Civil Service Statistics data browser (2026)

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

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Status	Year	Ethnicity	Region_london	Sexual_orientation	Headcount	FTE	Mean_salary	Median_salary
In post	2026	Asian	London	Heterosexual / straight	14695	13985	47120	43130
In post	2026	Asian	London	LGBO	445	430	49740	44980
In post	2026	Asian	London	Undeclared	1085	1010	45890	40070
In post	2026	Asian	London	Unknown	1380	1295	44880	38000
In post	2026	Asian	Outside London	Heterosexual / straight	24680	23205	36670	32140
In post	2026	Asian	Outside London	LGBO	605	575	36580	32140
In post	2026	Asian	Outside London	Undeclared	1285	1180	36430	32140
In post	2026	Asian	Outside London	Unknown	1885	1725	35580	32140
In post	2026	Asian	Overseas	Heterosexual / straight	165	165	58960	55210
In post	2026	Asian	Overseas	LGBO	10	10	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	Asian	Overseas	Undeclared	10	10	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	Asian	Overseas	Unknown	20	20	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	Asian	Unknown	Heterosexual / straight	30	30	42820	35530
In post	2026	Asian	Unknown	LGBO	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	Asian	Unknown	Undeclared	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	Asian	Unknown	Unknown	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	Black	London	Heterosexual / straight	10480	10060	43300	39530
In post	2026	Black	London	LGBO	270	265	45560	40860
In post	2026	Black	London	Undeclared	605	565	43130	37380
In post	2026	Black	London	Unknown	765	710	41970	37460
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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).
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".
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.
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.
	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).