Civil Service Statistics data browser (2026)

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

Status Year Sex Disability Responsibility_level_grouped Responsibility_level_ungrouped Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2026 Female Declared disabled AA/AO AA 1075 910 28570 29260
In post 2026 Female Declared disabled AA/AO AO 9840 8275 28560 27840
In post 2026 Female Declared disabled EO EO 13795 12100 33220 32140
In post 2026 Female Declared disabled G6/G7 G6 1300 1235 79140 77660
In post 2026 Female Declared disabled G6/G7 G7 4330 4090 63740 63050
In post 2026 Female Declared disabled SCS level SCS level 395 375 98940 92710
In post 2026 Female Declared disabled SEO/HEO HEO 7240 6760 39750 38770
In post 2026 Female Declared disabled SEO/HEO SEO 5310 5020 48480 47310
In post 2026 Female Declared disabled Unknown Unknown 3975 3675 34900 31920
In post 2026 Female Declared non-disabled AA/AO AA 4290 3755 28630 29260
In post 2026 Female Declared non-disabled AA/AO AO 38000 32670 29150 27840
In post 2026 Female Declared non-disabled EO EO 47650 42690 33470 32140
In post 2026 Female Declared non-disabled G6/G7 G6 8035 7610 79490 78210
In post 2026 Female Declared non-disabled G6/G7 G7 20655 19560 64260 63340
In post 2026 Female Declared non-disabled SCS level SCS level 2600 2480 100910 93510
In post 2026 Female Declared non-disabled SEO/HEO HEO 29660 27835 40110 38920
In post 2026 Female Declared non-disabled SEO/HEO SEO 24755 23485 48970 47670
In post 2026 Female Declared non-disabled Unknown Unknown 11475 10680 34710 31650
In post 2026 Female Undeclared AA/AO AA 425 360 29410 30660
In post 2026 Female Undeclared AA/AO AO 2935 2515 29140 27840
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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.
Sex Self reported sex.
"Unknown" accounts for employees who were recorded with an unknown sex.
Figures on sex presented here are based on management information provided by departments, which records the ‘legal sex’ of civil servants. ‘Legal sex’ does not align with ‘sex’ as defined by The Equality Act 2010.
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).