Civil Service Statistics data browser (2026)

Data preview: All civil servants / Ethnicity / Function_of_post

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Status	Year	Ethnicity	Function_of_post	Headcount	FTE	Mean_salary	Median_salary
In post	2026	Asian	Analysis	1385	1350	48070	44420
In post	2026	Asian	Commercial	520	515	53160	47250
In post	2026	Asian	Communications	255	250	45970	44000
In post	2026	Asian	Counter Fraud	1795	1680	37030	35620
In post	2026	Asian	Debt	1055	940	30200	28020
In post	2026	Asian	Digital and Data	3225	3180	52240	48320
In post	2026	Asian	Finance	1065	1040	49030	45660
In post	2026	Asian	Grants	105	100	38440	34870
In post	2026	Asian	Internal Audit	80	75	54750	52700
In post	2026	Asian	Legal	1395	1315	53210	56780
In post	2026	Asian	No function	31320	29215	37840	32580
In post	2026	Asian	People	870	835	44570	39740
In post	2026	Asian	Project Delivery	1280	1250	50480	47120
In post	2026	Asian	Property	525	500	42250	38030
In post	2026	Asian	Security	495	480	43270	41120
In post	2026	Asian	Unknown	940	920	43850	38000
In post	2026	Black	Analysis	485	480	44990	42710
In post	2026	Black	Commercial	260	255	51460	46650
In post	2026	Black	Communications	150	150	43890	40950
In post	2026	Black	Counter Fraud	970	910	36360	36900
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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 2026-07-16

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.
Year	Year of data collection (as at 31 March).
Function_of_post	Functions relate to the post occupied by the person and are not dependent on qualifications the individual may have.
	Of the 21 bodies under the Scottish Government, 16 did not report any functions information for their employees.
	The Serious Fraud Office have not reported any data for profession, function, ethnicity, disabilty and sexual orientation due to alignment concerns with these fields with external reporting criteria. The Serious Fraud Office is currently undertaking work to ensure a robust dataset is reported for the 2027 ACSES return.
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.
	The Serious Fraud Office have not reported any data for profession, function, ethnicity, disabilty and sexual orientation due to alignment concerns with these fields with external reporting criteria. The Serious Fraud Office is currently undertaking work to ensure a robust dataset is reported for the 2027 ACSES return.
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).