Civil Service Statistics data browser (2023)

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

Status Year Sex Function_of_post Ethnicity Responsibility_level_ungrouped Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2023 Female Analysis Asian AA [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Female Analysis Asian AO 10 10 [c] [c]
In post 2023 Female Analysis Asian EO 60 60 28450 28360
In post 2023 Female Analysis Asian G6 25 25 [c] [c]
In post 2023 Female Analysis Asian G7 80 75 58100 57400
In post 2023 Female Analysis Asian HEO 120 120 35300 35000
In post 2023 Female Analysis Asian SCS level 10 10 [c] [c]
In post 2023 Female Analysis Asian SEO 90 85 42900 42880
In post 2023 Female Analysis Asian Unknown [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Female Analysis Black AA [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Female Analysis Black AO 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2023 Female Analysis Black EO 30 30 29900 29530
In post 2023 Female Analysis Black G6 [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Female Analysis Black G7 25 20 [c] [c]
In post 2023 Female Analysis Black HEO 55 50 35130 35410
In post 2023 Female Analysis Black SCS level [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Female Analysis Black SEO 30 30 43270 43650
In post 2023 Female Analysis Black Unknown [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Female Analysis Mixed AA [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Female Analysis Mixed AO [c] [c] [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 2023-07-29, 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.
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).