Civil Service Statistics data browser (2023)

Data preview: All civil servants / Responsibility_level_ungrouped / Parent_department / Sexual_orientation

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Status Year Responsibility_level_ungrouped Parent_department Sexual_orientation Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2023 AA Attorney General’s Departments Heterosexual / straight 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA Attorney General’s Departments LGBO [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA Attorney General’s Departments Unknown [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Heterosexual / straight 65 65 19420 19080
In post 2023 AA Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy LGBO 10 10 [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Undeclared 10 10 [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Unknown 25 20 [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Heterosexual / straight 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs LGBO [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Unknown [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Heterosexual / straight 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities LGBO [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Unknown [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA Department for Transport Heterosexual / straight 585 475 19280 19000
In post 2023 AA Department for Transport LGBO 40 35 19000 19000
In post 2023 AA Department for Transport Undeclared 330 235 19300 19000
In post 2023 AA Department for Transport Unknown 210 180 19470 19000
In post 2023 AA Department for Work and Pensions Heterosexual / straight 160 125 21300 21250
In post 2023 AA Department for Work and Pensions LGBO 10 10 [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA Department for Work and Pensions Undeclared 30 25 21340 21250
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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_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.
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).