Civil Service Statistics data browser (2024)

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Status Year Parent_department Responsibility_level_grouped Responsibility_level_ungrouped Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments AA/AO AA 10 10 22160 22520
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments AA/AO AO 1640 1515 25080 24470
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments EO EO 2045 1930 30060 30130
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments G6/G7 G6 1290 1195 73650 72500
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments G6/G7 G7 4110 3825 59120 58000
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments SCS level SCS level 335 320 92640 87110
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments SEO/HEO HEO 1050 1010 36210 35300
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments SEO/HEO SEO 780 765 42050 41720
In post 2024 Cabinet Office AA/AO AO 415 380 25460 24750
In post 2024 Cabinet Office EO EO 900 865 29540 28350
In post 2024 Cabinet Office G6/G7 G6 1255 1240 72430 69200
In post 2024 Cabinet Office G6/G7 G7 2885 2825 60200 58800
In post 2024 Cabinet Office SCS level SCS level 720 705 108010 101210
In post 2024 Cabinet Office SEO/HEO HEO 3130 3090 34360 35300
In post 2024 Cabinet Office SEO/HEO SEO 1420 1395 43110 43580
In post 2024 Chancellor’s other departments AA/AO AO 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2024 Chancellor’s other departments EO EO 40 40 31120 31860
In post 2024 Chancellor’s other departments G6/G7 G6 130 120 92740 85370
In post 2024 Chancellor’s other departments G6/G7 G7 100 100 58230 58070
In post 2024 Chancellor’s other departments SCS level SCS level 20 20 122750 115690
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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.
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.
Responsibility_level_ungrouped 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_ungrouped shows the mapped grades at a higher level of detail, however not all Government Departments / bodies have distinct grades that map exactly to these levels so figures should be considered as approximations and treated with caution.
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).