Civil Service Statistics data browser (2026)

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Status	Year	Responsibility_level_ungrouped	Profession_of_post	Region_ITL2	Region_ITL3	Headcount	FTE	Mean_salary	Median_salary
In post	2026	AA	Clinical	Hampshire and Isle of Wight	North Hampshire	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	AA	Clinical	Surrey, East and West Sussex	West Surrey	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	AA	Commercial	Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire	North Nottinghamshire	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	AA	Commercial	Eastern Scotland	Perth and Kinross, and Stirling	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	AA	Commercial	Unknown	Unknown	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	AA	Communications	Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire	Bedford	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	AA	Communications	Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire	Oxfordshire CC	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	AA	Communications	Cambridgeshire and Peterborough	Cambridgeshire CC	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	AA	Communications	Cumbria	Cumberland	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	AA	Communications	Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire	North Nottinghamshire	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	AA	Communications	Devon	Devon CC	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	AA	Communications	East Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire	East Riding of Yorkshire	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	AA	Communications	East Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire	Kingston upon Hull, City of	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	AA	Communications	Gloucestershire and Wiltshire	Wiltshire	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	AA	Communications	Greater Manchester	Manchester	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	AA	Communications	Hampshire and Isle of Wight	Isle of Wight	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	AA	Communications	Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire	Worcestershire CC	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	AA	Communications	Lancashire	Chorley and West Lancashire	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	AA	Communications	Lancashire	Mid Lancashire	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	AA	Communications	Leicestershire, Rutland and Northamptonshire	West Northamptonshire	[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).
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_ITL2	Workplace postcode data are used to derive geographical information using the International Territorial Level (ITL) classification standard.
	Following the UK’s withdrawal from the EU, a new UK-managed international statistical geography - International Territorial Levels (ITL) - was introduced from 1st January 2021, replacing the former NUTS classification. They align with international standards, enabling comparability both over time and internationally. To ensure continued alignment, the ITLs mirror the NUTS system. They also follow a similar review timetable - every three years.
	ITL 2 divides into Northern Ireland, counties in England (most grouped), groups of districts in Greater London, groups of unitary authorities in Wales, groups of council areas in Scotland.
Region_ITL3	Workplace postcode data are used to derive geographical information using the International Territorial Level (ITL) classification standard.
	Following the UK’s withdrawal from the EU, a new UK-managed international statistical geography - International Territorial Levels (ITL) - was introduced from 1st January 2021, replacing the former NUTS classification. They align with international standards, enabling comparability both over time and internationally. To ensure continued alignment, the ITLs mirror the NUTS system. They also follow a similar review timetable - every three years.
	ITL 3 divides into counties, unitary authorities, or districts in England (some grouped), groups of unitary authorities in Wales, groups of council areas in Scotland, groups of districts in Northern Ireland.
Profession_of_post	Professions relate to the post occupied by the person and are not dependent on qualifications the individual may have.
	Three bodies did not report any professions information for their employees. These are as follows: Scottish Forestry, Forestry and Land Scotland and Serious Fraud Office.
	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).