Civil Service Statistics data browser (2024)

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

Status Year Sex Responsibility_level_grouped Profession_of_post Responsibility_level_ungrouped Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2024 Female AA/AO Commercial AA 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2024 Female AA/AO Commercial AO 175 160 25690 24510
In post 2024 Female AA/AO Communications AA [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2024 Female AA/AO Communications AO 200 180 24880 24270
In post 2024 Female AA/AO Corporate Finance AO [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2024 Female AA/AO Counter Fraud AA 10 10 [c] [c]
In post 2024 Female AA/AO Counter Fraud AO 1090 890 24990 24270
In post 2024 Female AA/AO Digital, Data and Technology AA 15 15 [c] [c]
In post 2024 Female AA/AO Digital, Data and Technology AO 190 175 25310 25000
In post 2024 Female AA/AO Economics AO 45 45 25870 25010
In post 2024 Female AA/AO Finance AA 20 15 [c] [c]
In post 2024 Female AA/AO Finance AO 660 575 25450 25000
In post 2024 Female AA/AO Geography AO 25 25 [c] [c]
In post 2024 Female AA/AO Human Resources AA 25 25 [c] [c]
In post 2024 Female AA/AO Human Resources AO 715 640 25300 25000
In post 2024 Female AA/AO Intelligence Analysis AO 55 50 26810 26790
In post 2024 Female AA/AO Internal Audit AO 10 5 [c] [c]
In post 2024 Female AA/AO International Trade AO [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2024 Female AA/AO Knowledge and Information Management AA 10 10 [c] [c]
In post 2024 Female AA/AO Knowledge and Information Management AO 255 235 25220 25000
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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.
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).