Civil Service Statistics data browser (2026)

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Status	Year	Parent_department	Responsibility_level_grouped	Responsibility_level_ungrouped	Headcount	FTE	Mean_salary	Median_salary
In post	2026	Attorney General’s Departments	AA/AO	AA	10	10	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	Attorney General’s Departments	AA/AO	AO	1705	1580	27550	26700
In post	2026	Attorney General’s Departments	EO	EO	2410	2280	32820	32430
In post	2026	Attorney General’s Departments	G6/G7	G6	1435	1320	80020	80020
In post	2026	Attorney General’s Departments	G6/G7	G7	4485	4185	63920	63190
In post	2026	Attorney General’s Departments	SCS level	SCS level	370	350	99110	93350
In post	2026	Attorney General’s Departments	SEO/HEO	HEO	1115	1080	39120	38000
In post	2026	Attorney General’s Departments	SEO/HEO	SEO	875	860	45650	45010
In post	2026	Cabinet Office	AA/AO	AO	385	345	30870	27410
In post	2026	Cabinet Office	EO	EO	705	680	32080	31010
In post	2026	Cabinet Office	G6/G7	G6	1180	1165	77770	75840
In post	2026	Cabinet Office	G6/G7	G7	2565	2510	64800	64120
In post	2026	Cabinet Office	SCS level	SCS level	690	675	109660	103390
In post	2026	Cabinet Office	SEO/HEO	HEO	3320	3285	36770	38000
In post	2026	Cabinet Office	SEO/HEO	SEO	1395	1370	46750	47950
In post	2026	Chancellor’s other departments	AA/AO	AO	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	Chancellor’s other departments	EO	EO	45	45	33950	34540
In post	2026	Chancellor’s other departments	G6/G7	G6	145	135	98720	91640
In post	2026	Chancellor’s other departments	G6/G7	G7	130	125	62360	62640
In post	2026	Chancellor’s other departments	SCS level	SCS level	20	20	130120	117800
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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.
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.
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).