Civil Service Statistics data browser (2023)

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

Status Year Sex Sexual_orientation Ethnicity Responsibility_level_grouped Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2023 Female Heterosexual / straight Asian AA/AO 3935 3345 23410 22520
In post 2023 Female Heterosexual / straight Asian EO 4865 4420 29370 28220
In post 2023 Female Heterosexual / straight Asian G6/G7 2045 1975 59970 57970
In post 2023 Female Heterosexual / straight Asian SCS level 150 140 91740 83280
In post 2023 Female Heterosexual / straight Asian SEO/HEO 4640 4470 38320 37680
In post 2023 Female Heterosexual / straight Asian Unknown 640 590 29740 27640
In post 2023 Female Heterosexual / straight Black AA/AO 2055 1860 24970 25480
In post 2023 Female Heterosexual / straight Black EO 2875 2710 30320 30280
In post 2023 Female Heterosexual / straight Black G6/G7 885 870 59230 56800
In post 2023 Female Heterosexual / straight Black SCS level 55 55 90060 83000
In post 2023 Female Heterosexual / straight Black SEO/HEO 2580 2535 38880 38680
In post 2023 Female Heterosexual / straight Black Unknown 860 820 31840 29300
In post 2023 Female Heterosexual / straight Mixed AA/AO 920 815 24220 22520
In post 2023 Female Heterosexual / straight Mixed EO 1075 995 29260 28120
In post 2023 Female Heterosexual / straight Mixed G6/G7 715 680 59870 57970
In post 2023 Female Heterosexual / straight Mixed SCS level 65 60 85960 81160
In post 2023 Female Heterosexual / straight Mixed SEO/HEO 1260 1225 38150 37610
In post 2023 Female Heterosexual / straight Mixed Unknown 440 415 31130 29050
In post 2023 Female Heterosexual / straight Other ethnicity AA/AO 215 195 24200 23460
In post 2023 Female Heterosexual / straight Other ethnicity EO 300 280 29830 29450
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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.
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).