Civil Service Statistics data browser (2025)

Data preview: All civil servants / Parent_department / Sexual_orientation / Ethnicity

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Status Year Parent_department Sexual_orientation Ethnicity Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2025 Attorney General’s Departments Heterosexual / straight Asian 1065 1005 48780 45920
In post 2025 Attorney General’s Departments Heterosexual / straight Black 530 510 47180 38630
In post 2025 Attorney General’s Departments Heterosexual / straight Mixed 280 260 51300 54080
In post 2025 Attorney General’s Departments Heterosexual / straight Other ethnicity 70 70 51580 55020
In post 2025 Attorney General’s Departments Heterosexual / straight Undeclared 50 45 44300 33240
In post 2025 Attorney General’s Departments Heterosexual / straight Unknown 150 145 49970 54210
In post 2025 Attorney General’s Departments Heterosexual / straight White 5460 5090 51660 54210
In post 2025 Attorney General’s Departments LGBO Asian 30 30 53360 60400
In post 2025 Attorney General’s Departments LGBO Black 15 15 [c] [c]
In post 2025 Attorney General’s Departments LGBO Mixed 20 20 [c] [c]
In post 2025 Attorney General’s Departments LGBO Other ethnicity [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2025 Attorney General’s Departments LGBO Undeclared [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2025 Attorney General’s Departments LGBO Unknown 15 15 [c] [c]
In post 2025 Attorney General’s Departments LGBO White 490 475 50540 44780
In post 2025 Attorney General’s Departments Undeclared Asian 15 15 [c] [c]
In post 2025 Attorney General’s Departments Undeclared Black 15 15 [c] [c]
In post 2025 Attorney General’s Departments Undeclared Mixed 10 10 [c] [c]
In post 2025 Attorney General’s Departments Undeclared Other ethnicity 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2025 Attorney General’s Departments Undeclared Undeclared 110 100 54760 59430
In post 2025 Attorney General’s Departments Undeclared Unknown 15 15 [c] [c]
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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.
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).