Civil Service Statistics data browser (2025)

Data preview: All civil servants / Responsibility_level_grouped / Age / Ethnicity

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Status Year Responsibility_level_grouped Age Ethnicity Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2025 AA/AO 16-19 Asian 80 80 26680 26640
In post 2025 AA/AO 16-19 Black 10 10 [c] [c]
In post 2025 AA/AO 16-19 Mixed 20 20 [c] [c]
In post 2025 AA/AO 16-19 Other ethnicity 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2025 AA/AO 16-19 Undeclared [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2025 AA/AO 16-19 Unknown 255 250 26090 26340
In post 2025 AA/AO 16-19 White 495 485 26640 26340
In post 2025 AA/AO 20-29 Asian 2650 2560 27390 26640
In post 2025 AA/AO 20-29 Black 1025 1000 30160 28490
In post 2025 AA/AO 20-29 Mixed 745 725 29040 26750
In post 2025 AA/AO 20-29 Other ethnicity 165 160 28970 26750
In post 2025 AA/AO 20-29 Undeclared 355 345 28680 26750
In post 2025 AA/AO 20-29 Unknown 7235 7035 28340 26750
In post 2025 AA/AO 20-29 White 14730 14380 28980 26750
In post 2025 AA/AO 30-39 Asian 2175 1960 27610 26640
In post 2025 AA/AO 30-39 Black 1810 1755 31430 30750
In post 2025 AA/AO 30-39 Mixed 555 510 29560 26750
In post 2025 AA/AO 30-39 Other ethnicity 135 125 29550 27990
In post 2025 AA/AO 30-39 Undeclared 635 600 29180 26750
In post 2025 AA/AO 30-39 Unknown 5680 5300 29150 26750
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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).
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.
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).