Civil Service Statistics data browser (2023)

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

Status Year Sex Sexual_orientation Ethnicity Parent_department Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2023 Female Heterosexual / straight Asian Attorney General’s Departments 735 685 42450 40800
In post 2023 Female Heterosexual / straight Asian Cabinet Office 295 285 45340 38820
In post 2023 Female Heterosexual / straight Asian Chancellor’s other departments 20 20 [c] [c]
In post 2023 Female Heterosexual / straight Asian Charity Commission 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2023 Female Heterosexual / straight Asian Competition and Markets Authority 55 55 45590 36000
In post 2023 Female Heterosexual / straight Asian Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy 455 440 42430 41060
In post 2023 Female Heterosexual / straight Asian Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport 80 75 48640 53030
In post 2023 Female Heterosexual / straight Asian Department for Education 465 445 40830 37590
In post 2023 Female Heterosexual / straight Asian Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 275 270 36160 33830
In post 2023 Female Heterosexual / straight Asian Department for International Trade 140 140 44910 41550
In post 2023 Female Heterosexual / straight Asian Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities 155 150 43470 37540
In post 2023 Female Heterosexual / straight Asian Department for Transport 270 255 40050 35760
In post 2023 Female Heterosexual / straight Asian Department for Work and Pensions 3595 3140 29430 28120
In post 2023 Female Heterosexual / straight Asian Department of Health and Social Care 625 595 43150 35860
In post 2023 Female Heterosexual / straight Asian Estyn [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Female Heterosexual / straight Asian Food Standards Agency 35 35 43310 37720
In post 2023 Female Heterosexual / straight Asian Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office 235 225 43720 38540
In post 2023 Female Heterosexual / straight Asian HM Land Registry 85 80 31390 28080
In post 2023 Female Heterosexual / straight Asian HM Revenue and Customs 2290 2115 34910 32540
In post 2023 Female Heterosexual / straight Asian HM Treasury 180 175 44470 42700
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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).
Parent_department Government Department, total figures for both Ministerial and Non-Ministerial Departments include all of their Executive Agencies.
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.
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).