Civil Service Statistics data browser (2025)

Data preview: All civil servants / Sexual_orientation / Sex / Ethnicity / Parent_department

Status Year Sexual_orientation Sex Ethnicity Parent_department Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2025 Heterosexual / straight Female Asian Attorney General’s Departments 760 705 48490 44570
In post 2025 Heterosexual / straight Female Asian Cabinet Office 345 335 51180 46730
In post 2025 Heterosexual / straight Female Asian Chancellor’s other departments 25 25 [c] [c]
In post 2025 Heterosexual / straight Female Asian Charity Commission 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2025 Heterosexual / straight Female Asian Competition and Markets Authority 75 70 52850 43940
In post 2025 Heterosexual / straight Female Asian Department for Business and Trade 435 415 44780 41510
In post 2025 Heterosexual / straight Female Asian Department for Culture, Media and Sport 40 40 56160 57230
In post 2025 Heterosexual / straight Female Asian Department for Education 500 475 45090 41460
In post 2025 Heterosexual / straight Female Asian Department for Energy Security and Net Zero 230 220 53220 48090
In post 2025 Heterosexual / straight Female Asian Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 375 355 39370 37480
In post 2025 Heterosexual / straight Female Asian Department for Science, Innovation and Technology 170 165 47960 44430
In post 2025 Heterosexual / straight Female Asian Department for Transport 310 290 42280 39230
In post 2025 Heterosexual / straight Female Asian Department for Work and Pensions 5190 4580 32900 30980
In post 2025 Heterosexual / straight Female Asian Department of Health and Social Care 720 685 48630 42940
In post 2025 Heterosexual / straight Female Asian Estyn [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2025 Heterosexual / straight Female Asian Food Standards Agency 35 35 49630 42740
In post 2025 Heterosexual / straight Female Asian Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office 280 270 47710 42200
In post 2025 Heterosexual / straight Female Asian HM Land Registry 95 85 34690 30960
In post 2025 Heterosexual / straight Female Asian HM Revenue and Customs 2565 2370 38400 35780
In post 2025 Heterosexual / straight Female Asian HM Treasury 155 150 50380 47880
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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).
Parent_department Government Department, total figures for both Ministerial and Non-Ministerial Departments include all of their Executive Agencies.
Sex Self reported sex.
"Unknown" accounts for employees who were recorded with an unknown sex.
Ethnicity Self reported ethnicity. "Undeclared" accounts for employees who have actively declared that they do not want to disclose their ethnicity and "Unknown" accounts for employees who have not made an active declaration about their ethnicity.
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).