Civil Service Statistics data browser (2024)

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

Status Year Ethnicity Sex Responsibility_level_ungrouped Responsibility_level_grouped Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2024 Asian Female AA AA/AO 285 235 24620 24250
In post 2024 Asian Female AO AA/AO 4995 4225 25350 24280
In post 2024 Asian Female EO EO 6685 6030 30890 29630
In post 2024 Asian Female G6 G6/G7 610 590 73580 72310
In post 2024 Asian Female G7 G6/G7 1965 1900 59450 58630
In post 2024 Asian Female HEO SEO/HEO 3650 3500 37120 36580
In post 2024 Asian Female SCS level SCS level 185 175 99440 89890
In post 2024 Asian Female SEO SEO/HEO 2445 2365 44770 44420
In post 2024 Asian Female Unknown Unknown 805 745 30300 28350
In post 2024 Asian Male AA AA/AO 360 340 25500 25630
In post 2024 Asian Male AO AA/AO 3890 3705 26400 24280
In post 2024 Asian Male EO EO 5445 5320 30640 29500
In post 2024 Asian Male G6 G6/G7 470 460 74590 73200
In post 2024 Asian Male G7 G6/G7 1735 1715 59910 59000
In post 2024 Asian Male HEO SEO/HEO 3270 3205 37200 36580
In post 2024 Asian Male SCS level SCS level 175 170 99290 93140
In post 2024 Asian Male SEO SEO/HEO 2055 2035 45590 44450
In post 2024 Asian Male Unknown Unknown 375 355 30370 28350
In post 2024 Asian Unknown AA AA/AO [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2024 Asian Unknown AO AA/AO [c] [c] [c] [c]
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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.
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.
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).