Civil Service Statistics data browser (2024)

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Status Year Region_london Responsibility_level_ungrouped Responsibility_level_grouped Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2024 London AA AA/AO 1455 1345 27550 26180
In post 2024 London AO AA/AO 10380 9630 29930 28610
In post 2024 London EO EO 20430 19325 33190 32920
In post 2024 London G6 G6/G7 9730 9360 74240 72600
In post 2024 London G7 G6/G7 21270 20665 60790 59150
In post 2024 London HEO SEO/HEO 19530 19060 38840 38620
In post 2024 London SCS level SCS level 4395 4245 97650 88000
In post 2024 London SEO SEO/HEO 16725 16330 46620 45910
In post 2024 London Unknown Unknown 2710 2560 37090 34330
In post 2024 Outside London AA AA/AO 15830 14240 24490 24970
In post 2024 Outside London AO AA/AO 107700 97555 26380 24280
In post 2024 Outside London EO EO 115370 107035 30120 29500
In post 2024 Outside London G6 G6/G7 12005 11545 73960 72530
In post 2024 Outside London G7 G6/G7 36185 34815 58500 57670
In post 2024 Outside London HEO SEO/HEO 68860 65790 36300 35710
In post 2024 Outside London SCS level SCS level 2820 2735 97460 89890
In post 2024 Outside London SEO SEO/HEO 50505 48540 44820 43680
In post 2024 Outside London Unknown Unknown 20375 18860 31320 30210
In post 2024 Overseas AO AA/AO 65 65 31070 28120
In post 2024 Overseas EO EO 365 355 32390 29400
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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.
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.
Region_london Workplace postcode data are used to derive geographical information using the International Territorial Level (ITL) classification standard.
Region_london groups the ITL classifications into "London", "Outside London": all UK regions excluding London, "Overseas", and "Unknown".
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).