Civil Service Statistics data browser (2024)

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

Status Year Responsibility_level_ungrouped Responsibility_level_grouped Ethnicity Sexual_orientation Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2024 AA AA/AO Asian Heterosexual / straight 510 455 25150 25630
In post 2024 AA AA/AO Asian LGBO 25 25 [c] [c]
In post 2024 AA AA/AO Asian Undeclared 60 55 24710 24840
In post 2024 AA AA/AO Asian Unknown 45 40 25020 24000
In post 2024 AA AA/AO Black Heterosexual / straight 520 490 26850 26180
In post 2024 AA AA/AO Black LGBO 20 20 [c] [c]
In post 2024 AA AA/AO Black Undeclared 30 30 26310 25630
In post 2024 AA AA/AO Black Unknown 55 50 28090 26920
In post 2024 AA AA/AO Mixed Heterosexual / straight 155 145 25350 25630
In post 2024 AA AA/AO Mixed LGBO 30 25 [c] [c]
In post 2024 AA AA/AO Mixed Undeclared 15 15 [c] [c]
In post 2024 AA AA/AO Mixed Unknown 15 10 [c] [c]
In post 2024 AA AA/AO Other ethnicity Heterosexual / straight 50 50 25850 25630
In post 2024 AA AA/AO Other ethnicity LGBO 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2024 AA AA/AO Other ethnicity Undeclared [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2024 AA AA/AO Other ethnicity Unknown 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2024 AA AA/AO Undeclared Heterosexual / straight 75 65 24400 24390
In post 2024 AA AA/AO Undeclared LGBO 10 5 [c] [c]
In post 2024 AA AA/AO Undeclared Undeclared 210 190 23890 23670
In post 2024 AA AA/AO Undeclared Unknown 30 25 24440 24000
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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.
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.
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).