Civil Service Statistics data browser (2026)

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Status	Year	Sexual_orientation	Age	Responsibility_level_grouped	Headcount	FTE	Mean_salary	Median_salary
In post	2026	Heterosexual / straight	16-19	AA/AO	475	465	27880	27840
In post	2026	Heterosexual / straight	16-19	EO	110	110	31700	32070
In post	2026	Heterosexual / straight	16-19	G6/G7	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	Heterosexual / straight	16-19	SCS level	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	Heterosexual / straight	16-19	SEO/HEO	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	Heterosexual / straight	16-19	Unknown	25	25	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	Heterosexual / straight	20-29	AA/AO	15425	15030	30420	28020
In post	2026	Heterosexual / straight	20-29	EO	14195	13995	33720	32140
In post	2026	Heterosexual / straight	20-29	G6/G7	2800	2785	63230	62690
In post	2026	Heterosexual / straight	20-29	SCS level	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	Heterosexual / straight	20-29	SEO/HEO	13525	13450	42530	41980
In post	2026	Heterosexual / straight	20-29	Unknown	3790	3715	29850	27670
In post	2026	Heterosexual / straight	30-39	AA/AO	17255	16070	31250	28360
In post	2026	Heterosexual / straight	30-39	EO	22650	21560	34230	32140
In post	2026	Heterosexual / straight	30-39	G6/G7	16605	16165	66470	64150
In post	2026	Heterosexual / straight	30-39	SCS level	635	615	92660	88740
In post	2026	Heterosexual / straight	30-39	SEO/HEO	31135	30285	44200	43840
In post	2026	Heterosexual / straight	30-39	Unknown	4415	4125	34680	35130
In post	2026	Heterosexual / straight	40-49	AA/AO	16590	15035	30420	28020
In post	2026	Heterosexual / straight	40-49	EO	21340	19955	34200	32140
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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.
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.
Age	Age in 10 year bands. Age is calculated as at the reference date in each year (31st March), so entrants or leavers may have been up to one year younger at the date of exit or entry.
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).