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Status Year Sex Region_london Responsibility_level_ungrouped Responsibility_level_grouped Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2026 Female London AA AA/AO 615 545 31840 31070
In post 2026 Female London AO AA/AO 5760 5115 32010 31470
In post 2026 Female London EO EO 11585 10670 36910 37020
In post 2026 Female London G6 G6/G7 5230 4945 80050 79480
In post 2026 Female London G7 G6/G7 11680 11210 65770 64820
In post 2026 Female London HEO SEO/HEO 10335 9950 42330 42540
In post 2026 Female London SCS level SCS level 2280 2155 102510 93690
In post 2026 Female London SEO SEO/HEO 9520 9220 50650 50310
In post 2026 Female London Unknown Unknown 1930 1805 38790 35900
In post 2026 Female Outside London AA AA/AO 6830 5930 28370 29260
In post 2026 Female Outside London AO AA/AO 58200 50260 28700 27840
In post 2026 Female Outside London EO EO 66025 59240 33000 32140
In post 2026 Female Outside London G6 G6/G7 6360 6055 78980 77460
In post 2026 Female Outside London G7 G6/G7 20845 19630 63250 61680
In post 2026 Female Outside London HEO SEO/HEO 38370 35945 39400 38770
In post 2026 Female Outside London SCS level SCS level 1465 1410 101830 95540
In post 2026 Female Outside London SEO SEO/HEO 29470 27860 48250 46630
In post 2026 Female Outside London Unknown Unknown 16140 14935 33970 31650
In post 2026 Female Overseas AO AA/AO 30 30 39000 39470
In post 2026 Female Overseas EO EO 150 150 41410 41270
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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.
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".
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).