Civil Service Statistics data browser (2024)

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

Status Year Sexual_orientation Sex Ethnicity Responsibility_level_grouped Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2024 Heterosexual / straight Female Asian AA/AO 4205 3590 25270 24280
In post 2024 Heterosexual / straight Female Asian EO 5610 5095 30860 29500
In post 2024 Heterosexual / straight Female Asian G6/G7 2235 2155 62780 60180
In post 2024 Heterosexual / straight Female Asian SCS level 155 145 97620 87580
In post 2024 Heterosexual / straight Female Asian SEO/HEO 5180 4985 40280 39790
In post 2024 Heterosexual / straight Female Asian Unknown 770 710 30210 28350
In post 2024 Heterosexual / straight Female Black AA/AO 2305 2100 27060 27000
In post 2024 Heterosexual / straight Female Black EO 3315 3120 31750 32260
In post 2024 Heterosexual / straight Female Black G6/G7 980 965 62000 59390
In post 2024 Heterosexual / straight Female Black SCS level 50 50 95810 88600
In post 2024 Heterosexual / straight Female Black SEO/HEO 2900 2845 40800 40330
In post 2024 Heterosexual / straight Female Black Unknown 910 860 33020 31160
In post 2024 Heterosexual / straight Female Mixed AA/AO 965 860 26320 24470
In post 2024 Heterosexual / straight Female Mixed EO 1205 1115 30770 29500
In post 2024 Heterosexual / straight Female Mixed G6/G7 760 725 62700 60180
In post 2024 Heterosexual / straight Female Mixed SCS level 70 70 90290 83840
In post 2024 Heterosexual / straight Female Mixed SEO/HEO 1375 1335 40190 39460
In post 2024 Heterosexual / straight Female Mixed Unknown 485 455 32330 30210
In post 2024 Heterosexual / straight Female Other ethnicity AA/AO 265 240 26440 25400
In post 2024 Heterosexual / straight Female Other ethnicity EO 380 355 31320 30970
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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.
Sex Self reported sex.
"Unknown" accounts for employees who were recorded with an unknown sex.
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).