Civil Service Statistics data browser (2024)

Data preview: All civil servants / Parent_department / Region_london / Sex

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Status Year Parent_department Region_london Sex Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments London Female 3265 3030 53270 58000
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments London Male 1780 1745 54700 58000
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments Outside London Female 4240 3880 42110 35500
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments Outside London Male 1970 1915 47000 51260
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments Overseas Female [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments Overseas Male [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2024 Cabinet Office London Female 2835 2770 52670 44590
In post 2024 Cabinet Office London Male 2585 2560 57540 58800
In post 2024 Cabinet Office Outside London Female 2715 2610 45420 40850
In post 2024 Cabinet Office Outside London Male 2340 2300 48800 40850
In post 2024 Cabinet Office Unknown Female 135 130 48950 44500
In post 2024 Cabinet Office Unknown Male 130 125 53480 44500
In post 2024 Chancellor’s other departments London Female 155 145 62000 53330
In post 2024 Chancellor’s other departments London Male 205 200 68210 60860
In post 2024 Chancellor’s other departments Outside London Female 40 40 57140 49470
In post 2024 Chancellor’s other departments Outside London Male 50 50 51670 48530
In post 2024 Charity Commission London Female 40 40 56420 55590
In post 2024 Charity Commission London Male 25 25 [c] [c]
In post 2024 Charity Commission Outside London Female 245 230 38150 35090
In post 2024 Charity Commission Outside London Male 160 155 39770 35090
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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.
Region_london Workplace postcode data are used to derive geographical information using the International Territorial Level (ITL) classification standard.
Region_london groups the ITL classifications into "London", "Outside London": all UK regions excluding London, "Overseas", and "Unknown".
Sex Self reported sex.
"Unknown" accounts for employees who were recorded with an unknown sex.
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).