Civil Service Statistics data browser (2024)

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

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Status Year Profession_of_post Sex Responsibility_level_grouped Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2024 Commercial Female AA/AO 180 165 25620 24510
In post 2024 Commercial Female EO 420 395 29190 28390
In post 2024 Commercial Female G6/G7 1085 1055 66240 64490
In post 2024 Commercial Female SCS level 105 105 111240 105880
In post 2024 Commercial Female SEO/HEO 2075 1980 40420 40200
In post 2024 Commercial Female Unknown 20 20 [c] [c]
In post 2024 Commercial Male AA/AO 160 155 25550 24920
In post 2024 Commercial Male EO 285 280 29390 28400
In post 2024 Commercial Male G6/G7 1165 1145 68060 69030
In post 2024 Commercial Male SCS level 145 140 121800 116280
In post 2024 Commercial Male SEO/HEO 1530 1510 41040 40850
In post 2024 Commercial Male Unknown 10 10 [c] [c]
In post 2024 Communications Female AA/AO 205 180 24840 24270
In post 2024 Communications Female EO 375 350 30050 29500
In post 2024 Communications Female G6/G7 730 695 62330 60970
In post 2024 Communications Female SCS level 60 55 91700 85920
In post 2024 Communications Female SEO/HEO 1595 1525 41130 41030
In post 2024 Communications Female Unknown 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2024 Communications Male AA/AO 135 135 25110 24270
In post 2024 Communications Male EO 250 240 30030 29500
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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).
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.
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).