Civil Service Statistics data browser (2026)

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Status	Year	Sex	Responsibility_level_ungrouped	Parent_department	Organisation	Headcount	FTE	Mean_salary	Median_salary
In post	2026	Female	AA	Attorney General’s Departments	Crown Prosecution Service	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	Female	AA	Attorney General’s Departments	Serious Fraud Office	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	Female	AA	Department for Business and Trade	Companies House	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	Female	AA	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs	Animal and Plant Health Agency	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	Female	AA	Department for Science, Innovation and Technology	Met Office	20	20	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	Female	AA	Department for Transport	Department for Transport (excl. agencies)	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	Female	AA	Department for Transport	Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency	210	145	24360	24350
In post	2026	Female	AA	Department for Transport	Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	Female	AA	Department for Transport	Vehicle Certification Agency	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	Female	AA	Department for Work and Pensions	Department for Work and Pensions (excl. agencies)	90	60	27770	27770
In post	2026	Female	AA	Department of Health and Social Care	Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	Female	AA	Department of Health and Social Care	UK Health Security Agency	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	Female	AA	HM Revenue and Customs	HM Revenue and Customs (excl. agencies)	285	195	27820	27770
In post	2026	Female	AA	Home Office	Home Office	205	165	26210	24510
In post	2026	Female	AA	Ministry of Defence	Defence Equipment and Support	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	Female	AA	Ministry of Defence	Defence Science and Technology Laboratory	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	Female	AA	Ministry of Defence	Ministry of Defence (excl. agencies)	770	715	28440	27650
In post	2026	Female	AA	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government	Planning Inspectorate	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	Female	AA	Ministry of Justice	Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	Female	AA	Ministry of Justice	HM Courts and Tribunals Service	1040	850	25270	25010
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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.
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).