Civil Service Statistics data browser (2024)

Data preview: All civil servants / Profession_of_post / Organisation / Parent_department / Responsibility_level_ungrouped

Status Year Profession_of_post Organisation Parent_department Responsibility_level_ungrouped Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2024 Commercial Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service Department for Business and Trade EO [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2024 Commercial Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service Department for Business and Trade HEO [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2024 Commercial Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service Department for Business and Trade SEO [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2024 Commercial Animal and Plant Health Agency Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs AO 10 5 [c] [c]
In post 2024 Commercial Animal and Plant Health Agency Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs EO [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2024 Commercial Animal and Plant Health Agency Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs G6 [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2024 Commercial Animal and Plant Health Agency Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs G7 [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2024 Commercial Animal and Plant Health Agency Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs HEO [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2024 Commercial Animal and Plant Health Agency Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs SEO 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2024 Commercial Building Digital UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology EO [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2024 Commercial Building Digital UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology G7 [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2024 Commercial Building Digital UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology HEO 30 30 36540 36860
In post 2024 Commercial Cabinet Office (excl. agencies) Cabinet Office AO [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2024 Commercial Cabinet Office (excl. agencies) Cabinet Office EO 20 20 29330 27820
In post 2024 Commercial Cabinet Office (excl. agencies) Cabinet Office G6 35 35 76220 72180
In post 2024 Commercial Cabinet Office (excl. agencies) Cabinet Office G7 50 50 59280 58800
In post 2024 Commercial Cabinet Office (excl. agencies) Cabinet Office HEO 25 25 36210 35400
In post 2024 Commercial Cabinet Office (excl. agencies) Cabinet Office SCS level 30 30 118780 119300
In post 2024 Commercial Cabinet Office (excl. agencies) Cabinet Office SEO 25 25 41640 40850
In post 2024 Commercial Central Civil Service Fast Stream Cabinet Office HEO 95 95 32020 31970
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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.
Organisation Executive Agencies, Ministerial and Non-Ministerial Departments, Crown Non-departmental Public Bodies.
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_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.
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.
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).