Civil Service Statistics data browser (2026)

Data preview: All civil servants / Parent_department / Profession_of_post

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Status	Year	Parent_department	Profession_of_post	Headcount	FTE	Mean_salary	Median_salary
In post	2026	Attorney General’s Departments	Commercial	55	50	48160	44020
In post	2026	Attorney General’s Departments	Communications	100	100	46880	45020
In post	2026	Attorney General’s Departments	Cyber	10	10	48750	45870
In post	2026	Attorney General’s Departments	Digital and Data	220	215	50950	45020
In post	2026	Attorney General’s Departments	Finance	125	120	47010	39890
In post	2026	Attorney General’s Departments	Human Resources	315	305	45300	38980
In post	2026	Attorney General’s Departments	Knowledge and Information Management	75	70	44620	36760
In post	2026	Attorney General’s Departments	Legal	6420	5985	65740	63850
In post	2026	Attorney General’s Departments	Operational Delivery	4055	3800	32460	32110
In post	2026	Attorney General’s Departments	Other	20	20	53850	44830
In post	2026	Attorney General’s Departments	Policy	135	130	56260	58330
In post	2026	Attorney General’s Departments	Project Delivery	165	160	49090	44340
In post	2026	Attorney General’s Departments	Property	30	30	47180	39890
In post	2026	Attorney General’s Departments	Risk Management	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	Attorney General’s Departments	Security	55	55	43420	38000
In post	2026	Attorney General’s Departments	Social Research	10	10	47110	43800
In post	2026	Attorney General’s Departments	Statistics	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	Attorney General’s Departments	Unknown	610	595	50380	45470
In post	2026	Cabinet Office	Clinical	10	10	53870	47950
In post	2026	Cabinet Office	Commercial	2255	2210	71270	73800
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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.
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).