Civil Service Statistics data browser (2023)

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

Status Year Sex Region_london Responsibility_level_ungrouped Responsibility_level_grouped Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2023 Female London AA AA/AO 765 685 24710 23500
In post 2023 Female London AO AA/AO 5880 5265 27000 26400
In post 2023 Female London EO EO 11685 10855 31300 31230
In post 2023 Female London G6 G6/G7 4750 4475 70600 68850
In post 2023 Female London G7 G6/G7 10675 10225 57860 56430
In post 2023 Female London HEO SEO/HEO 10565 10255 36550 36180
In post 2023 Female London SCS level SCS level 2195 2075 90040 81780
In post 2023 Female London SEO SEO/HEO 8410 8145 44130 43650
In post 2023 Female London Unknown Unknown 1775 1670 35030 33050
In post 2023 Female Outside London AA AA/AO 8350 7165 21870 22180
In post 2023 Female Outside London AO AA/AO 61260 52740 23370 22400
In post 2023 Female Outside London EO EO 60455 54155 28270 28120
In post 2023 Female Outside London G6 G6/G7 5120 4865 70430 69570
In post 2023 Female Outside London G7 G6/G7 16040 15180 55380 54470
In post 2023 Female Outside London HEO SEO/HEO 33880 31820 34190 34170
In post 2023 Female Outside London SCS level SCS level 1200 1155 90090 83530
In post 2023 Female Outside London SEO SEO/HEO 23320 22080 42180 41640
In post 2023 Female Outside London Unknown Unknown 15230 14070 30130 29050
In post 2023 Female Overseas AA AA/AO [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Female Overseas AO AA/AO 25 25 [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).
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.
Region_london Workplace postcode data are used to derive geographical information using the International Territorial Level (ITL) classification standard.
Region_london groups the ITL classifications into "London", "Outside London": all UK regions excluding London, "Overseas", and "Unknown".
Sex Self reported sex.
"Unknown" accounts for employees who were recorded with an unknown sex.
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).