Civil Service Statistics data browser (2025)

Data preview: All civil servants / Responsibility_level_grouped / Sexual_orientation / Responsibility_level_ungrouped / Disability

Status Year Responsibility_level_grouped Sexual_orientation Responsibility_level_ungrouped Disability Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2025 AA/AO Heterosexual / straight AA Declared disabled 1530 1335 26720 27800
In post 2025 AA/AO Heterosexual / straight AA Declared non-disabled 7325 6685 26910 27840
In post 2025 AA/AO Heterosexual / straight AA Undeclared 545 475 27350 27840
In post 2025 AA/AO Heterosexual / straight AA Unknown 850 775 27660 26990
In post 2025 AA/AO Heterosexual / straight AO Declared disabled 11480 10000 27600 26340
In post 2025 AA/AO Heterosexual / straight AO Declared non-disabled 55245 50225 28950 26640
In post 2025 AA/AO Heterosexual / straight AO Undeclared 2945 2615 28730 26640
In post 2025 AA/AO Heterosexual / straight AO Unknown 5580 5190 28280 26750
In post 2025 AA/AO LGBO AA Declared disabled 210 195 27040 27840
In post 2025 AA/AO LGBO AA Declared non-disabled 490 470 27190 27840
In post 2025 AA/AO LGBO AA Undeclared 55 50 27010 27840
In post 2025 AA/AO LGBO AA Unknown 45 45 27570 27800
In post 2025 AA/AO LGBO AO Declared disabled 1585 1485 27820 26340
In post 2025 AA/AO LGBO AO Declared non-disabled 3330 3195 29210 26640
In post 2025 AA/AO LGBO AO Undeclared 315 300 28560 26640
In post 2025 AA/AO LGBO AO Unknown 390 375 27760 26750
In post 2025 AA/AO Undeclared AA Declared disabled 165 145 26380 26240
In post 2025 AA/AO Undeclared AA Declared non-disabled 565 485 26080 26240
In post 2025 AA/AO Undeclared AA Undeclared 260 235 26910 26990
In post 2025 AA/AO Undeclared AA Unknown 65 60 26430 26240
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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 2025-07-21

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.
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.
Disability Self reported disability.
"Undeclared" accounts for employees who have actively declared that they do not want to disclose their disability status and "Unknown" accounts for employees who have not made an active declaration about their disability status.
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).