Civil Service Statistics data browser (2024)

Data preview: All civil servants / Parent_department / Sexual_orientation / Responsibility_level_grouped / Ethnicity

Status Year Parent_department Sexual_orientation Responsibility_level_grouped Ethnicity Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments Heterosexual / straight AA/AO Asian 215 200 25310 26140
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments Heterosexual / straight AA/AO Black 115 105 25830 26190
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments Heterosexual / straight AA/AO Mixed 40 35 25080 24480
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments Heterosexual / straight AA/AO Other ethnicity 10 10 [c] [c]
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments Heterosexual / straight AA/AO Undeclared 15 10 [c] [c]
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments Heterosexual / straight AA/AO Unknown 20 20 [c] [c]
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments Heterosexual / straight AA/AO White 835 775 24910 24470
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments Heterosexual / straight EO Asian 225 210 29880 30130
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments Heterosexual / straight EO Black 135 130 30200 30130
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments Heterosexual / straight EO Mixed 55 55 30300 30130
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments Heterosexual / straight EO Other ethnicity 15 15 [c] [c]
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments Heterosexual / straight EO Undeclared 15 15 [c] [c]
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments Heterosexual / straight EO Unknown 35 35 29920 30130
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments Heterosexual / straight EO White 1030 975 29970 30130
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments Heterosexual / straight G6/G7 Asian 515 485 60980 58000
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments Heterosexual / straight G6/G7 Black 215 210 61860 58360
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments Heterosexual / straight G6/G7 Mixed 130 120 61920 60000
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments Heterosexual / straight G6/G7 Other ethnicity 35 35 62550 58360
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments Heterosexual / straight G6/G7 Undeclared 15 15 [c] [c]
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments Heterosexual / straight G6/G7 Unknown 80 80 61440 58000
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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.
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.
Ethnicity Self reported ethnicity. "Undeclared" accounts for employees who have actively declared that they do not want to disclose their ethnicity and "Unknown" accounts for employees who have not made an active declaration about their ethnicity.
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).