Civil Service Statistics data browser (2026)

Data preview: All civil servants / Responsibility_level_ungrouped / Sexual_orientation / Organisation / Parent_department

Status Year Responsibility_level_ungrouped Sexual_orientation Organisation Parent_department Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2026 AA Heterosexual / straight Accountant in Bankruptcy Scottish Government 10 10 [c] [c]
In post 2026 AA Heterosexual / straight Animal and Plant Health Agency Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2026 AA Heterosexual / straight Companies House Department for Business and Trade [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2026 AA Heterosexual / straight Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority Ministry of Justice 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2026 AA Heterosexual / straight Crown Prosecution Service Attorney General’s Departments [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2026 AA Heterosexual / straight Defence Equipment and Support Ministry of Defence [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2026 AA Heterosexual / straight Defence Science and Technology Laboratory Ministry of Defence [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2026 AA Heterosexual / straight Department for Transport (excl. agencies) Department for Transport [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2026 AA Heterosexual / straight Department for Work and Pensions (excl. agencies) Department for Work and Pensions 125 95 27770 27770
In post 2026 AA Heterosexual / straight Disclosure Scotland Scottish Government 90 80 29050 29260
In post 2026 AA Heterosexual / straight Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency Department for Transport 185 140 24360 24350
In post 2026 AA Heterosexual / straight Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency Department for Transport [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2026 AA Heterosexual / straight Education Scotland Scottish Government 20 20 [c] [c]
In post 2026 AA Heterosexual / straight Food Standards Scotland Scottish Government [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2026 AA Heterosexual / straight Forestry and Land Scotland Scottish Government [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2026 AA Heterosexual / straight HM Courts and Tribunals Service Ministry of Justice 1110 930 25300 25010
In post 2026 AA Heterosexual / straight HM Prison and Probation Service Ministry of Justice 4615 4275 31050 30660
In post 2026 AA Heterosexual / straight HM Revenue and Customs (excl. agencies) HM Revenue and Customs 190 145 27820 27770
In post 2026 AA Heterosexual / straight Home Office Home Office 350 310 26720 24510
In post 2026 AA Heterosexual / straight Legal Aid Agency Ministry of Justice 15 15 [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.
Organisation Executive Agencies, Ministerial and Non-Ministerial Departments, Crown Non-departmental Public Bodies.
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.
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).