Civil Service Statistics data browser (2026)

Data preview: All civil servants / Parent_department / Ethnicity

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Status	Year	Parent_department	Ethnicity	Headcount	FTE	Mean_salary	Median_salary
In post	2026	Attorney General’s Departments	Asian	1235	1160	51440	55980
In post	2026	Attorney General’s Departments	Black	640	610	49310	44340
In post	2026	Attorney General’s Departments	Mixed	340	320	54700	59640
In post	2026	Attorney General’s Departments	Other ethnicity	100	95	53470	57490
In post	2026	Attorney General’s Departments	Undeclared	195	185	54890	58200
In post	2026	Attorney General’s Departments	Unknown	3115	3005	48000	44520
In post	2026	Attorney General’s Departments	White	6780	6290	54410	56780
In post	2026	Cabinet Office	Asian	850	840	48770	41210
In post	2026	Cabinet Office	Black	350	345	49730	42550
In post	2026	Cabinet Office	Mixed	320	315	51950	41710
In post	2026	Cabinet Office	Other ethnicity	75	75	44960	38600
In post	2026	Cabinet Office	Undeclared	340	330	55370	50590
In post	2026	Cabinet Office	Unknown	1450	1420	52510	44550
In post	2026	Cabinet Office	White	6850	6705	55650	48520
In post	2026	Chancellor’s other departments	Asian	65	65	55990	51370
In post	2026	Chancellor’s other departments	Black	25	25	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	Chancellor’s other departments	Mixed	20	20	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	Chancellor’s other departments	Other ethnicity	5	5	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	Chancellor’s other departments	Undeclared	30	30	70300	68360
In post	2026	Chancellor’s other departments	Unknown	10	10	[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.
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).