Civil Service Statistics data browser (2025)

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Status	Year	Age	Function_of_post	Headcount	FTE	Mean_salary	Median_salary
In post	2025	16-19	Analysis	60	60	29330	28700
In post	2025	16-19	Commercial	10	10	[c]	[c]
In post	2025	16-19	Communications	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2025	16-19	Counter Fraud	15	15	[c]	[c]
In post	2025	16-19	Debt	40	40	26650	26640
In post	2025	16-19	Digital and Data	40	40	29220	29480
In post	2025	16-19	Finance	20	20	[c]	[c]
In post	2025	16-19	Grants Management	5	5	[c]	[c]
In post	2025	16-19	Internal Audit	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2025	16-19	Legal	25	25	[c]	[c]
In post	2025	16-19	No function	750	735	26990	26640
In post	2025	16-19	People	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2025	16-19	Project Delivery	55	55	25130	24400
In post	2025	16-19	Property	45	45	27930	26730
In post	2025	16-19	Security	15	15	[c]	[c]
In post	2025	16-19	Unknown	85	85	27160	26340
In post	2025	20-29	Analysis	3980	3955	43510	41820
In post	2025	20-29	Commercial	1240	1230	40250	37100
In post	2025	20-29	Communications	990	980	41010	40160
In post	2025	20-29	Counter Fraud	1650	1635	33210	30980

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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 2025-07-16

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.
	Five 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, United Kingdom Statistics Authority, Scottish Forestry and Forest and Land Scotland.
Year	Year of data collection (as at 31 March).
Function_of_post	Functions relate to the post occupied by the person and are not dependent on qualifications the individual may have.
	Of the 21 bodies under the Scottish Government, 16 did not report any functions information for their employees.
Age	Age in 10 year bands. Age is calculated as at the reference date in each year (31st March), so entrants or leavers may have been up to one year younger at the date of exit or entry.
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).