Civil Service Statistics data browser (2026)

Data preview: All civil servants / Sex / Sexual_orientation / Parent_department / Function_of_post

Status Year Sex Sexual_orientation Parent_department Function_of_post Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2026 Female Heterosexual / straight Attorney General’s Departments Analysis [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2026 Female Heterosexual / straight Attorney General’s Departments Commercial 25 25 [c] [c]
In post 2026 Female Heterosexual / straight Attorney General’s Departments Communications 30 30 [c] [c]
In post 2026 Female Heterosexual / straight Attorney General’s Departments Digital and Data 85 85 48410 44680
In post 2026 Female Heterosexual / straight Attorney General’s Departments Finance 85 75 43540 38000
In post 2026 Female Heterosexual / straight Attorney General’s Departments Legal 4715 4315 53390 56780
In post 2026 Female Heterosexual / straight Attorney General’s Departments No function [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2026 Female Heterosexual / straight Attorney General’s Departments People 180 175 46060 39890
In post 2026 Female Heterosexual / straight Attorney General’s Departments Project Delivery 55 50 50850 45600
In post 2026 Female Heterosexual / straight Attorney General’s Departments Property 10 10 [c] [c]
In post 2026 Female Heterosexual / straight Attorney General’s Departments Security 40 35 39730 38000
In post 2026 Female Heterosexual / straight Attorney General’s Departments Unknown [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2026 Female Heterosexual / straight Cabinet Office Analysis 50 50 56340 62990
In post 2026 Female Heterosexual / straight Cabinet Office Commercial 895 865 68180 65050
In post 2026 Female Heterosexual / straight Cabinet Office Communications 165 165 53790 48520
In post 2026 Female Heterosexual / straight Cabinet Office Counter Fraud 45 40 51650 44550
In post 2026 Female Heterosexual / straight Cabinet Office Debt 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2026 Female Heterosexual / straight Cabinet Office Digital and Data 205 200 55560 50190
In post 2026 Female Heterosexual / straight Cabinet Office Finance 30 30 48510 41710
In post 2026 Female Heterosexual / straight Cabinet Office Grants [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).
Parent_department Government Department, total figures for both Ministerial and Non-Ministerial Departments include all of their Executive Agencies.
Function_of_post Functions relate to the post occupied by the person and are not dependent on qualifications the individual may have.
Of the 21 bodies under the Scottish Government, 16 did not report any functions information for their employees.
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.
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.
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).