Civil Service Statistics data browser (2024)

Data preview: All civil servants / Profession_of_post / Sex / Parent_department

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Status Year Profession_of_post Sex Parent_department Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2024 Commercial Female Attorney General’s Departments 25 25 [c] [c]
In post 2024 Commercial Female Cabinet Office 1000 975 63720 60760
In post 2024 Commercial Female Chancellor’s other departments 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2024 Commercial Female Charity Commission [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2024 Commercial Female Competition and Markets Authority [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2024 Commercial Female Department for Business and Trade 50 50 43260 43010
In post 2024 Commercial Female Department for Culture, Media and Sport 10 10 [c] [c]
In post 2024 Commercial Female Department for Education 110 105 45540 40980
In post 2024 Commercial Female Department for Energy Security and Net Zero 15 15 [c] [c]
In post 2024 Commercial Female Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 120 115 38570 39630
In post 2024 Commercial Female Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities 30 30 41250 39460
In post 2024 Commercial Female Department for Science, Innovation and Technology 40 40 43900 42500
In post 2024 Commercial Female Department for Transport 200 185 40910 37390
In post 2024 Commercial Female Department for Work and Pensions 160 150 40820 40200
In post 2024 Commercial Female Department of Health and Social Care 115 110 43970 40310
In post 2024 Commercial Female Estyn [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2024 Commercial Female Food Standards Agency 10 10 [c] [c]
In post 2024 Commercial Female Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office 100 100 44340 42510
In post 2024 Commercial Female HM Land Registry 15 15 [c] [c]
In post 2024 Commercial Female HM Revenue and Customs 35 30 39890 43700
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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.
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.
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).