Civil Service Statistics data browser (2024)

Data preview: All civil servants / Parent_department / Ethnicity

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Status Year Parent_department Ethnicity Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments Asian 1345 1265 45340 42360
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments Black 675 650 43960 36250
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments Mixed 345 330 47930 48280
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments Other ethnicity 110 100 46880 42650
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments Undeclared 195 185 48200 46750
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments Unknown 1095 1025 51420 56170
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments White 7495 7015 48660 51260
In post 2024 Cabinet Office Asian 840 825 45990 38250
In post 2024 Cabinet Office Black 390 385 46160 39550
In post 2024 Cabinet Office Mixed 345 340 49000 40780
In post 2024 Cabinet Office Other ethnicity 95 95 46250 40600
In post 2024 Cabinet Office Undeclared 325 320 52360 53400
In post 2024 Cabinet Office Unknown 1435 1405 49690 44500
In post 2024 Cabinet Office White 7300 7130 52380 44500
In post 2024 Chancellor’s other departments Asian 55 55 53690 49370
In post 2024 Chancellor’s other departments Black 20 20 [c] [c]
In post 2024 Chancellor’s other departments Mixed 15 15 [c] [c]
In post 2024 Chancellor’s other departments Other ethnicity [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2024 Chancellor’s other departments Undeclared 35 35 63660 61210
In post 2024 Chancellor’s other departments Unknown 10 10 [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.
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).