Civil Service Statistics data browser (2025)

Data preview: All civil servants / Parent_department / Responsibility_level_ungrouped / Sex / Responsibility_level_grouped

Status Year Parent_department Responsibility_level_ungrouped Sex Responsibility_level_grouped Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2025 Attorney General’s Departments AA Female AA/AO [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2025 Attorney General’s Departments AA Male AA/AO 10 10 [c] [c]
In post 2025 Attorney General’s Departments AO Female AA/AO 1155 1040 26580 25700
In post 2025 Attorney General’s Departments AO Male AA/AO 405 395 26640 25700
In post 2025 Attorney General’s Departments EO Female EO 1530 1420 31680 31350
In post 2025 Attorney General’s Departments EO Male EO 560 550 31780 31350
In post 2025 Attorney General’s Departments G6 Female G6/G7 830 745 76700 77500
In post 2025 Attorney General’s Departments G6 Male G6/G7 515 500 77880 77500
In post 2025 Attorney General’s Departments G7 Female G6/G7 2735 2495 61660 61200
In post 2025 Attorney General’s Departments G7 Male G6/G7 1475 1420 62420 61200
In post 2025 Attorney General’s Departments HEO Female SEO/HEO 690 660 37840 36740
In post 2025 Attorney General’s Departments HEO Male SEO/HEO 355 350 38140 36740
In post 2025 Attorney General’s Departments SCS level Female SCS level 230 220 94810 89480
In post 2025 Attorney General’s Departments SCS level Male SCS level 125 125 97900 93170
In post 2025 Attorney General’s Departments SEO Female SEO/HEO 460 450 43810 43280
In post 2025 Attorney General’s Departments SEO Male SEO/HEO 280 280 44240 43890
In post 2025 Cabinet Office AO Female AA/AO 215 190 26690 25990
In post 2025 Cabinet Office AO Male AA/AO 155 150 26940 25990
In post 2025 Cabinet Office EO Female EO 520 490 30910 29950
In post 2025 Cabinet Office EO Male EO 335 330 30640 29600
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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.
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.
Sex Self reported sex.
"Unknown" accounts for employees who were recorded with an unknown sex.
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).