Civil Service Statistics data browser (2022)

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

Status Year Sex Sexual_orientation Responsibility_level_grouped Profession_of_post Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2022 Female Heterosexual / straight AA/AO Commercial 95 85 22210 21260
In post 2022 Female Heterosexual / straight AA/AO Communications 80 70 22260 21500
In post 2022 Female Heterosexual / straight AA/AO Corporate Finance [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2022 Female Heterosexual / straight AA/AO Counter Fraud 645 535 22470 21260
In post 2022 Female Heterosexual / straight AA/AO Digital, Data and Technology 195 185 21800 21290
In post 2022 Female Heterosexual / straight AA/AO Economics 20 20 [c] [c]
In post 2022 Female Heterosexual / straight AA/AO Finance 460 405 21980 21380
In post 2022 Female Heterosexual / straight AA/AO Geography 15 15 [c] [c]
In post 2022 Female Heterosexual / straight AA/AO Human Resources 695 620 22010 21380
In post 2022 Female Heterosexual / straight AA/AO Intelligence Analysis 55 50 23450 21960
In post 2022 Female Heterosexual / straight AA/AO Internal Audit 10 5 [c] [c]
In post 2022 Female Heterosexual / straight AA/AO International Trade [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2022 Female Heterosexual / straight AA/AO Knowledge and Information Management 160 150 22190 21380
In post 2022 Female Heterosexual / straight AA/AO Legal 95 85 22340 22080
In post 2022 Female Heterosexual / straight AA/AO Medicine 215 195 23240 23280
In post 2022 Female Heterosexual / straight AA/AO Operational Delivery 37680 32100 22230 21260
In post 2022 Female Heterosexual / straight AA/AO Operational Research 15 10 [c] [c]
In post 2022 Female Heterosexual / straight AA/AO Other 4905 4425 21470 21260
In post 2022 Female Heterosexual / straight AA/AO Planning [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2022 Female Heterosexual / straight AA/AO Policy 310 290 23620 23960
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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 2023-02-15, with GIT 71a76ea.

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.
Five 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, Defence Electronics and Components Agency, 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.
Organisation specific notes on status: In late June 2021 around 7,000 employees from Community Rehabilitation Companies were transferred in from the private sector to HM Prison and Probation Service, counting as entrants. HM Land Registry do not record where their departing employees transfer to and so are unable to identify those that transfer to another Civil Service department.
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.
Profession_of_post Professions relate to the post occupied by the person and are not dependent on qualifications the individual may have.
Cabinet Office (excl agencies) reported profession information for only 60 out of a total 9,930 employees.
Of the 20 bodies under the Scottish Government, 16 did not report any professions information for their employees.
Sex Self reported sex.
“Unknown” accounts for employees who were recorded with an unknown sex.
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).