Civil Service Statistics data browser (2026)

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

Status Year Ethnicity Parent_department Responsibility_level_grouped Sex Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2026 Asian Attorney General’s Departments AA/AO Female 155 140 27830 28500
In post 2026 Asian Attorney General’s Departments AA/AO Male 50 45 28380 28500
In post 2026 Asian Attorney General’s Departments AA/AO Unknown [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2026 Asian Attorney General’s Departments EO Female 180 170 32980 32430
In post 2026 Asian Attorney General’s Departments EO Male 60 60 33180 33740
In post 2026 Asian Attorney General’s Departments EO Unknown [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2026 Asian Attorney General’s Departments G6/G7 Female 425 395 67400 65820
In post 2026 Asian Attorney General’s Departments G6/G7 Male 190 185 66910 64930
In post 2026 Asian Attorney General’s Departments G6/G7 Unknown [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2026 Asian Attorney General’s Departments SCS level Female 10 10 [c] [c]
In post 2026 Asian Attorney General’s Departments SCS level Male 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2026 Asian Attorney General’s Departments SCS level Unknown [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2026 Asian Attorney General’s Departments SEO/HEO Female 100 95 41970 39890
In post 2026 Asian Attorney General’s Departments SEO/HEO Male 60 60 42370 43500
In post 2026 Asian Attorney General’s Departments SEO/HEO Unknown [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2026 Asian Cabinet Office AA/AO Female 15 15 [c] [c]
In post 2026 Asian Cabinet Office AA/AO Male 10 10 [c] [c]
In post 2026 Asian Cabinet Office AA/AO Unknown [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2026 Asian Cabinet Office EO Female 50 50 33120 34280
In post 2026 Asian Cabinet Office EO Male 20 20 [c] [c]
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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).
Parent_department Government Department, total figures for both Ministerial and Non-Ministerial Departments include all of their Executive Agencies.
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.
Sex Self reported sex.
"Unknown" accounts for employees who were recorded with an unknown sex.
Figures on sex presented here are based on management information provided by departments, which records the ‘legal sex’ of civil servants. ‘Legal sex’ does not align with ‘sex’ as defined by The Equality Act 2010.
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).