Civil Service Statistics data browser (2025)

Data preview: All civil servants / Sexual_orientation / Parent_department

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Status Year Sexual_orientation Parent_department Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2025 Heterosexual / straight Attorney General’s Departments 7600 7125 50850 54210
In post 2025 Heterosexual / straight Cabinet Office 7085 6890 57050 56070
In post 2025 Heterosexual / straight Chancellor’s other departments 365 355 66710 55410
In post 2025 Heterosexual / straight Charity Commission 275 260 43360 36840
In post 2025 Heterosexual / straight Competition and Markets Authority 930 900 67610 63630
In post 2025 Heterosexual / straight Department for Business and Trade 6705 6440 47400 44940
In post 2025 Heterosexual / straight Department for Culture, Media and Sport 715 685 55630 57510
In post 2025 Heterosexual / straight Department for Education 6365 6105 50210 46090
In post 2025 Heterosexual / straight Department for Energy Security and Net Zero 3260 3180 58020 59820
In post 2025 Heterosexual / straight Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 9980 9455 41830 38260
In post 2025 Heterosexual / straight Department for Science, Innovation and Technology 4870 4660 50140 46970
In post 2025 Heterosexual / straight Department for Transport 10625 9910 39440 34150
In post 2025 Heterosexual / straight Department for Work and Pensions 73340 66340 33900 30980
In post 2025 Heterosexual / straight Department of Health and Social Care 7020 6745 52590 46250
In post 2025 Heterosexual / straight Estyn 120 115 69490 86550
In post 2025 Heterosexual / straight Food Standards Agency 1105 1070 44570 41900
In post 2025 Heterosexual / straight Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office 5545 5440 53680 49500
In post 2025 Heterosexual / straight HM Land Registry 3840 3430 37600 34920
In post 2025 Heterosexual / straight HM Revenue and Customs 43360 40390 40760 37680
In post 2025 Heterosexual / straight HM Treasury 1935 1870 56050 56340
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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.
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).