Civil Service Statistics data browser (2025)

Data preview: All civil servants / Parent_department / Responsibility_level_grouped

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Status Year Parent_department Responsibility_level_grouped Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2025 Attorney General’s Departments AA/AO 1570 1440 26580 25700
In post 2025 Attorney General’s Departments EO 2090 1970 31710 31350
In post 2025 Attorney General’s Departments G6/G7 5555 5160 65620 63370
In post 2025 Attorney General’s Departments SCS level 360 340 95890 91090
In post 2025 Attorney General’s Departments SEO/HEO 1790 1735 40450 38630
In post 2025 Cabinet Office AA/AO 370 340 26790 25990
In post 2025 Cabinet Office EO 855 825 30810 29950
In post 2025 Cabinet Office G6/G7 4460 4370 66730 62760
In post 2025 Cabinet Office SCS level 770 750 109930 102640
In post 2025 Cabinet Office SEO/HEO 5060 4980 38560 37170
In post 2025 Chancellor’s other departments AA/AO 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2025 Chancellor’s other departments EO 40 35 32620 33460
In post 2025 Chancellor’s other departments G6/G7 250 240 80860 74430
In post 2025 Chancellor’s other departments SCS level 20 15 123440 113600
In post 2025 Chancellor’s other departments SEO/HEO 160 160 46130 46850
In post 2025 Charity Commission AA/AO 10 10 26980 26870
In post 2025 Charity Commission EO 110 100 30230 30060
In post 2025 Charity Commission G6/G7 80 75 63220 59600
In post 2025 Charity Commission SCS level 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2025 Charity Commission SEO/HEO 250 240 40560 36840
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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).
Parent_department Government Department, total figures for both Ministerial and Non-Ministerial Departments include all of their Executive Agencies.
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.
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).