Civil Service Statistics data browser (2024)

Data preview: All civil servants / Profession_of_post / Ethnicity

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Status Year Profession_of_post Ethnicity Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2024 Commercial Asian 395 390 48000 43010
In post 2024 Commercial Black 240 235 45990 40980
In post 2024 Commercial Mixed 140 135 49370 44040
In post 2024 Commercial Other ethnicity 40 35 44820 44160
In post 2024 Commercial Undeclared 235 230 50740 45190
In post 2024 Commercial Unknown 745 730 43520 39630
In post 2024 Commercial White 5385 5205 50980 44580
In post 2024 Communications Asian 240 235 40160 37500
In post 2024 Communications Black 130 130 40490 37240
In post 2024 Communications Mixed 125 120 46520 43820
In post 2024 Communications Other ethnicity 35 35 44920 42500
In post 2024 Communications Undeclared 130 120 43460 41500
In post 2024 Communications Unknown 835 820 46410 43080
In post 2024 Communications White 3355 3210 44990 41850
In post 2024 Corporate Finance Asian 15 15 [c] [c]
In post 2024 Corporate Finance Black [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2024 Corporate Finance Mixed [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2024 Corporate Finance Other ethnicity [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2024 Corporate Finance Undeclared 20 20 [c] [c]
In post 2024 Corporate Finance Unknown 10 10 [c] [c]
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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).
Profession_of_post Professions relate to the post occupied by the person and are not dependent on qualifications the individual may have.
Of the 20 bodies under the Scottish Government, 16 did not report any professions information for their employees.
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.
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).