Civil Service Statistics data browser (2023)

Data preview: All civil servants / Sex / Disability / Responsibility_level_ungrouped / Responsibility_level_grouped

Status Year Sex Disability Responsibility_level_ungrouped Responsibility_level_grouped Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2023 Female Declared disabled AA AA/AO 1060 890 21840 21560
In post 2023 Female Declared disabled AO AA/AO 8915 7495 23190 22180
In post 2023 Female Declared disabled EO EO 10850 9565 28700 28120
In post 2023 Female Declared disabled G6 G6/G7 875 830 70290 68890
In post 2023 Female Declared disabled G7 G6/G7 2750 2615 56040 55380
In post 2023 Female Declared disabled HEO SEO/HEO 5445 5125 34560 34300
In post 2023 Female Declared disabled SCS level SCS level 290 280 89100 81610
In post 2023 Female Declared disabled SEO SEO/HEO 3490 3325 42350 41800
In post 2023 Female Declared disabled Unknown Unknown 3240 3005 31230 29050
In post 2023 Female Declared non-disabled AA AA/AO 5030 4315 22020 22520
In post 2023 Female Declared non-disabled AO AA/AO 41410 35485 23670 22490
In post 2023 Female Declared non-disabled EO EO 45860 40960 28670 28120
In post 2023 Female Declared non-disabled G6 G6/G7 6845 6475 70430 69060
In post 2023 Female Declared non-disabled G7 G6/G7 17890 16985 56480 55720
In post 2023 Female Declared non-disabled HEO SEO/HEO 28420 26810 34800 34400
In post 2023 Female Declared non-disabled SCS level SCS level 2425 2310 89110 81750
In post 2023 Female Declared non-disabled SEO SEO/HEO 21150 20105 42730 42140
In post 2023 Female Declared non-disabled Unknown Unknown 10720 9965 31100 29050
In post 2023 Female Undeclared AA AA/AO 575 485 22420 23230
In post 2023 Female Undeclared AO AA/AO 3200 2735 24380 22520
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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.
Sex Self reported sex.
"Unknown" accounts for employees who were recorded with an unknown sex.
Disability Self reported disability.
"Undeclared" accounts for employees who have actively declared that they do not want to disclose their disability status and "Unknown" accounts for employees who have not made an active declaration about their disability status.
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).