/AO 620 465 22580 22520
In post 2023 AA Home Office AA/AO 715 620 21120 19500
In post 2023 AA Ministry of Defence AA/AO 4695 4530 21450 21380
In post 2023 AA Ministry of Justice AA/AO 7940 7225 22880 23230
In post 2023 AA Office of the Secretary of State for Scotland AA/AO 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA Scottish Government AA/AO 2770 2555 23290 22920
In post 2023 AA The National Archives AA/AO [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA UK Export Finance AA/AO [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA UK Statistics Authority AA/AO 295 175 20850 20150
In post 2023 AO Attorney General’s Departments AA/AO 1640 1515 23240 22870
In post 2023 AO Cabinet Office AA/AO 440 410 22560 21720
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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.
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).