Civil Service Statistics data browser (2026)

Data preview: All civil servants / Sexual_orientation / Disability / Responsibility_level_ungrouped / Responsibility_level_grouped

Status Year Sexual_orientation Disability Responsibility_level_ungrouped Responsibility_level_grouped Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight Declared disabled AA AA/AO 1515 1325 28730 29260
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight Declared disabled AO AA/AO 11750 10245 29100 27840
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight Declared disabled EO EO 16490 14815 33500 32140
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight Declared disabled G6 G6/G7 1735 1665 79890 78880
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight Declared disabled G7 G6/G7 5385 5125 64030 63190
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight Declared disabled HEO SEO/HEO 8675 8165 40170 38920
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight Declared disabled SCS level SCS level 555 535 101700 93690
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight Declared disabled SEO SEO/HEO 6670 6345 49010 47670
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight Declared disabled Unknown Unknown 4025 3730 35080 31650
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight Declared non-disabled AA AA/AO 7275 6655 29000 29260
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight Declared non-disabled AO AA/AO 55505 50500 30480 28020
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight Declared non-disabled EO EO 69305 64390 33990 32140
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight Declared non-disabled G6 G6/G7 13805 13260 79850 78670
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight Declared non-disabled G7 G6/G7 34040 32725 64560 63570
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight Declared non-disabled HEO SEO/HEO 45190 43080 40530 38970
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight Declared non-disabled SCS level SCS level 4460 4320 102920 94960
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight Declared non-disabled SEO SEO/HEO 39665 38170 49370 47680
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight Declared non-disabled Unknown Unknown 13445 12575 34820 31650
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight Undeclared AA AA/AO 515 445 29480 30660
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight Undeclared AO AA/AO 3000 2665 30020 28020
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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.
Disability Self reported disability.
"Undeclared" accounts for employees who have actively declared that they do not want to disclose their disability status and "Unknown" accounts for employees who have not made an active declaration about their disability status.
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).