Civil Service Statistics data browser (2026)

Data preview: All civil servants / Parent_department / Sexual_orientation / Sex

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Status	Year	Parent_department	Sexual_orientation	Sex	Headcount	FTE	Mean_salary	Median_salary
In post	2026	Attorney General’s Departments	Heterosexual / straight	Female	5230	4805	52710	56240
In post	2026	Attorney General’s Departments	Heterosexual / straight	Male	2250	2185	55640	59170
In post	2026	Attorney General’s Departments	Heterosexual / straight	Unknown	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	Attorney General’s Departments	LGBO	Female	310	300	49640	44430
In post	2026	Attorney General’s Departments	LGBO	Male	285	275	57030	61750
In post	2026	Attorney General’s Departments	LGBO	Unknown	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	Attorney General’s Departments	Undeclared	Female	285	270	54210	56780
In post	2026	Attorney General’s Departments	Undeclared	Male	140	135	56610	61120
In post	2026	Attorney General’s Departments	Unknown	Female	2300	2135	47780	39890
In post	2026	Attorney General’s Departments	Unknown	Male	1000	965	51900	46850
In post	2026	Attorney General’s Departments	Unknown	Unknown	610	595	50380	45470
In post	2026	Cabinet Office	Heterosexual / straight	Female	3130	3010	56200	50190
In post	2026	Cabinet Office	Heterosexual / straight	Male	2560	2530	61400	58460
In post	2026	Cabinet Office	Heterosexual / straight	Unknown	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	Cabinet Office	LGBO	Female	325	320	56560	48520
In post	2026	Cabinet Office	LGBO	Male	330	330	55610	49930
In post	2026	Cabinet Office	LGBO	Unknown	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	Cabinet Office	Undeclared	Female	240	235	56200	58230
In post	2026	Cabinet Office	Undeclared	Male	270	265	57730	58230
In post	2026	Cabinet Office	Unknown	Female	1675	1660	45530	38000
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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.
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.
Sexual_orientation	Self reported sexual orientation.
	"Undeclared" accounts for employees who have actively declared that they do not want to disclose their sexual orientation and "Unknown" accounts for employees who have not made an active declaration about their sexual orientation.
	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).