Civil Service Statistics data browser (2023)

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

Status Year Sex Disability Sexual_orientation Responsibility_level_ungrouped Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2023 Female Declared disabled Heterosexual / straight AA 755 635 21820 21380
In post 2023 Female Declared disabled Heterosexual / straight AO 6660 5580 23120 22150
In post 2023 Female Declared disabled Heterosexual / straight EO 8305 7305 28670 28120
In post 2023 Female Declared disabled Heterosexual / straight G6 695 665 70160 68960
In post 2023 Female Declared disabled Heterosexual / straight G7 2095 1995 56020 55400
In post 2023 Female Declared disabled Heterosexual / straight HEO 4000 3745 34670 34300
In post 2023 Female Declared disabled Heterosexual / straight SCS level 230 215 89570 82060
In post 2023 Female Declared disabled Heterosexual / straight SEO 2705 2565 42420 41800
In post 2023 Female Declared disabled Heterosexual / straight Unknown 2660 2455 31180 29050
In post 2023 Female Declared disabled LGBO AA 100 95 22670 23230
In post 2023 Female Declared disabled LGBO AO 630 590 24400 22520
In post 2023 Female Declared disabled LGBO EO 805 765 28510 28120
In post 2023 Female Declared disabled LGBO G6 65 65 69970 67530
In post 2023 Female Declared disabled LGBO G7 280 270 55160 55110
In post 2023 Female Declared disabled LGBO HEO 600 580 34500 34280
In post 2023 Female Declared disabled LGBO SCS level 30 30 87050 80020
In post 2023 Female Declared disabled LGBO SEO 350 335 41930 41550
In post 2023 Female Declared disabled LGBO Unknown 330 315 29960 28580
In post 2023 Female Declared disabled Undeclared AA 145 110 21030 19930
In post 2023 Female Declared disabled Undeclared AO 945 780 23020 21780
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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 2023-07-28, 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_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.
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).