Civil Service Statistics data browser (2024)

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Status Year Sex Responsibility_level_grouped Profession_of_post Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2024 Female AA/AO Commercial 180 165 25620 24510
In post 2024 Female AA/AO Communications 205 180 24840 24270
In post 2024 Female AA/AO Corporate Finance [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2024 Female AA/AO Counter Fraud 1100 900 24970 24270
In post 2024 Female AA/AO Digital, Data and Technology 205 190 25200 25000
In post 2024 Female AA/AO Economics 45 45 25870 25010
In post 2024 Female AA/AO Finance 675 590 25380 25000
In post 2024 Female AA/AO Geography 25 25 [c] [c]
In post 2024 Female AA/AO Human Resources 740 665 25250 25000
In post 2024 Female AA/AO Intelligence Analysis 55 50 26810 26790
In post 2024 Female AA/AO Internal Audit 10 5 [c] [c]
In post 2024 Female AA/AO International Trade [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2024 Female AA/AO Knowledge and Information Management 265 245 25120 25000
In post 2024 Female AA/AO Legal 85 70 25000 24280
In post 2024 Female AA/AO Medicine 305 280 26180 26650
In post 2024 Female AA/AO Operational Delivery 64890 55950 25590 24280
In post 2024 Female AA/AO Operational Research 40 40 24020 24270
In post 2024 Female AA/AO Other 990 880 25270 24800
In post 2024 Female AA/AO Planning 15 10 [c] [c]
In post 2024 Female AA/AO Policy 345 320 26330 26900
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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).