Civil Service Statistics data browser (2024)

Data preview: All civil servants / Region_london / Sexual_orientation / Responsibility_level_grouped / Ethnicity

Status Year Region_london Sexual_orientation Responsibility_level_grouped Ethnicity Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2024 London Heterosexual / straight AA/AO Asian 1870 1685 28630 28250
In post 2024 London Heterosexual / straight AA/AO Black 1945 1835 30340 28800
In post 2024 London Heterosexual / straight AA/AO Mixed 325 305 30690 28800
In post 2024 London Heterosexual / straight AA/AO Other ethnicity 145 135 30020 28610
In post 2024 London Heterosexual / straight AA/AO Undeclared 135 125 29020 27220
In post 2024 London Heterosexual / straight AA/AO Unknown 115 105 29970 28700
In post 2024 London Heterosexual / straight AA/AO White 2900 2700 30010 28610
In post 2024 London Heterosexual / straight EO Asian 3750 3495 32940 33120
In post 2024 London Heterosexual / straight EO Black 2815 2685 33250 33980
In post 2024 London Heterosexual / straight EO Mixed 570 545 33240 33510
In post 2024 London Heterosexual / straight EO Other ethnicity 285 270 33030 33980
In post 2024 London Heterosexual / straight EO Undeclared 280 260 33310 33600
In post 2024 London Heterosexual / straight EO Unknown 185 180 32770 32090
In post 2024 London Heterosexual / straight EO White 5195 4910 33660 33000
In post 2024 London Heterosexual / straight G6/G7 Asian 2535 2475 64330 62040
In post 2024 London Heterosexual / straight G6/G7 Black 1120 1105 63260 61560
In post 2024 London Heterosexual / straight G6/G7 Mixed 780 760 64010 62020
In post 2024 London Heterosexual / straight G6/G7 Other ethnicity 270 260 64570 61250
In post 2024 London Heterosexual / straight G6/G7 Undeclared 175 170 66360 64070
In post 2024 London Heterosexual / straight G6/G7 Unknown 380 370 64160 60680
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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 2024-07-25

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.
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".
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.
Sexual_orientation Self reported sexual orientation.
"Undeclared" accounts for employees who have actively declared that they do not want to disclose their sexual orientation and "Unknown" accounts for employees who have not made an active declaration about their sexual orientation.
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).