Civil Service Statistics data browser (2024)

Data preview: All civil servants / Parent_department / Region_london

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Status Year Parent_department Region_london Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments London 5045 4775 53780 58000
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments Outside London 6210 5795 43660 40500
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments Overseas [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2024 Cabinet Office London 5415 5335 54990 58800
In post 2024 Cabinet Office Outside London 5055 4915 46980 40850
In post 2024 Cabinet Office Unknown 260 260 51160 44500
In post 2024 Chancellor’s other departments London 360 345 65550 57670
In post 2024 Chancellor’s other departments Outside London 90 90 54070 48530
In post 2024 Charity Commission London 65 65 55750 48140
In post 2024 Charity Commission Outside London 405 385 38790 35090
In post 2024 Competition and Markets Authority London 860 835 67070 61400
In post 2024 Competition and Markets Authority Outside London 215 210 56380 49220
In post 2024 Department for Business and Trade London 4495 4410 50870 45720
In post 2024 Department for Business and Trade Outside London 4940 4685 36460 33630
In post 2024 Department for Business and Trade Overseas 175 175 60440 58690
In post 2024 Department for Culture, Media and Sport London 775 750 53890 55360
In post 2024 Department for Culture, Media and Sport Outside London 195 195 43060 37670
In post 2024 Department for Education London 2360 2270 54240 57500
In post 2024 Department for Education Outside London 6245 6015 44990 39930
In post 2024 Department for Energy Security and Net Zero London 3195 3135 54110 56080
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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".
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).