Civil Service Statistics data browser (2023)

Data preview: All civil servants / Sex / Sexual_orientation / Disability / Responsibility_level_grouped

Status Year Sex Sexual_orientation Disability Responsibility_level_grouped Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2023 Female Heterosexual / straight Declared disabled AA/AO 7420 6215 22980 22150
In post 2023 Female Heterosexual / straight Declared disabled EO 8305 7305 28670 28120
In post 2023 Female Heterosexual / straight Declared disabled G6/G7 2790 2660 59540 57710
In post 2023 Female Heterosexual / straight Declared disabled SCS level 230 215 89570 82060
In post 2023 Female Heterosexual / straight Declared disabled SEO/HEO 6705 6310 37790 36990
In post 2023 Female Heterosexual / straight Declared disabled Unknown 2660 2455 31180 29050
In post 2023 Female Heterosexual / straight Declared non-disabled AA/AO 35895 31070 23490 22500
In post 2023 Female Heterosexual / straight Declared non-disabled EO 36235 32620 28610 28120
In post 2023 Female Heterosexual / straight Declared non-disabled G6/G7 20930 19860 60290 57970
In post 2023 Female Heterosexual / straight Declared non-disabled SCS level 2100 2000 89310 81890
In post 2023 Female Heterosexual / straight Declared non-disabled SEO/HEO 41680 39440 38150 37590
In post 2023 Female Heterosexual / straight Declared non-disabled Unknown 9540 8860 31060 29050
In post 2023 Female Heterosexual / straight Undeclared AA/AO 1925 1640 23730 22500
In post 2023 Female Heterosexual / straight Undeclared EO 1585 1430 28850 28120
In post 2023 Female Heterosexual / straight Undeclared G6/G7 830 795 59830 57970
In post 2023 Female Heterosexual / straight Undeclared SCS level 80 80 90010 80690
In post 2023 Female Heterosexual / straight Undeclared SEO/HEO 1780 1700 38300 37590
In post 2023 Female Heterosexual / straight Undeclared Unknown 400 375 31500 29050
In post 2023 Female Heterosexual / straight Unknown AA/AO 2755 2440 23340 22520
In post 2023 Female Heterosexual / straight Unknown EO 3380 3215 29910 28200
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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.
Sex Self reported sex.
"Unknown" accounts for employees who were recorded with an unknown sex.
Disability Self reported disability.
"Undeclared" accounts for employees who have actively declared that they do not want to disclose their disability status and "Unknown" accounts for employees who have not made an active declaration about their disability status.
Sexual_orientation Self reported sexual orientation.
"Undeclared" accounts for employees who have actively declared that they do not want to disclose their sexual orientation and "Unknown" accounts for employees who have not made an active declaration about their sexual orientation.
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).