Civil Service Statistics data browser (2026)

Data preview: All civil servants / Responsibility_level_ungrouped / Region_london / Ethnicity

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Status Year Responsibility_level_ungrouped Region_london Ethnicity Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2026 AA London Asian 200 185 31130 28630
In post 2026 AA London Black 330 315 33460 34800
In post 2026 AA London Mixed 40 35 33450 34800
In post 2026 AA London Other ethnicity 20 20 [c] [c]
In post 2026 AA London Undeclared 35 35 31140 28630
In post 2026 AA London Unknown 205 195 32060 34800
In post 2026 AA London White 460 415 31580 30950
In post 2026 AA Outside London Asian 435 390 28390 27770
In post 2026 AA Outside London Black 555 540 29560 30660
In post 2026 AA Outside London Mixed 180 165 28760 29430
In post 2026 AA Outside London Other ethnicity 50 45 29920 30660
In post 2026 AA Outside London Undeclared 305 270 28300 27770
In post 2026 AA Outside London Unknown 2780 2545 28890 29260
In post 2026 AA Outside London White 9845 8825 28690 29260
In post 2026 AA Unknown Asian [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2026 AA Unknown Black [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2026 AA Unknown Mixed [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2026 AA Unknown Other ethnicity [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2026 AA Unknown Undeclared [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2026 AA Unknown Unknown [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_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".
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.
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).