Civil Service Statistics data browser (2023)

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

Status Year Sex Ethnicity Responsibility_level_grouped Parent_department Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2023 Female Asian AA/AO Attorney General’s Departments 175 155 23290 24280
In post 2023 Female Asian AA/AO Cabinet Office 15 10 [c] [c]
In post 2023 Female Asian AA/AO Chancellor’s other departments [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Female Asian AA/AO Charity Commission [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Female Asian AA/AO Competition and Markets Authority [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Female Asian AA/AO Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy 60 50 23330 22180
In post 2023 Female Asian AA/AO Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Female Asian AA/AO Department for Education 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2023 Female Asian AA/AO Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 65 60 23070 22150
In post 2023 Female Asian AA/AO Department for International Trade [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Female Asian AA/AO Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities 10 5 [c] [c]
In post 2023 Female Asian AA/AO Department for Transport 65 55 22380 22500
In post 2023 Female Asian AA/AO Department for Work and Pensions 1435 1125 22680 21690
In post 2023 Female Asian AA/AO Department of Health and Social Care 65 55 23570 23980
In post 2023 Female Asian AA/AO Estyn [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Female Asian AA/AO Food Standards Agency [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Female Asian AA/AO Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office 20 20 [c] [c]
In post 2023 Female Asian AA/AO HM Land Registry 40 35 23730 23390
In post 2023 Female Asian AA/AO HM Revenue and Customs 970 820 23330 22520
In post 2023 Female Asian AA/AO HM Treasury 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 2023-07-26, 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).
Parent_department Government Department, total figures for both Ministerial and Non-Ministerial Departments include all of their Executive Agencies.
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.
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).