Civil Service Statistics data browser (2026)

Data preview: All civil servants / Sex / Region_ITL1 / Responsibility_level_grouped / Organisation

Status Year Sex Region_ITL1 Responsibility_level_grouped Organisation Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2026 Female East (England) AA/AO Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2026 Female East (England) AA/AO Animal and Plant Health Agency 10 10 [c] [c]
In post 2026 Female East (England) AA/AO Cabinet Office (excl. agencies) [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2026 Female East (England) AA/AO Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2026 Female East (England) AA/AO Crown Prosecution Service 115 105 28040 28500
In post 2026 Female East (England) AA/AO Defence Equipment and Support 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2026 Female East (England) AA/AO Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (excl. agencies) [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2026 Female East (England) AA/AO Department for Work and Pensions (excl. agencies) 490 405 28910 29720
In post 2026 Female East (England) AA/AO Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2026 Female East (England) AA/AO Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency 10 5 [c] [c]
In post 2026 Female East (England) AA/AO HM Courts and Tribunals Service 460 375 25800 25580
In post 2026 Female East (England) AA/AO HM Land Registry 40 35 26810 26810
In post 2026 Female East (England) AA/AO HM Prison and Probation Service 1250 1145 32930 30660
In post 2026 Female East (England) AA/AO HM Revenue and Customs (excl. agencies) 70 60 28020 28020
In post 2026 Female East (England) AA/AO HM Treasury (excl. agencies) 10 5 [c] [c]
In post 2026 Female East (England) AA/AO Health and Safety Executive 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2026 Female East (England) AA/AO Home Office 340 290 29520 27550
In post 2026 Female East (England) AA/AO Legal Aid Agency [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2026 Female East (England) AA/AO Maritime and Coastguard Agency [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2026 Female East (England) AA/AO Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency [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).
Organisation Executive Agencies, Ministerial and Non-Ministerial Departments, Crown Non-departmental Public Bodies.
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_ITL1 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 1 divides into Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, and the 9 statistical regions of England.
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.
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).