Civil Service Statistics data browser (2026)

Data preview: All civil servants / Responsibility_level_grouped / Parent_department / Sexual_orientation / Region_london

Status Year Responsibility_level_grouped Parent_department Sexual_orientation Region_london Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2026 AA/AO Attorney General’s Departments Heterosexual / straight London 205 190 29020 28500
In post 2026 AA/AO Attorney General’s Departments Heterosexual / straight Outside London 705 640 27360 26700
In post 2026 AA/AO Attorney General’s Departments LGBO London 10 10 [c] [c]
In post 2026 AA/AO Attorney General’s Departments LGBO Outside London 70 70 27250 26700
In post 2026 AA/AO Attorney General’s Departments Undeclared London 15 15 [c] [c]
In post 2026 AA/AO Attorney General’s Departments Undeclared Outside London 35 30 27290 26700
In post 2026 AA/AO Attorney General’s Departments Unknown London 190 180 28440 28500
In post 2026 AA/AO Attorney General’s Departments Unknown Outside London 480 455 26790 26700
In post 2026 AA/AO Cabinet Office Heterosexual / straight London 55 55 34990 31640
In post 2026 AA/AO Cabinet Office Heterosexual / straight Outside London 195 175 27460 27410
In post 2026 AA/AO Cabinet Office LGBO London 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2026 AA/AO Cabinet Office LGBO Outside London 15 15 [c] [c]
In post 2026 AA/AO Cabinet Office Undeclared London 10 10 [c] [c]
In post 2026 AA/AO Cabinet Office Undeclared Outside London 15 15 [c] [c]
In post 2026 AA/AO Cabinet Office Unknown London 70 55 38870 41050
In post 2026 AA/AO Cabinet Office Unknown Outside London 15 15 [c] [c]
In post 2026 AA/AO Chancellor’s other departments Heterosexual / straight London [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2026 AA/AO Chancellor’s other departments LGBO London [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2026 AA/AO Charity Commission Heterosexual / straight London [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2026 AA/AO Charity Commission Heterosexual / straight Outside London [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).
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.
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".
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).