Civil Service Statistics data browser (2025)

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

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Status Year Sexual_orientation Responsibility_level_grouped Region_london Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2025 Heterosexual / straight AA/AO London 7320 6735 31600 30150
In post 2025 Heterosexual / straight AA/AO Outside London 78045 70440 28190 26640
In post 2025 Heterosexual / straight AA/AO Overseas 35 35 32760 30240
In post 2025 Heterosexual / straight AA/AO Unknown 95 90 29350 27280
In post 2025 Heterosexual / straight EO London 13445 12695 35100 35180
In post 2025 Heterosexual / straight EO Outside London 81340 75280 31590 30980
In post 2025 Heterosexual / straight EO Overseas 250 245 34200 30980
In post 2025 Heterosexual / straight EO Unknown 150 145 30820 30980
In post 2025 Heterosexual / straight G6/G7 London 21395 20670 68610 66330
In post 2025 Heterosexual / straight G6/G7 Outside London 38460 36920 65020 62380
In post 2025 Heterosexual / straight G6/G7 Overseas 705 700 69480 66050
In post 2025 Heterosexual / straight G6/G7 Unknown 135 125 64180 61740
In post 2025 Heterosexual / straight SCS level London 3225 3100 101120 91680
In post 2025 Heterosexual / straight SCS level Outside London 2340 2275 100670 92770
In post 2025 Heterosexual / straight SCS level Overseas 195 195 100330 89490
In post 2025 Heterosexual / straight SCS level Unknown 15 15 [c] [c]
In post 2025 Heterosexual / straight SEO/HEO London 22870 22220 45250 44850
In post 2025 Heterosexual / straight SEO/HEO Outside London 89065 85020 41900 41420
In post 2025 Heterosexual / straight SEO/HEO Overseas 1035 1030 47900 43420
In post 2025 Heterosexual / straight SEO/HEO Unknown 200 190 44290 41670
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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.
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).