Civil Service Statistics data browser (2026)

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Status	Year	Ethnicity	Responsibility_level_ungrouped	Responsibility_level_grouped	Headcount	FTE	Mean_salary	Median_salary
In post	2026	Asian	AA	AA/AO	635	580	29250	28630
In post	2026	Asian	AO	AA/AO	10030	9010	29010	28020
In post	2026	Asian	EO	EO	14830	13860	34230	32140
In post	2026	Asian	G6	G6/G7	1255	1225	80460	79480
In post	2026	Asian	G7	G6/G7	4405	4300	64950	64000
In post	2026	Asian	HEO	SEO/HEO	7920	7660	40780	39560
In post	2026	Asian	SCS level	SCS level	360	345	108910	97680
In post	2026	Asian	SEO	SEO/HEO	5420	5300	49340	48520
In post	2026	Asian	Unknown	Unknown	1450	1360	32280	29460
In post	2026	Black	AA	AA/AO	885	855	31010	30660
In post	2026	Black	AO	AA/AO	7025	6680	32600	31470
In post	2026	Black	EO	EO	8315	7925	34550	33740
In post	2026	Black	G6	G6/G7	320	310	79800	79510
In post	2026	Black	G7	G6/G7	1765	1740	65050	63770
In post	2026	Black	HEO	SEO/HEO	3770	3675	41110	40470
In post	2026	Black	SCS level	SCS level	105	105	108320	95590
In post	2026	Black	SEO	SEO/HEO	2795	2755	49470	49060
In post	2026	Black	Unknown	Unknown	1680	1585	34660	31920
In post	2026	Mixed	AA	AA/AO	220	200	29600	29610
In post	2026	Mixed	AO	AA/AO	2135	1965	30330	28020
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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).
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.
Responsibility_level_ungrouped	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_ungrouped shows the mapped grades at a higher level of detail, however not all Government Departments / bodies have distinct grades that map exactly to these levels so figures should be considered as approximations and treated with caution.
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).