Civil Service Statistics data browser (2026)

Data preview: All civil servants / Responsibility_level_grouped / Age / Sex / Organisation

Status Year Responsibility_level_grouped Age Sex Organisation Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2026 AA/AO 16-19 Female Accountant in Bankruptcy [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2026 AA/AO 16-19 Female Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2026 AA/AO 16-19 Female Animal and Plant Health Agency 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2026 AA/AO 16-19 Female Attorney General’s Office [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2026 AA/AO 16-19 Female Building Digital UK [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2026 AA/AO 16-19 Female Cabinet Office (excl. agencies) [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2026 AA/AO 16-19 Female Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2026 AA/AO 16-19 Female Charity Commission [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2026 AA/AO 16-19 Female Companies House [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2026 AA/AO 16-19 Female Competition and Markets Authority [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2026 AA/AO 16-19 Female Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2026 AA/AO 16-19 Female Crown Commercial Service [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2026 AA/AO 16-19 Female Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service 15 15 [c] [c]
In post 2026 AA/AO 16-19 Female Crown Prosecution Service 15 15 [c] [c]
In post 2026 AA/AO 16-19 Female Defence Equipment and Support 15 15 [c] [c]
In post 2026 AA/AO 16-19 Female Defence Science and Technology Laboratory [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2026 AA/AO 16-19 Female Department for Business and Trade (excl. agencies) [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2026 AA/AO 16-19 Female Department for Culture, Media and Sport [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2026 AA/AO 16-19 Female Department for Education (excl. agencies) [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2026 AA/AO 16-19 Female Department for Energy Security and Net Zero [c] [c] [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).
Organisation Executive Agencies, Ministerial and Non-Ministerial Departments, Crown Non-departmental Public Bodies.
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.
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.
Age Age in 10 year bands. Age is calculated as at the reference date in each year (31st March), so entrants or leavers may have been up to one year younger at the date of exit or entry.
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).