Civil Service Statistics data browser (2026)

Data preview: All civil servants / Responsibility_level_grouped / Ethnicity / Responsibility_level_ungrouped / Disability

Status Year Responsibility_level_grouped Ethnicity Responsibility_level_ungrouped Disability Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2026 AA/AO Asian AA Declared disabled 80 70 28770 27770
In post 2026 AA/AO Asian AA Declared non-disabled 475 435 29220 28630
In post 2026 AA/AO Asian AA Undeclared 25 20 [c] [c]
In post 2026 AA/AO Asian AA Unknown 55 50 29530 29260
In post 2026 AA/AO Asian AO Declared disabled 1135 985 28680 27840
In post 2026 AA/AO Asian AO Declared non-disabled 7615 6860 29070 28020
In post 2026 AA/AO Asian AO Undeclared 420 370 28800 27840
In post 2026 AA/AO Asian AO Unknown 860 795 29040 28020
In post 2026 AA/AO Black AA Declared disabled 70 65 31320 30660
In post 2026 AA/AO Black AA Declared non-disabled 715 690 30890 30660
In post 2026 AA/AO Black AA Undeclared 60 55 32530 30740
In post 2026 AA/AO Black AA Unknown 40 40 30420 30950
In post 2026 AA/AO Black AO Declared disabled 570 500 30380 29720
In post 2026 AA/AO Black AO Declared non-disabled 5770 5540 33020 31670
In post 2026 AA/AO Black AO Undeclared 235 210 32900 31470
In post 2026 AA/AO Black AO Unknown 450 425 29790 28500
In post 2026 AA/AO Mixed AA Declared disabled 55 50 28770 27770
In post 2026 AA/AO Mixed AA Declared non-disabled 135 125 29750 30660
In post 2026 AA/AO Mixed AA Undeclared 10 10 [c] [c]
In post 2026 AA/AO Mixed AA Unknown 20 20 [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).
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.
Ethnicity Self reported ethnicity. "Undeclared" accounts for employees who have actively declared that they do not want to disclose their ethnicity and "Unknown" accounts for employees who have not made an active declaration about their ethnicity.
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.
Disability Self reported disability.
"Undeclared" accounts for employees who have actively declared that they do not want to disclose their disability status and "Unknown" accounts for employees who have not made an active declaration about their disability status.
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).