Civil Service Statistics data browser (2026)

Data preview: All civil servants / Parent_department / Responsibility_level_ungrouped / Region_london / Sex

Status Year Parent_department Responsibility_level_ungrouped Region_london Sex Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2026 Attorney General’s Departments AA London Female [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2026 Attorney General’s Departments AA London Male [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2026 Attorney General’s Departments AA London Unknown [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2026 Attorney General’s Departments AA Outside London Female [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2026 Attorney General’s Departments AA Outside London Male [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2026 Attorney General’s Departments AO London Female 290 265 28810 28500
In post 2026 Attorney General’s Departments AO London Male 110 110 28870 28500
In post 2026 Attorney General’s Departments AO London Unknown 10 10 [c] [c]
In post 2026 Attorney General’s Departments AO Outside London Female 975 885 27160 26700
In post 2026 Attorney General’s Departments AO Outside London Male 315 310 27110 26700
In post 2026 Attorney General’s Departments EO London Female 555 525 34050 33740
In post 2026 Attorney General’s Departments EO London Male 235 230 34170 34280
In post 2026 Attorney General’s Departments EO London Unknown 110 110 31150 29840
In post 2026 Attorney General’s Departments EO Outside London Female 1145 1060 32270 32430
In post 2026 Attorney General’s Departments EO Outside London Male 360 355 32250 32430
In post 2026 Attorney General’s Departments EO Overseas Female [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2026 Attorney General’s Departments EO Overseas Male [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2026 Attorney General’s Departments G6 London Female 690 610 80190 80020
In post 2026 Attorney General’s Departments G6 London Male 350 340 80430 80020
In post 2026 Attorney General’s Departments G6 London Unknown 55 55 79610 77850
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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_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.
Region_london Workplace postcode data are used to derive geographical information using the International Territorial Level (ITL) classification standard.
Region_london groups the ITL classifications into "London", "Outside London": all UK regions excluding London, "Overseas", and "Unknown".
Sex Self reported sex.
"Unknown" accounts for employees who were recorded with an unknown sex.
Figures on sex presented here are based on management information provided by departments, which records the ‘legal sex’ of civil servants. ‘Legal sex’ does not align with ‘sex’ as defined by The Equality Act 2010.
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).