Civil Service Statistics data browser (2023)

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

Status Year Sex Responsibility_level_grouped Parent_department Responsibility_level_ungrouped Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2023 Female AA/AO Attorney General’s Departments AA [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Female AA/AO Attorney General’s Departments AO 1190 1080 23230 22870
In post 2023 Female AA/AO Cabinet Office AO 245 220 22430 21720
In post 2023 Female AA/AO Chancellor’s other departments AO 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2023 Female AA/AO Charity Commission AO 10 10 [c] [c]
In post 2023 Female AA/AO Competition and Markets Authority AO 15 15 [c] [c]
In post 2023 Female AA/AO Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy AA 55 50 19830 20200
In post 2023 Female AA/AO Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy AO 795 700 22710 22180
In post 2023 Female AA/AO Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport AO [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Female AA/AO Department for Education AO 65 60 22800 22020
In post 2023 Female AA/AO Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs AA [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Female AA/AO Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs AO 1525 1350 22540 22150
In post 2023 Female AA/AO Department for International Trade AO 15 15 [c] [c]
In post 2023 Female AA/AO Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities AA 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2023 Female AA/AO Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities AO 115 105 23180 23250
In post 2023 Female AA/AO Department for Transport AA 740 535 19050 19000
In post 2023 Female AA/AO Department for Transport AO 2455 2065 22610 22500
In post 2023 Female AA/AO Department for Work and Pensions AA 130 90 21320 21250
In post 2023 Female AA/AO Department for Work and Pensions AO 16970 13795 22040 21690
In post 2023 Female AA/AO Department of Health and Social Care AA 45 40 21790 21080
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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).
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.
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.
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).