Civil Service Statistics data browser (2026)

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Status	Year	Function_of_post	Profession_of_post	Headcount	FTE	Mean_salary	Median_salary
In post	2026	Analysis	Actuary	140	130	92480	91640
In post	2026	Analysis	Clinical	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	Analysis	Commercial	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	Analysis	Communications	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	Analysis	Counter Fraud	40	40	37400	34910
In post	2026	Analysis	Debt	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	Analysis	Digital and Data	950	930	46830	44160
In post	2026	Analysis	Economics	2665	2615	57230	58300
In post	2026	Analysis	Finance	250	215	38010	32140
In post	2026	Analysis	Geography	575	545	39100	38950
In post	2026	Analysis	Human Resources	25	25	49210	46230
In post	2026	Analysis	Intelligence Analysis	330	320	45290	42830
In post	2026	Analysis	Internal Audit	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	Analysis	Knowledge and Information Management	75	70	52320	49640
In post	2026	Analysis	Legal	15	15	36160	35000
In post	2026	Analysis	Operational Delivery	1685	1580	39680	37680
In post	2026	Analysis	Operational Research	1550	1490	54020	52450
In post	2026	Analysis	Other	335	330	53550	50470
In post	2026	Analysis	Planning	60	55	57220	57520
In post	2026	Analysis	Policy	300	295	58940	61850
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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.
Profession_of_post	Professions relate to the post occupied by the person and are not dependent on qualifications the individual may have.
	Three bodies did not report any professions information for their employees. These are as follows: Scottish Forestry, Forestry and Land Scotland and Serious Fraud Office.
	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).