Civil Service Statistics data browser (2023)

Data preview: All civil servants / Responsibility_level_ungrouped / Region_london / Age / Responsibility_level_grouped

Status Year Responsibility_level_ungrouped Region_london Age Responsibility_level_grouped Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2023 AA London 16-19 AA/AO 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA London 20-29 AA/AO 220 215 25060 23500
In post 2023 AA London 30-39 AA/AO 175 165 25340 26010
In post 2023 AA London 40-49 AA/AO 230 215 24810 23580
In post 2023 AA London 50-59 AA/AO 465 440 24610 23670
In post 2023 AA London 60-64 AA/AO 260 235 24360 23500
In post 2023 AA London 65+ AA/AO 195 160 23920 23230
In post 2023 AA Outside London 16-19 AA/AO 250 235 21600 22460
In post 2023 AA Outside London 20-29 AA/AO 2820 2720 22330 23230
In post 2023 AA Outside London 30-39 AA/AO 2385 2195 22380 23230
In post 2023 AA Outside London 40-49 AA/AO 2595 2385 22090 22180
In post 2023 AA Outside London 50-59 AA/AO 5080 4695 21910 21660
In post 2023 AA Outside London 60-64 AA/AO 2745 2285 21600 21380
In post 2023 AA Outside London 65+ AA/AO 1255 950 21380 21250
In post 2023 AA Overseas 50-59 AA/AO [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA Unknown 16-19 AA/AO [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA Unknown 20-29 AA/AO 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA Unknown 30-39 AA/AO 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA Unknown 40-49 AA/AO 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA Unknown 50-59 AA/AO 5 5 [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.
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.
Region_london Workplace postcode data are used to derive geographical information using the International Territorial Level (ITL) classification standard.
Region_london groups the ITL classifications into "London", "Outside London": all UK regions excluding London, "Overseas", and "Unknown".
Age Age in 10 year bands. Age is calculated as at the reference date in each year (31st March), so entrants or leavers may have been up to one year younger at the date of exit or entry.
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).