Civil Service Statistics data browser (2024)

Data preview: All civil servants / Parent_department / Responsibility_level_ungrouped / Sex / Responsibility_level_grouped

Status Year Parent_department Responsibility_level_ungrouped Sex Responsibility_level_grouped Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments AA Female AA/AO [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments AA Male AA/AO 10 10 [c] [c]
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments AO Female AA/AO 1190 1080 25090 24470
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments AO Male AA/AO 445 435 25070 24470
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments EO Female EO 1490 1385 30030 30130
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments EO Male EO 555 545 30140 30130
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments G6 Female G6/G7 790 710 73000 72500
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments G6 Male G6/G7 500 490 74660 72500
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments G7 Female G6/G7 2665 2430 58800 58000
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments G7 Male G6/G7 1445 1395 59710 59000
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments HEO Female SEO/HEO 685 655 36150 35300
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments HEO Male SEO/HEO 365 355 36310 35300
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments SCS level Female SCS level 205 195 91550 86500
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments SCS level Male SCS level 130 130 94370 89280
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments SEO Female SEO/HEO 480 460 41860 41480
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments SEO Male SEO/HEO 305 300 42350 41880
In post 2024 Cabinet Office AO Female AA/AO 230 205 25310 24750
In post 2024 Cabinet Office AO Male AA/AO 185 175 25650 24750
In post 2024 Cabinet Office EO Female EO 545 515 29650 28390
In post 2024 Cabinet Office EO Male EO 355 350 29380 28190
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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.
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).