Civil Service Statistics data browser (2024)

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Status Year Sexual_orientation Function_of_post Responsibility_level_ungrouped Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2024 Heterosexual / straight Analysis AA 10 10 [c] [c]
In post 2024 Heterosexual / straight Analysis AO 160 150 25000 24270
In post 2024 Heterosexual / straight Analysis EO 675 635 29510 29500
In post 2024 Heterosexual / straight Analysis G6 615 585 76620 73550
In post 2024 Heterosexual / straight Analysis G7 1905 1815 58400 58000
In post 2024 Heterosexual / straight Analysis HEO 1640 1585 35840 35710
In post 2024 Heterosexual / straight Analysis SCS level 180 175 94590 87590
In post 2024 Heterosexual / straight Analysis SEO 1700 1635 43920 43500
In post 2024 Heterosexual / straight Analysis Unknown [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2024 Heterosexual / straight Commercial AA 15 10 [c] [c]
In post 2024 Heterosexual / straight Commercial AO 215 200 24980 23850
In post 2024 Heterosexual / straight Commercial EO 590 560 29250 28700
In post 2024 Heterosexual / straight Commercial G6 615 600 76910 74720
In post 2024 Heterosexual / straight Commercial G7 1315 1285 61550 59150
In post 2024 Heterosexual / straight Commercial HEO 1140 1100 35500 35300
In post 2024 Heterosexual / straight Commercial SCS level 260 255 116840 109850
In post 2024 Heterosexual / straight Commercial SEO 1550 1500 43940 43940
In post 2024 Heterosexual / straight Commercial Unknown [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2024 Heterosexual / straight Communications AA [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2024 Heterosexual / straight Communications AO 205 195 25110 24270
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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_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.
Function_of_post Functions relate to the post occupied by the person and are not dependent on qualifications the individual may have.
Welsh Government and Royal Fleet Auxiliary did not report any functions information for their employees.
Of the 20 bodies under the Scottish Government, 16 did not report any functions information for their employees.
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).