Civil Service Statistics data browser (2025)

Data preview: All civil servants / Responsibility_level_ungrouped / Region_london / Sexual_orientation

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Status	Year	Responsibility_level_ungrouped	Region_london	Sexual_orientation	Headcount	FTE	Mean_salary	Median_salary
In post	2025	AA	London	Heterosexual / straight	915	845	29440	27820
In post	2025	AA	London	LGBO	60	55	29560	31660
In post	2025	AA	London	Undeclared	105	95	28820	27800
In post	2025	AA	London	Unknown	305	285	29790	29540
In post	2025	AA	Outside London	Heterosexual / straight	9310	8415	26730	27840
In post	2025	AA	Outside London	LGBO	740	705	26990	27840
In post	2025	AA	Outside London	Undeclared	950	825	26090	26240
In post	2025	AA	Outside London	Unknown	3475	3120	27100	27840
In post	2025	AA	Unknown	Heterosexual / straight	15	15	[c]	[c]
In post	2025	AA	Unknown	LGBO	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2025	AA	Unknown	Unknown	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2025	AO	London	Heterosexual / straight	6400	5895	31900	30580
In post	2025	AO	London	LGBO	315	295	32290	30120
In post	2025	AO	London	Undeclared	875	785	30420	30070
In post	2025	AO	London	Unknown	2295	2125	31320	30070
In post	2025	AO	Outside London	Heterosexual / straight	68730	62025	28380	26640
In post	2025	AO	Outside London	LGBO	5295	5050	28470	26640
In post	2025	AO	Outside London	Undeclared	7775	6825	27740	26340
In post	2025	AO	Outside London	Unknown	23175	20945	28000	26640
In post	2025	AO	Overseas	Heterosexual / straight	35	35	32760	30240

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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_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.
Region_london	Workplace postcode data are used to derive geographical information using the International Territorial Level (ITL) classification standard.
	Region_london groups the ITL classifications into "London", "Outside London": all UK regions excluding London, "Overseas", and "Unknown".
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).