Civil Service Statistics data browser (2024)

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

Status Year Disability Sexual_orientation Ethnicity Responsibility_level_grouped Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2024 Declared disabled Heterosexual / straight Asian AA/AO 885 770 25520 24270
In post 2024 Declared disabled Heterosexual / straight Asian EO 1265 1150 30980 29500
In post 2024 Declared disabled Heterosexual / straight Asian G6/G7 360 350 63000 60430
In post 2024 Declared disabled Heterosexual / straight Asian SCS level 25 25 [c] [c]
In post 2024 Declared disabled Heterosexual / straight Asian SEO/HEO 950 915 40250 39790
In post 2024 Declared disabled Heterosexual / straight Asian Unknown 175 165 31370 30210
In post 2024 Declared disabled Heterosexual / straight Black AA/AO 440 395 27290 27000
In post 2024 Declared disabled Heterosexual / straight Black EO 770 720 32030 32480
In post 2024 Declared disabled Heterosexual / straight Black G6/G7 165 160 62490 60540
In post 2024 Declared disabled Heterosexual / straight Black SCS level 10 10 [c] [c]
In post 2024 Declared disabled Heterosexual / straight Black SEO/HEO 520 505 41010 40200
In post 2024 Declared disabled Heterosexual / straight Black Unknown 310 290 34690 33010
In post 2024 Declared disabled Heterosexual / straight Mixed AA/AO 275 245 25980 24280
In post 2024 Declared disabled Heterosexual / straight Mixed EO 320 295 30900 29500
In post 2024 Declared disabled Heterosexual / straight Mixed G6/G7 175 170 62470 60830
In post 2024 Declared disabled Heterosexual / straight Mixed SCS level 15 15 [c] [c]
In post 2024 Declared disabled Heterosexual / straight Mixed SEO/HEO 345 330 40090 39440
In post 2024 Declared disabled Heterosexual / straight Mixed Unknown 150 145 32870 31580
In post 2024 Declared disabled Heterosexual / straight Other ethnicity AA/AO 50 45 26030 24800
In post 2024 Declared disabled Heterosexual / straight Other ethnicity EO 105 95 31440 30470
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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 2024-07-24

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).