Civil Service Statistics data browser (2023)

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Status Year Responsibility_level_ungrouped Responsibility_level_grouped Region_london Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2023 AA AA/AO London 1545 1435 24660 23500
In post 2023 AA AA/AO Outside London 17130 15470 21980 22180
In post 2023 AA AA/AO Overseas [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA AA/AO Unknown 30 25 22730 23230
In post 2023 AO AA/AO London 10255 9505 27850 26400
In post 2023 AO AA/AO Outside London 107420 96915 24280 22520
In post 2023 AO AA/AO Overseas 50 50 29700 26740
In post 2023 AO AA/AO Unknown 165 160 23610 21780
In post 2023 EO EO London 19805 18745 31450 31310
In post 2023 EO EO Outside London 106950 98845 28610 28120
In post 2023 EO EO Overseas 200 200 34890 33510
In post 2023 EO EO Unknown 380 350 28070 28120
In post 2023 G6 G6/G7 London 9365 9005 71220 69920
In post 2023 G6 G6/G7 Outside London 10905 10485 70650 69940
In post 2023 G6 G6/G7 Overseas 440 440 69550 66800
In post 2023 G6 G6/G7 Unknown 30 30 68350 66860
In post 2023 G7 G6/G7 London 20605 20020 58290 56480
In post 2023 G7 G6/G7 Outside London 32910 31670 55750 55000
In post 2023 G7 G6/G7 Overseas 870 865 57710 56100
In post 2023 G7 G6/G7 Unknown 95 90 56590 55790
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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).
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".
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).