Civil Service Statistics data browser (2024)

Data preview: All civil servants / Function_of_post / Organisation / Responsibility_level_grouped / Parent_department

Status Year Function_of_post Organisation Responsibility_level_grouped Parent_department Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2024 Analysis Active Travel England G6/G7 Department for Transport [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2024 Analysis Active Travel England SEO/HEO Department for Transport [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2024 Analysis Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service G6/G7 Department for Business and Trade [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2024 Analysis Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service SEO/HEO Department for Business and Trade 10 10 45140 48020
In post 2024 Analysis Attorney General’s Office G6/G7 Attorney General’s Departments [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2024 Analysis Building Digital UK G6/G7 Department for Science, Innovation and Technology 10 10 [c] [c]
In post 2024 Analysis Building Digital UK SEO/HEO Department for Science, Innovation and Technology 15 15 41450 41300
In post 2024 Analysis Cabinet Office (excl. agencies) EO Cabinet Office [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2024 Analysis Cabinet Office (excl. agencies) G6/G7 Cabinet Office 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2024 Analysis Cabinet Office (excl. agencies) SCS level Cabinet Office [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2024 Analysis Cabinet Office (excl. agencies) SEO/HEO Cabinet Office 15 15 39350 38250
In post 2024 Analysis Central Civil Service Fast Stream SEO/HEO Cabinet Office 115 115 32430 31970
In post 2024 Analysis Charity Commission AA/AO Charity Commission [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2024 Analysis Charity Commission EO Charity Commission [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2024 Analysis Charity Commission G6/G7 Charity Commission [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2024 Analysis Charity Commission SEO/HEO Charity Commission 25 25 36950 35090
In post 2024 Analysis Companies House EO Department for Business and Trade [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2024 Analysis Companies House G6/G7 Department for Business and Trade [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2024 Analysis Companies House SEO/HEO Department for Business and Trade 10 10 43160 41540
In post 2024 Analysis Competition and Markets Authority AA/AO Competition and Markets Authority [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 2024-07-24

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).
Parent_department Government Department, total figures for both Ministerial and Non-Ministerial Departments include all of their Executive Agencies.
On 8 July 2024, the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities changed its name to the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government.
Organisation Executive Agencies, Ministerial and Non-Ministerial Departments, Crown Non-departmental Public Bodies.
On 8 July 2024, the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities changed its name to the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government.
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.
Function_of_post Functions relate to the post occupied by the person and are not dependent on qualifications the individual may have.
Welsh Government and Royal Fleet Auxiliary did not report any functions information for their employees.
Of the 20 bodies under the Scottish Government, 16 did not report any functions information for their employees.
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).