Civil Service Statistics data browser (2024)

Data preview: All civil servants / Age / Sex / Responsibility_level_grouped / Responsibility_level_ungrouped

Status Year Age Sex Responsibility_level_grouped Responsibility_level_ungrouped Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2024 16-19 Female AA/AO AA 120 115 23880 24970
In post 2024 16-19 Female AA/AO AO 480 475 25370 24280
In post 2024 16-19 Female EO EO 105 105 28940 28350
In post 2024 16-19 Female SEO/HEO HEO [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2024 16-19 Female Unknown Unknown 45 45 21410 20130
In post 2024 16-19 Male AA/AO AA 110 110 22970 21370
In post 2024 16-19 Male AA/AO AO 545 540 25720 24330
In post 2024 16-19 Male EO EO 145 145 28140 28120
In post 2024 16-19 Male SEO/HEO HEO [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2024 16-19 Male Unknown Unknown 60 55 22720 24390
In post 2024 20-29 Female AA/AO AA 1635 1555 24900 25630
In post 2024 20-29 Female AA/AO AO 12960 12485 26700 24800
In post 2024 20-29 Female EO EO 13485 13265 30120 29500
In post 2024 20-29 Female G6/G7 G6 180 180 70440 69870
In post 2024 20-29 Female G6/G7 G7 2885 2870 57650 57500
In post 2024 20-29 Female SCS level SCS level 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2024 20-29 Female SEO/HEO HEO 10210 10140 35830 35710
In post 2024 20-29 Female SEO/HEO SEO 4895 4860 43820 43330
In post 2024 20-29 Female Unknown Unknown 4100 3965 26920 25310
In post 2024 20-29 Male AA/AO AA 1310 1290 25010 25630
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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 2024-07-25

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.
Responsibility_level_ungrouped 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_ungrouped shows the mapped grades at a higher level of detail, however not all Government Departments / bodies have distinct grades that map exactly to these levels so figures should be considered as approximations and treated with caution.
Sex Self reported sex.
"Unknown" accounts for employees who were recorded with an unknown sex.
Age Age in 10 year bands. Age is calculated as at the reference date in each year (31st March), so entrants or leavers may have been up to one year younger at the date of exit or entry.
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).