Civil Service Statistics data browser (2024)

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

Status Year Parent_department Region_london Sexual_orientation Sex Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments London Heterosexual / straight Female 2345 2185 52670 57650
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments London Heterosexual / straight Male 1195 1175 53870 58000
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments London Heterosexual / straight Unknown [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments London LGBO Female 140 135 52420 58000
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments London LGBO Male 165 165 55990 58000
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments London LGBO Unknown [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments London Undeclared Female 160 150 53630 58000
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments London Undeclared Male 100 100 54250 58000
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments London Unknown Female 620 560 55670 58000
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments London Unknown Male 320 305 57340 60000
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments Outside London Heterosexual / straight Female 3285 3030 41830 35500
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments Outside London Heterosexual / straight Male 1430 1395 46660 51260
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments Outside London Heterosexual / straight Unknown [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments Outside London LGBO Female 170 165 37320 30130
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments Outside London LGBO Male 145 140 42330 33670
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments Outside London LGBO Unknown [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments Outside London Undeclared Female 135 130 39560 33670
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments Outside London Undeclared Male 70 70 45340 43430
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments Outside London Unknown Female 645 555 45320 47540
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments Outside London Unknown Male 325 310 50930 57290
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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).
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.
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).