Civil Service Statistics data browser (2025)

Data preview: All civil servants / Ethnicity / Age

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Status	Year	Ethnicity	Age	Headcount	FTE	Mean_salary	Median_salary
In post	2025	Asian	16-19	125	120	28080	26640
In post	2025	Asian	20-29	9340	9165	33810	30980
In post	2025	Asian	30-39	11795	11245	39490	35680
In post	2025	Asian	40-49	11345	10560	41420	35680
In post	2025	Asian	50-59	7385	6920	40840	35680
In post	2025	Asian	60-64	1995	1700	38070	34330
In post	2025	Asian	65+	1025	800	36700	32690
In post	2025	Asian	Unknown	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2025	Black	16-19	20	20	[c]	[c]
In post	2025	Black	20-29	3150	3105	34160	32810
In post	2025	Black	30-39	6230	6075	37350	34650
In post	2025	Black	40-49	5580	5375	39280	35680
In post	2025	Black	50-59	5335	5155	40190	35680
In post	2025	Black	60-64	2230	2030	38240	35010
In post	2025	Black	65+	785	665	35660	33320
In post	2025	Black	Unknown	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2025	Mixed	16-19	30	30	27110	26340
In post	2025	Mixed	20-29	2775	2730	35940	34080
In post	2025	Mixed	30-39	3495	3350	43310	38300
In post	2025	Mixed	40-49	2520	2395	45640	39470

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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).
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.
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).