Civil Service Statistics data browser (2026)

Data preview: All civil servants / Sexual_orientation / Parent_department / Disability / Profession_of_post

Status Year Sexual_orientation Parent_department Disability Profession_of_post Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight Attorney General’s Departments Declared disabled Commercial 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight Attorney General’s Departments Declared disabled Communications 10 10 [c] [c]
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight Attorney General’s Departments Declared disabled Cyber [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight Attorney General’s Departments Declared disabled Digital and Data 30 30 45870 44390
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight Attorney General’s Departments Declared disabled Finance 15 15 [c] [c]
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight Attorney General’s Departments Declared disabled Human Resources 40 40 47310 39890
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight Attorney General’s Departments Declared disabled Knowledge and Information Management 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight Attorney General’s Departments Declared disabled Legal 575 520 66050 63850
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight Attorney General’s Departments Declared disabled Operational Delivery 405 370 32830 32270
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight Attorney General’s Departments Declared disabled Other [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight Attorney General’s Departments Declared disabled Policy 15 15 [c] [c]
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight Attorney General’s Departments Declared disabled Project Delivery 15 15 [c] [c]
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight Attorney General’s Departments Declared disabled Property 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight Attorney General’s Departments Declared disabled Risk Management [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight Attorney General’s Departments Declared disabled Security 10 10 [c] [c]
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight Attorney General’s Departments Declared disabled Social Research [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight Attorney General’s Departments Declared disabled Statistics [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight Attorney General’s Departments Declared disabled Unknown [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight Attorney General’s Departments Declared non-disabled Commercial 25 25 [c] [c]
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight Attorney General’s Departments Declared non-disabled Communications 40 35 46940 45600
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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.
Profession_of_post Professions relate to the post occupied by the person and are not dependent on qualifications the individual may have.
Three bodies did not report any professions information for their employees. These are as follows: Scottish Forestry, Forestry and Land Scotland and Serious Fraud Office.
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.
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).