Civil Service Statistics data browser (2023)

Data preview: All civil servants / Sex / Ethnicity / Responsibility_level_grouped / Function_of_post

Status Year Sex Ethnicity Responsibility_level_grouped Function_of_post Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2023 Female Asian AA/AO Analysis 15 15 [c] [c]
In post 2023 Female Asian AA/AO Commercial [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Female Asian AA/AO Communications 10 10 [c] [c]
In post 2023 Female Asian AA/AO Counter Fraud 175 145 24160 25610
In post 2023 Female Asian AA/AO Debt 565 475 23340 22520
In post 2023 Female Asian AA/AO Digital, Data & Technology 15 10 [c] [c]
In post 2023 Female Asian AA/AO Finance 55 45 23620 22520
In post 2023 Female Asian AA/AO Grants Management 25 25 [c] [c]
In post 2023 Female Asian AA/AO Human Resources 40 35 23550 22450
In post 2023 Female Asian AA/AO Internal Audit [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Female Asian AA/AO Legal 185 165 23320 22870
In post 2023 Female Asian AA/AO No function 3800 3165 23400 22500
In post 2023 Female Asian AA/AO Project Delivery 20 15 [c] [c]
In post 2023 Female Asian AA/AO Property 50 40 23710 22520
In post 2023 Female Asian AA/AO Security 30 25 25780 26400
In post 2023 Female Asian AA/AO Unknown 60 55 23970 23340
In post 2023 Female Asian EO Analysis 60 60 28450 28360
In post 2023 Female Asian EO Commercial 30 25 [c] [c]
In post 2023 Female Asian EO Communications 30 30 29150 28850
In post 2023 Female Asian EO Counter Fraud 370 345 30340 31000
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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.
Function_of_post Functions relate to the post occupied by the person and are not dependent on qualifications the individual may have.
Welsh Government and Royal Fleet Auxiliary did not report any functions information for their employees.
Of the 20 bodies under the Scottish Government, 16 did not report any functions information for their employees.
Sex Self reported sex.
"Unknown" accounts for employees who were recorded with an unknown sex.
Ethnicity Self reported ethnicity. "Undeclared" accounts for employees who have actively declared that they do not want to disclose their ethnicity and "Unknown" accounts for employees who have not made an active declaration about their ethnicity.
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).