Civil Service Statistics data browser (2023)

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

Status Year Sexual_orientation Disability Ethnicity Responsibility_level_grouped Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2023 Heterosexual / straight Declared disabled Asian AA/AO 765 670 23680 22520
In post 2023 Heterosexual / straight Declared disabled Asian EO 1020 930 29560 28130
In post 2023 Heterosexual / straight Declared disabled Asian G6/G7 300 290 60450 58870
In post 2023 Heterosexual / straight Declared disabled Asian SCS level 20 20 [c] [c]
In post 2023 Heterosexual / straight Declared disabled Asian SEO/HEO 790 760 38600 37960
In post 2023 Heterosexual / straight Declared disabled Asian Unknown 155 145 30730 29050
In post 2023 Heterosexual / straight Declared disabled Black AA/AO 405 365 25220 25480
In post 2023 Heterosexual / straight Declared disabled Black EO 640 595 30610 30930
In post 2023 Heterosexual / straight Declared disabled Black G6/G7 145 140 59330 56430
In post 2023 Heterosexual / straight Declared disabled Black SCS level 10 10 [c] [c]
In post 2023 Heterosexual / straight Declared disabled Black SEO/HEO 425 420 39270 39150
In post 2023 Heterosexual / straight Declared disabled Black Unknown 275 265 33170 30840
In post 2023 Heterosexual / straight Declared disabled Mixed AA/AO 240 210 23900 22500
In post 2023 Heterosexual / straight Declared disabled Mixed EO 285 265 29580 28120
In post 2023 Heterosexual / straight Declared disabled Mixed G6/G7 140 135 60140 58670
In post 2023 Heterosexual / straight Declared disabled Mixed SCS level 15 15 [c] [c]
In post 2023 Heterosexual / straight Declared disabled Mixed SEO/HEO 290 280 38040 37300
In post 2023 Heterosexual / straight Declared disabled Mixed Unknown 135 130 31970 29210
In post 2023 Heterosexual / straight Declared disabled Other ethnicity AA/AO 40 35 24460 23280
In post 2023 Heterosexual / straight Declared disabled Other ethnicity EO 75 70 29860 29460
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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.
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.
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).