Civil Service Statistics data browser (2026)

Data preview: All civil servants / Sexual_orientation / Parent_department / Organisation

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Status Year Sexual_orientation Parent_department Organisation Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight Attorney General’s Departments Attorney General’s Office 10 10 [c] [c]
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight Attorney General’s Departments Crown Prosecution Service 5485 5130 48580 44440
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight Attorney General’s Departments Government Legal Department 1970 1835 67470 67370
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight Attorney General’s Departments HM Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate 15 15 [c] [c]
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight Attorney General’s Departments Serious Fraud Office [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight Cabinet Office Cabinet Office (excl. agencies) 3720 3610 53300 47670
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight Cabinet Office Central Civil Service Fast Stream 60 60 37530 38000
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight Cabinet Office Crown Commercial Service 575 550 51550 50190
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight Cabinet Office Government Commercial Organisation 970 955 83640 77220
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight Cabinet Office Government Property Agency 370 365 59630 57890
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight Chancellor’s other departments Government Actuary’s Department 190 180 77880 76850
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight Chancellor’s other departments National Savings and Investments 205 205 58220 53530
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight Charity Commission Charity Commission 280 265 44200 38040
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight Competition and Markets Authority Competition and Markets Authority 780 755 70930 66170
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight Department for Business and Trade Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service 710 645 40640 36600
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight Department for Business and Trade Companies House 1490 1415 38030 30940
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight Department for Business and Trade Department for Business and Trade (excl. agencies) 3705 3625 57480 57510
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight Department for Business and Trade The Insolvency Service 1180 1115 41860 39850
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight Department for Culture, Media and Sport Department for Culture, Media and Sport 775 745 56800 58880
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight Department for Education Department for Education (excl. agencies) 5940 5685 52730 49000
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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.
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).