Civil Service Statistics data browser (2025)

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

Status	Year	Sex	Responsibility_level_ungrouped	Region_london	Sexual_orientation	Headcount	FTE	Mean_salary	Median_salary
In post	2025	Female	AA	London	Heterosexual / straight	460	405	28980	27800
In post	2025	Female	AA	London	LGBO	35	30	29490	31660
In post	2025	Female	AA	London	Undeclared	55	50	28590	27800
In post	2025	Female	AA	London	Unknown	150	140	29720	29620
In post	2025	Female	AA	Outside London	Heterosexual / straight	4375	3765	26380	27840
In post	2025	Female	AA	Outside London	LGBO	485	460	27120	27840
In post	2025	Female	AA	Outside London	Undeclared	490	400	25740	26240
In post	2025	Female	AA	Outside London	Unknown	1725	1480	26750	26570
In post	2025	Female	AA	Unknown	Heterosexual / straight	5	5	[c]	[c]
In post	2025	Female	AA	Unknown	LGBO	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2025	Female	AA	Unknown	Undeclared	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2025	Female	AA	Unknown	Unknown	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2025	Female	AO	London	Heterosexual / straight	3545	3135	30610	30070
In post	2025	Female	AO	London	LGBO	170	155	32360	30360
In post	2025	Female	AO	London	Undeclared	555	485	29970	28680
In post	2025	Female	AO	London	Unknown	1315	1185	30360	30070
In post	2025	Female	AO	Outside London	Heterosexual / straight	38605	33140	27240	26340
In post	2025	Female	AO	Outside London	LGBO	3010	2840	28910	26640
In post	2025	Female	AO	Outside London	Undeclared	4415	3675	26870	26340
In post	2025	Female	AO	Outside London	Unknown	12640	10895	27170	26640

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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 2025-07-17

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".
Sex	Self reported sex.
	"Unknown" accounts for employees who were recorded with an unknown sex.
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).